RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former Wake County high school teacher has reached an agreement with officials after he was punished for inviting an anti-Islamic speaker to talk to his students.
Attorney Billy Strickland said he couldn't immediately disclose terms of the deal reached Monday with Robert Escamilla. Strickland said that the agreement was contingent upon the school district performing some actions that he couldn't reveal.
Escamilla was suspended in February 2007 after he invited an Egyptian-born Christian evangelist to speak at Enloe High School. Complaints arose over how the speaker denounced Islam and warned female students not to marry Muslim men.
Escamilla was reprimanded and sent to work at an alternative school. The school board also released negative parts of his personnel file to justify its decision not to return Escamilla to Enloe.
The teacher filed a lawsuit alleging that his due process rights had been violated.