Matter of Russo v. New York City Dept. of Educ.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Geoffrey D. Wright, J.), entered January 14, 2013, which, in this proceeding pursuant to Education Law § 3020-a (5) and CPLR 7511, to vacate an arbitration award finding petitioner guilty of incompetence and imposing a penalty of termination, denied the petition and granted respondent’s cross motion to dismiss the petition, modified, on the law, to deny the cross motion, and to grant the petition to the extent of remanding the matter to respondent, New York City Department of Education (DOE), for imposition of a lesser penalty, and otherwise affirmed,…