In a complaint filed by Attorney Kate Ferlic, former Wagon Mound superintendent, Sheryl McNellis-Martinez, is requesting reinstatement after being fired six months into her board approved three year contract. The complaint also states the newly elected board violated...
Employment Law
Santa Fe Public Schools seeks approval of J. Steven Baca payment
Santa Fe Public Schools paid former Ortiz Middle School Principal J. Steven Baca the agreed upon $86,000, but SFPS did not get permission from the Public Education Department to make the payment. Kate Ferlic, Baca’s attorney, and the attorneys representing Santa Fe...
Attorney Kate Ferlic says APS is taking advantage of Don Moya
Santa Fe attorney, Kate Ferlic, told the Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque Public Schools is taking advantage of Don Moya’s poor health. Moya, the former CFO of APS, has been on administrative leave since August 2015 when he was abruptly told not to report to work...
Don Moya extends leave due to injury
Albuquerque Public School former CFO Don Moya extends his medical leave due to a motorcycle accident that caused him to break both legs and be bound to a wheelchair. Moya’s attorney, Kate Ferlic, said the doctors have not cleared him to go back to work. A...
Los Alamos teacher switching schools due to discrimination
Zeynep Unal, a teacher at a Los Alamos school with Turkish and Muslim background, is switching schools due to discrimination. According to Unal’s attorney, Kate Ferlic, she was “verbally and psychologically abused at work.” “They made her workplace so difficult for...
Public Hearing begins for J. Steven Baca
Attorney Kate Ferlic’s request for a public hearing for J. Steven Baca was approved 4-1, and in return the public had an rare inside look into government employee hearings. During the 7 hours of testimony mostly from the district, Ferlic established J. Steven Baca...
Steven Baca hearing delayed to give public more notice
The hearing for the former Ortiz Middle School principal J. Steven Baca was delayed in order to give the public more notice to attend. Baca’s attorney, Kate Ferlic, said he wanted the public hearing “because he feels like the community needs to know that the actions...
APS CFO returns with new title same salary
APS CFO Don Moya plans to return to work on February 15 but will have a new title, Financial Systems Architect. The new title maintains the same salary, but the job description is clearly a demotion, states his attorney Kate Ferlic. “This is a significant change in...
Don Moya reassigned at APS
After almost 4 months of being on administrative leave, Don Moya was officially reassigned at Albuquerque Public Schools. The CFO’s job title is now Financial Systems Architect, a job that involves “moving and lifting 25 pound boxes”, and according to Moya’s attorney...
Judge Ellington recuses himself from Jason Wagner case
Judge Ellington announced today in court that he recused himself from the Jason Wagner case. Judge Ellington’s decision comes two weeks after Jason Wagner’s attorneys, John Day and Megan Dorsey, filed a motion to recuse Judge Ellington because he showed bias...