SIMI VALLEY : Ex-Principal Sues to Get Teaching Post

The former principal of Apollo High School, who resigned from that post after being accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit, has sued the Simi Valley Unified School District seeking a court order that would reinstate him as a tenured teacher.

Bradley H. Greene resigned his position last August, but the resignation did not take effect until Feb. 1. Greene later said his resignation had nothing to do with the sexual harassment lawsuit that was filed against him and the school district in 1988. Sara Kopman-Davis, the teacher who filed the suit, received an out-of-court settlement of $150,000 in November.

Greene’s suit, which was filed Tuesday in Ventura County Superior Court, asks for reinstatement as a tenured teacher, back pay for that position from Feb. 1 and legal fees.

According to court documents, Greene sent a letter on Dec. 26 to E. Leon Mattingley, associate superintendent of personnel, to learn where he would be teaching.

On Jan. 16, the district informed him in a letter that he would be terminated as of Feb. 1. The district has since refused to assign him to a school or to pay him.

Mattingley said he could not comment on the lawsuit and that the district’s action was based on Greene’s resignation.

“We feel like he is separated from the district and that is the way we are treating him,” Mattingley said.

Greene’s attorney, Eric T. Smith of Santa Ana, would not comment on the case.