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Portland Public Schools admits retaliation against teacher who spoke out on sexual misconduct; will pay for lost wages

February 23, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

OregonLive
By Bethany Barnes
February 12, 2018

Portland Public Schools retaliated against a substitute teacher for reporting sexual misconduct by one of its employees, a district investigation has found.

A human resources investigation found Caprice, who has asked to only be identified by her first name, was iced out of substitute teaching positions because she reported to the district in 2012 that then-teacher Mitch Whitehurst had demanded oral sex from her and a friend when they were students in the 1980s.

Read the full article at the OregonLive website here.