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SFUSD staff recommend termination; teacher who identified herself as Marta Valejo Kaufman apologizes and disputes key facts
Summary
SFUSD general counsel summarized staff recommendations to terminate a second‑grade bilingual teacher for alleged misconduct during an April classroom incident; the teacher, who identified herself as Marta Valejo Kaufman, disputed parts of the account, apologized and asked to return to work while the board voted to suspend her pending a hearing.
San Francisco — School district lawyers told the Board of Education on July 29 that staff recommend terminating a permanent certificated SFUSD employee and placing her on unpaid suspension pending a hearing after an April 4 classroom incident involving a second‑grade student with an individualized education program (IEP).
General counsel Manuel Martinez summarized the district’s account: staff say a paraprofessional used a trained safety hold during a behavioral episode, and that the teacher — described in staff materials as "Miss Vallejo" — left students unattended in the hallway, approached the restrained student, was spat at, wiped spit from her mouth and then, according to staff, spat deliberately into the student’s face a second time and held the student’s face by the cheeks. Martinez…
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