The deadline for a resolution to a threatened lawsuit by a Jeffers Pond teacher has passed, but it is unclear if a resolution has been reached.
Attorneys for Brooke Zahn, a fourth-grade teacher at the elementary school, imposed a deadline of Feb. 28 for a proposed deal to avoid litigation. The deal requires back pay and a public, formal apology from Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools for her seven-day suspension after she posted an image in a Facebook group with the caption: “A family that is deported together stays together.”
James Dickey, a lawyer with the Upper Midwest Law Center, said in a letter to the district that “absent acceptance of [the] offer, we expect to promptly move forward with a lawsuit.”
As of March 5, representatives of the Upper Midwest Law Center declined to confirm if Zahn would be moving forward with a lawsuit, or if the school district had accepted the terms of the proposed deal.
Communications director Kristi Mussman told the News Compass on behalf of the district that PLSAS does not comment on “pending or threatened litigation.”
The school board’s next regular meeting is March 10.