The Plainview-Old Bethpage school board is asking a Nassau judge to vacate a hearing officer’s decision allowing a suspended principal found guilty of touching a staffer's buttocks to return to work, according to the district’s petition. The district had filed disciplinary charges against Karen Heitner, a tenured principal at Pasadena Elementary School in Plainview, and sought to fire her. State-appointed hearing officer James Brown found the principal guilty of five charges and imposed a penalty of a one-month unpaid suspension, beginning May 6. The school board's petition, filed in state Supreme Court, seeks a court order to throw out Brown’s decision, which the school district’s attorney wrote was “arbitrary, capricious and irrational.” Link in bio for more. (Photo: LinkedIn) . . . #longisland #longislandny #plainviewoldbethpage #nassaucounty #plainview