"Grossmont Union High School District will pay a former administrator more than $700,000 and her lawyers nearly $500,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was demoted and effectively fired because she is a lesbian. Rose Tagnesi had sued last year, saying she was forced out of the district's top special-education job after more than a decade by an anti-LGBTQ+ majority of the school board."
"Tagnesi was demoted to a classroom teaching job early last year, after what she described as a secret investigation into a 2020 incident at Santana High School. She had served as the district's special-ed director since 2010. That incident in which a student left school grounds, then went missing for five days during which she was trafficked also led to demotions for other administrators, an internal investigation and a lawsuit by the student's family."
Grossmont Union High School District agreed to pay Rose Tagnesi more than $700,000 and her lawyers nearly $500,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging she was demoted and effectively fired because she is a lesbian. Tagnesi served as the district's special-education director since 2010 and was demoted to a classroom teaching job after a secret investigation into a 2020 Santana High School incident. The 2020 incident, in which a student was trafficked after leaving campus, led to demotions, an internal investigation and a family lawsuit that settled for $400,000 in 2023. The district later reopened its investigation with an outside attorney whom Tagnesi alleged was aligned with an anti-LGBTQ+ board majority. The lawsuit alleges the board engaged in a broader discriminatory campaign that included banning LGBTQ+ books and ending a contract with a mental-health provider that offered specialized services to LGBTQ+ people.
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