Fairfax County Public Schools’ fact-finding investigation into allegations a high school staffer facilitated and funded abortions for students found the accusations untrue and largely based on statements that were misinterpreted, mistranslated, taken out of context or, in some cases, knowingly fabricated.
In a letter to Centreville High School staff and families, FCPS superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid wrote, “We have found no credible evidence of any actual wrongdoing by school staff or administrators.”
The troubling allegations made by a teacher against a Centreville High School social worker first were reported by a conservative blogger in August. The school district hired a law firm to investigate, and Gov. Glenn Youngkin asked Virginia State Police to do the same.
Zenaida Perez, a teacher of English for students of other languages (ESOL) at Centreville High, said in May 2022, a 17-year-old student told her a school social worker helped her get an abortion and paid for it.
Perez says she first told the school principal in May 2022. Later, she alleged he engaged in a cover up.
Perez says she was targeted for harassment because of her disclosure, saying that was why she decided three years later to go public with her story.
But the law firm FCPS hired concluded the teacher’s allegations are untrue.
Perez filed a defamation lawsuit after the law firm hired by FCPS previously reported her claims were “likely false and fabricated.”
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