The superintendent backed out of a planned retirement last year after the school district offered the job to someone else.
school district voted earlier this month to pay the now-former superintendent $400,000 to settle her lawsuit and buy out her contract.Armen McOmber, an attorney representing Mortimer, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mortimer alleged an “overwhelmingly toxic and hostile work environment” in her lawsuit filed June 7 in Bergen County Superior Court.
Westwood Regional School District serves roughly 2,785 students in Westwood and Washington Township in Bergen County, according to state education data. If the board did not settle, Mortimer would have been owed her $257,000 salary for this year and a roughly 2.5% salary increase for next year, school district business administrator Keith Rosado said. The lawsuit would have also remained pending.
“I don’t think we’re going to go, or need to go, in the avenue of sending out a full search, so we have some options,” said Garcia.The settlement caps a months-long dispute involving Mortimer and the board of education.
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