Schools
Northbrook Woman Settles with Deerfield School District
Deerfield's School District 109 agreed to pay Stephanie Horwitz $65,000 after she was fired last year for missing about two years of school.
After missing about two years of school, Northbrook's Stephanie Horwitz will receive $65,000 in a settlement from Deerfield School District 109, who fired her last year, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Patch previously reported that the D109 school board voted to dismiss Horwitz, a tenured teacher, in November of 2012.
Horwitz told the Chicago Tribune she plans to "start a special educating consulting business that focuses on pre-kindergarten through college-age students."
"I have a disability and the School District was not willing to provide reasonable accommodations," Horwitz previously told Patch.
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