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.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
