A Brooklyn teacher who was fired after admitting she took a male student to her home and to a motel room wants her job back — and she wants to sue the city for damages because of how it conducted the disciplinary hearing that led to her dismissal last year.
Claudia Tillery, 42, is a former teacher who was acquitted of raping a sixth-grade male student and supplying him with drugs and alcohol. She now wants her job back.
Claudia Tillery, 46, argues in court papers filed Tuesday that Department of Education officials violated her rights by using sealed investigative files to get her canned.
The files were sealed after a jury acquitted Tillery in April 2014 of providing a student drugs and alcohol and raping him when she was a teacher at MS 35 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Her suit to get her dismissal overturned is pending.
The city law and education departments had no immediate comment.
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