Pauline Facciano, a former teacher in the Mountain View Whisman School District, has filed a lawsuit against the district claiming that former Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph and other administrators manipulated special education placements to fraudulently acquire state funds. Facciano contends she was terminated for advocating the reassessment of two Latino students incorrectly categorized as having special needs. The lawsuit alleges a scheme to ‘warehouse’ students in special education for additional funding, which was misappropriated for luxuries like massage services and expensive cigars and food.
"By doing so, Kobata and Ghysels were able to please the superintendent by providing him with additional, misappropriated funds for use in purchasing luxuries such as retained massage therapists, expensive Cuban cigars, expensive food and travel, etc.," Facciano's lawyer, Stanley Apps, said in the brief.
"These two students were bright, verbal and eager to learn," Facciano said in her lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in September 2021.
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