OPINION & ORDER Kathleen O’Hara (“Plaintiff”) brings this Action against Defendants Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Southern Westchester (“BOCES”) and certain of its employees: Dr. Harold Coles, District Superintendent (“Coles”); James Gratto, Assistant Superintendent (“Gratto”); David Pulley, Assistant Superintendent (“Pulley); Lisa Schuchman, Director of Special Education (“Schuchman”); and John Knight, Title IX Officer (“Knight”).1 Plaintiff alleges violations of the Fourteenth Amendment; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. §2000e et seq.; and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §12111, et seq., claiming that Defendants discriminated and retaliated against her based on her purported disability. Before the Court is Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss the Second Amended Complaint (the “Motion”), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). (See Not. of Mot. (Dkt. No. 36).) For the reasons discussed below, the Motion is granted. I. Background A. Factual Background The following facts are drawn from Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint (“SAC”) (Dkt. No. 31), exhibits attached thereto, and other matters of which the Court may take judicial notice, and are taken as true for purposes of the instant Motion. “New York Education Law §1950 permits supervisory school districts in New York State to create boards of cooperative educational services…for the purpose of distributing the cost of certain educational services among school districts.” Gorton v. Gettel, 554 F.3d 60, 61 (2d Cir. 2009).2 BOCES, one such board, is based in Rye, New York. (Second Am. Compl. (“SAC”) 8 (Dkt. No. 31).) All Individual Defendants are officials of BOCES. (Id.
8-9.) In October 1988, Plaintiff began employment with BOCES as “a full-time Teacher of the Speech and Hearing Handicapped (“TSHH”)” in a school administered by BOCES. (Id. 10.) Plaintiff was employed by BOCES for over 28 years, during which time she provided “speech and language therapy to lower functioning children” and developed a specialty in “designing and adapting augmentative communication systems for nonverbal students.” (Id. 18.) While employed by BOCES, Plaintiff continued her professional development, earning a New York State clinical license as a speech and language pathologist, a Certificate of Clinical Competence (“CCC”) from the American Speech and Hearing Association (“ASHA”), and a Certificate in Assistive Technology. (Id. 11.) Until approximately 2011, Plaintiff received “favorable performance evaluations for her work.” (Id.
