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Hundreds of students, parents and staff urge Wayne board to reinstate teacher after nonrenewal
Summary
An extended public-comment period focused on the nonrenewal of Lafayette teacher Rachel Hoffbower, with dozens of students, parents, colleagues and union officials testifying to her classroom and extracurricular impact and calling for transparency and reconsideration.
An unusually large public turnout at the Wayne Township Public School District meeting on May 1 pressed the board to reconsider the decision not to renew Lafayette teacher Rachel Hoffbower's contract.
Don De Pasqual, a Lafayette colleague, called Hoffbower's nonrenewal "a deeply flawed and damaging" decision and said it was not part of the reduction-in-force process. "After hard years of hard work, dedication and effective summative scores from tenure Wayne principals, how is it possible that Rachel Hoffbower's contract would receive a summative score to warrant a nonrenewal?" he asked.
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