# @newsday on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYhyH18D80X
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65728955-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-19T17:01:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

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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.”

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