Denhoff v. Mamaroneck Union Free School District

Following a hearing, the petitioner, a tenured guidance counselor, was found guilty of 14 charges of misconduct, and 27 specifications thereunder. The various charges were based on the petitioner’s conduct over the course of three years, which spanned the entire time of her tenure, establishing a pattern of harassing, demeaning, and continuous bullying of her less senior colleagues, as well as efforts to sabotage the ability of certain colleagues to gain tenure.

Education Law § 3020-a (5) limits judicial review of an *998arbitrator’s determination, made after compulsory arbitration, to the grounds…