The superintendent in the East Greenbush School District says she is fighting for her job after what she calls "discrimination" by district officials. Angela Nagle claims she was harassed, intimidated and asked to resign by members of the Board of Education during and after her pregnancy. But as Geoff Redick reports, board members call the superintendent's claims "misleading."

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. -- The bad blood between the Board of Education in East Greenbush and its superintendent, Angela Nagle, begun when she returned from maternity leave and within a few weeks was asked to resign her position, said Nagle's attorney Ryan Finn.


It was September 2014 when Nagle announced to her employer, the East Greenbush School District, that she was pregnant. It was the same time, her attorney says, that everything changed.

"The attitudes, the moods, changed. Things were different. When the male members of the Board of Education were talking, she'd pass by, they'd stop talking. No one would look her in the eye. She thought things were odd," Finn said.

It culminated just last month: Nagle, fresh off of maternity leave after giving birth to twins, asked for a contract extension. The board, her lawyer said, instead asked Nagle to leave the district, and it would buy out her contract.

Now, Nagle accuses the district of gender discrimination for her pregnancy.

"I handle a lot of gender discrimination cases, or racial discrimination cases. It's really a very similar fact pattern. No one comes right out and says it, it's always circumstantial evidence. But the timing of it stinks," Finn said.

Board members refute Nagle's claims, including the four named in her complaint.

They released a joint statement Monday, signed by board President Shay Harris, which says in part, the "allegations and conclusions are erroneous and misleading."

"The Board denies any misconduct or any violation of Dr. Nagle's contract rights," the statement reads.

The board also plans to issue a thorough rebuttal of Nagle's complaint in the next 10 days.

Nagle remains superintendent right now, though the board's statement says she is competing her term of service.

Nagle's complaint says she is seeking compensation for damage to her career and benefits.