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The founding principal of the city's only Arabic-language public school will not sue the Department of Education, she said Tuesday, despite a ruling from a federal commission that the city discriminated against her by forcing her to resign in 2007.
The former principal, Debbie Almontaser, filed a complaint last year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which later said that the department "succumbed to the very bias that creation of the school was intended to dispel, and a small segment of the public succeeded in imposing its prejudices on D.O.E. as an employer."
Though the findings by the commission are nonbinding, the letter was viewed as giving Ms. Almontaser backing to file a federal lawsuit, which could have resulted in a ruling for "millions of dollars," her lawyer said. But Ms. Almontaser concluded that going through a lawsuit that could take years would not be worth it.