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UNION HITS ‘RUBBER ROOM’ PRINCIPAL

The teachers union has filed a lawsuit charging that a Brooklyn principal violated state whistleblower laws by punishing a teacher who had made complaints about her.

MS 393 Principal Marian Bowden assigned teacher Kimani Brown to the so-called “rubber room” in retaliation for Brown’s insistence his students receive mandated special-education services, says the suit filed July 3 in Manhattan.

Teachers-union head Randi Weingarten called it “a clear case of a principal retaliating against an educator.”

A city Law Department spokeswoman said the suit was being reviewed.