Collin Anderson
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RIVERDALE, N.J.\u2014The Riverdale Board of Education approved a\u00a0second-year teaching contract\u00a0<\/b>for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate\u2019s repeated claims that she was asked not to return to teaching\u00a0after a\u00a0single\u00a0year because she was “visibly pregnant.”<\/p>\n
Minutes<\/a>\u00a0of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0show that\u00a0the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a “2nd year” contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching.\u00a0Minutes<\/a>\u00a0from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren\u2019s resignation was “accepted with regret.”<\/p>\n Warren’s claim that she was dismissed after her first year of teaching because she was pregnant has become a cornerstone of her stump speeches. She has used it to both explain her jump from teaching into the legal world as well as to showcase the difficulties that women face in the workplace. The principal of the school she worked at in the early 1970s, Warren has said, “showed [her] the door” at the end of the school year because she was “visibly pregnant.”<\/p>\n Warren\u2019s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the\u00a0board of education records.<\/p>\n Riverdale Board of Educatio\u2026<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Washington Free Beacon<\/a>\u00a0on Scribd<\/p>\n