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Broward County School Board members decided to settle with a federal whistleblower Rebecca Blackwood. the agreement will award Blackwood $60,000 in backpay and $150,000 in legal fees, rescind her termination and allow her to retire with a full pension. Blackwood alerted county and state officials to the district's unsafe construction practices when serving as a senior supervisor in the school system's construction department in 2005. Broward Teacher's Union President Pat Santeramo said union officials believed all along that district officials charged Blackwood in order to punish her for reporting unsafe construction practices and building code violations.
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