Nampa Charter School, Inc. v. DeLaPaz

TROUT, Chief Justice.

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FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Nampa Charter School, Inc., (NCS), is a charter school organized under I.C. § 33- 5200, the Public Charter School Act of 1998, and is governed by the Board of Trustees of Nampa School District No. 131 (NSD # 131).

NCS hired Ersilia DeLaPaz (DeLaPaz) and assigned her bookkeeping and receptionist duties. DeLaPaz enrolled her child, who suffers from Down’s syndrome, in NCS’s special education program. After DeLaPaz had been employed by NCS for a few months, School Administrator Rebecca Stall-cop (Stallcop) began to feel DeLaPaz was not…