St. Paul Public Schools has paid $75,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former teacher who claimed students regularly abused her physically and verbally.

Peggy Anne Severs last year sued the school district and former Battle Creek Middle School principal Tyrone Brookins, saying they did nothing to protect her from punches, kicks and vulgar insults.

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Severs, who taught special education, accused the school in 2014 of routinely moving special-education students into general-education classrooms without having had a required Individualized Education Plan meeting.

The previous year, the district moved hundreds of special-ed students with emotional and behavioral disabilities into mainstream classrooms. It was an attempt to raise expectations for those students, but teachers complained that their classrooms grew more disruptive and that students weren’t getting the support they needed.

According to a settlement agreement the school district released Friday in response to a Pioneer Press records request, the district agreed to pay $41,625 to Severs and $33,375 to her Minneapolis lawyer, T.J. Conley.

The district also will reclassify Severs’s dismissal as a resignation rather than a non-renewal of her probationary contract.

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Severs now works for South Washington County Schools.

Brookins, her former boss, now is principal of Roseville Area Middle School.

The settlement prohibits Severs and Brookins from publicly disparaging one another. It also does not require any party to admit they were at fault.

Conley could not be reached for comment Friday.

The school board last month approved the settlement without any public discussion.