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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jul 31, 2021, 12:35 AM Jul 2021

Vice Principal Fired For Affair On Campus Accuses Her Union Of Failing To Defend Her [View all]

The Hawaii Labor Relations Board this week will consider a case involving a public elementary school principal and vice principal who were fired in 2018 after they were accused of having sexual relations on campus during an extramarital affair.

Erin Kusumoto, the former vice principal of Pearl City Highlands Elementary School, filed a prohibited practice complaint against the Hawaii Government Employees Association last year after the union refused to take her case to arbitration to fight her firing.

She is also separately challenging the actions of state Superintendent of Schools Christina Kishimoto in the firing because Kusumoto contends she was terminated without proper cause, and was punished too severely.

Kishimoto wrote in Kusumoto’s termination letter that a 2018 investigation found that “there is sufficient evidence to conclude that VP Kusumoto inappropriately engaged in conduct of a sexual nature and/or sexual relations with Principal Nakasato on the PCHES campus before, during and after work hours.”

Read more: https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/07/vice-principal-who-had-affair-on-campus-accuses-her-union-of-failing-to-defend-her/

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