DCPS agrees to reinstate, pay $450k to fired blind teachers

D.C. Public Schools has agreed to reinstate and pay more than $450,000 in back wages to two blind teachers fired in 2008. Fred Kamara and Denise Hamilton, who taught visually impaired children, have said they will accept positions within the school system, but have not yet been placed or given the three years’ salary owed them.

Fred Lewis, a spokesman for Acting Chancellor Kaya Henderson, confirmed that DCPS agreed to reinstate and offer back wages to Kamara before an arbitrator could make a ruling between the school system and The Washington Teachers’ Union.