Atlanta, Georgia: Former teacher Jeff Corkill sues district after he's given poor review

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    Two Protesters Arrested at ICE Field Office in Atlanta

    Two activists were arrested at a “Never Again” action at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office in Atlanta on Monday, July 15, 2019. Calvin Runnels, a Rhodes Scholar from Georgia Tech and an openly transgender male, was arrested at the ICE protest as a hundred people blocked the ICE driveway. After his release from jail, Runnels, who is Jewish, wrote a letter to fellow Jews in the United States to join him in fighting the demonization of immigrants and to demand the closure of all concentration camps holding children and asylum seekers. “I have watched with disgust and ...


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    Ex-Gwinnett Teacher Sues For Bad Evaluations After Protest Arrest

    A former Gwinnett teacher who says his work evaluations suffered because he was arrested at a protest against migrant-detention centers is suing the district to have those evaluations retracted. Attorneys with the Georgia Association of Educators announced Tuesday they had filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of GAE member Jeff Corkill, a longtime history teacher at Brookwood High School in Snellville who left the district in 2020. The emailed news release said that the Gwinnett school system is being sued "for violation of Mr. Corkill's rights of free speech and association." In response, a spokesperson for Gwinnett County ...


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    Former teacher sues district after he's given poor performance review after arrest at a protest

    A passionate protest in July 2019 outside of the Atlanta Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office ended with Jeff Corkill, a then social studies teacher at Brookwood High School, arrested along with other protesters. A CBS46 News crew was there that day and captured him participating in the protest. Corkill now says he was given a poor performance review at Brookwood the following school year. He believes the district gave that review because he attended the protest and was arrested. Now he is suing the district, his former school's principal and the district superintendent. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on ...


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