New Jersey Herald
Lenape Valley Regional High School s superintendent is suing his own Board of Education, claiming his contract was not renewed in December because the board was seeking a younger candidate to take his place.
Paul DiRupo, the 64-year-old superintendent at the Stanhope school, contends he was discriminated due to his age when Richard Kuncken, the board president, told him no other explanation for his non-renewal other than the board was going younger.
DiRupo, who served in several capacities at Lenape for 32 years, filed the complaint in Sussex County Superior Court on Feb. 24.
The board s decision was egregious, unlawful and wanton, and reckless and caused DiRupo severe emotional damages and pain and suffering due to the humiliation of being terminated, the suit states.