Matter of Vagianos v. City of New York

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Margaret A. Chan, J.), entered May 15, 2015, which denied the petition to vacate an arbitration award terminating petitioner’s employment as a tenured school teacher, and granted respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In light of the hearing officer’s findings that petitioner, a teacher of special-needs students who had previously been disciplined for verbal abuse of one student and corporal punishment of a student confined to a wheelchair, made denigrating comments about the students’…