The former finance director for the Public Schools of Brookline is suing the district and the town, alleging that she was illegally fired after a deputy superintendent asked her to falsify financial information and retaliated against her when she refused to do so.
Diane Johnson, who worked as the district’s finance director from November 2023 to September 2025, filed a class-action lawsuit in November, alleging that the district had withheld more than $10,500 of her wages after she was fired.
The complaint also alleges that Susan Givens, the district’s deputy superintendent of administration and finance, requested that Johnson “falsify financial information to present an artificially rosy version of the district’s financial affairs,” and retaliated against Johnson for months…