Atlanta teacher suspended after fight with a co-worker

An Atlanta elementary school teacher has been suspended without pay after she was accused of scratching and bruising a co-worker’s face during an Oct. 14 disagreement over carpooling to a professional development event.

The Atlanta Board of Education on Dec. 2 upheld a tribunal’s recommendation to suspend Elaine Nevers-Williams from teaching at M. Agnes Jones Elementary in west Atlanta.

The tribunal wrote that Nevers-Williams should be reassigned and put on probation after her suspension ends Dec. 31, a recommendation that contradicted Superintendent Erroll Davis’ request that she be fired, according to documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.