Pre-Trial Diversion Donna Valentine & Roth Nordin, Stamford, Connecticut (arrested Oct 2014) [failure to report]

Assistant superintendent to resign in Stamford High case

STAMFORD -- The two principals who were criminally charged in the Stamford High School teacher-student sex case will be fired, pending a school board vote, and a high-level district administrator will resign, the superintendent's office announced Tuesday ...

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Assistant superintendent to resign in Stamford High case

The two principals who were criminally charged in the Stamford High School teacher-student sex case will be fired, pending a school board vote, and a high-level district administrator will resign, the superintendent's office announced Tuesday evening. Former Principal Donna Valentine and former Assistant Principal Roth Nordin will be fired, pending a vote of the Board of Education. Assistant Superintendent Michael Fernandes is the most senior administrator to be disciplined. He will resign from his post, superintendent Winifred Hamilton's statement said. Stephen Falcone, the district's human resources director, will be suspended for one non-consecutive month - four week-long suspensions over as ...

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Administrator Firings Expected in Stamford Teacher Sex Case; Resignation Expected for An Assistant Superintendent

Disciplinary actions against several Stamford school employees who failed to report a Stamford High School teacher was having an affair with a student will include the firing of the school's two former principals and the resignation of an assistant school superintendent. If the Board of Education approves, the former Stamford High School principals Donna Valentine and Roth Nordin, who were arrested for failing to report to authorities that former teacher Danielle Watkins was having an affair with a student will be fired, according to The Advocate. Assistant Superintendent Michael Fernandes is expected to resign, according to the report. Superintendent Winifred ...

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Stamford High School terminates principal for covering up student-teacher relationship

A principal has been fired for her role in covering up the sexual relationship between a student and his teacher. The Board of Education in Stamford voted 8-0 to terminate Donna Valentine. Valentine and the assistant principal, Roth Nordin, were arrested in October 2014 for not reporting the inappropriate sexual relationship between English teacher Danielle Watkins, 32, and a 17-year-old male student. Police have also said that she provided that student and another student marijuana. The male student told police that teachers and administrators knew of his relationship with Watkins as far back as December 2013. And, he says, school ...

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http://fox61.com/2016/01/26/stamfor...for-covering-up-student-teacher-relationship/

 

Stamford principal who covered up student-teacher relationship suing school board

A former Stamford High School principal is suing the Stamford Board of Education to get her job back. Donna Valentine’s lawyers filed suit yesterday. She was fired following a report done on the management of the high school following the arrest of former teacher charged and convicted for sexual assault involving a male student. The Board of Education in Stamford voted 8-0 to terminate Valentine after she and the assistant principal, Roth Nordin, were arrested in October 2014 for not reporting the inappropriate sexual relationship between English teacher Danielle Watkins, 32, and a 17-year-old male student. Police have also said ...

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http://fox61.com/2016/02/24/stamfor...dent-teacher-relationship-suing-school-board/

 

Stamford High School teacher wants answers

Fear holds people back when their instinct is to act, but knowledge can dispel fear. That’s the thinking of Stamford High School social studies teacher Kevin Barry, who discovered something he says would have empowered educators during a leadership crisis at the school about a year ago. It’s that no administrator can stop teachers from speaking out about that administrator by threatening a lawsuit. It’s that teachers, like all citizens, may voice opinions under the protection of the First Amendment, which guarantees free expression as a tenet of democratic government. Barry said he wishes he knew that in December 2014, ...

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Settlement Reached in Stamford Teacher Sex Abuse Incident

The former Stamford High School student that had sexual relations with an English teacher was awarded a $750,000 settlement with the city. The teen's identity is being protected because he is the victim of sexual abuse, according to the Stamford Advocate. The identity of another student who Danielle Watkins supplied marijauna to during 2013 is also protected. "This past week we were able to achieve a settlement of a claim for sexual misconduct against a municipality for $750,000.00, total value of 1,108,921.00 for all claims," Law firm Papcsy Jansov Roche wrote on its Facebook page. The firm said it strives ...

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Settlement Reached in Stamford Teacher Sex Abuse Incident

The former Stamford High School student that had sexual relations with an English teacher was awarded a $750,000 settlement with the city. The teen's identity is being protected because he is the victim of sexual abuse, according to the Stamford Advocate. The identity of another student who Danielle Watkins supplied marijauna to during 2013 is also protected. "This past week we were able to achieve a settlement of a claim for sexual misconduct against a municipality for $750,000.00, total value of 1,108,921.00 for all claims," Law firm Papcsy Jansov Roche wrote on its Facebook page.

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http://patch.com/connecticut/stamford/settlement-reached-stamford-teacher-sex-abuse-incident-1

 

Charges dismissed against principals in Stamford High sex case

A little more than two years after former Stamford High School Principal Donna Valentine had been arrested for failing to report an illicit sexual affair between a teacher and student that rocked the school system, a Stamford judge on Monday dismissed a charge of failing to report the months long affair to authorities. Valentine appeared with her attorney Ryan O’Neil before Judge Gary White, who dismissed the charge against her. Valentine’s former Assistant Principal Roth Nordin, who like Valentine was also charged and granted participation in the same court diversionary program for first-time offenders, had her misdemeanor charge of failing ...

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Valentine claims former Stamford superintendent made threatening phone call

Two months after she was charged with failing to report an illicit sexual affair between a teacher and student, Donna Valentine says in a lawsuit against the Board of Education that she received a threatening phone call from her superintendent. Winifred Hamilton, the former schools chief, “went on a tirade” during a phone conversation with Valentine on Dec. 3, 2014 after learning the Stamford High School principal implicated her in an interview with The Advocate, according to an appeal brief recently filed as part of Valentine’s lawsuit against the school board. The former principal, who’s trying to get her job ...

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Valentine claims former Stamford superintendent made threatening phone call

Two months after she was charged with failing to report an illicit sexual affair between a teacher and student, Donna Valentine says in a lawsuit against the Board of Education that she received a threatening phone call from her superintendent. Winifred Hamilton, the former schools chief, “went on a tirade” during a phone conversation with Valentine on Dec. 3, 2014 after learning the Stamford High School principal implicated her in an interview with The Advocate, according to an appeal brief recently filed as part of Valentine’s lawsuit against the school board. The former principal, who’s trying to get her job ...

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