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ORDER RICHARD J. ARCARA, Chief Judge. This case was referred to Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, pursuant to 28 *547 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1), on May 30, 2007. On October 1, 2007, defendant filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings and summary judgment. On November 26, 2008, Magistrate Judge Foschio filed a Report and Recommendation, recommending that defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (âADEAâ) claims and New York State Human Rights Law (âNYHRLâ) claims should be granted and, alternatively, that defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims should be granted and plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims should be dismissed. Plaintiff filed objections to the Report and Recommendation on January 5, 2009 and defendants filed a response thereto. Oral argument on the objections was held on February 27, 2009. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636 (b)(1), this Court must make a de novo determination of those portions of the Report and Recommendation to which objections have been made. Upon a de novo review of the Report and Recommendation, and after reviewing the submissions and hearing argument from the parties, the Court adopts the proposed findings of the Report and Recommendation. Accordingly, for the reasons set forth in Magistrate Judge Foschioâs Report and Recommendation, defendantâs motion for summary judgment is granted as to plaintiffs ADEA and NYHRL claims. The Clerk of Court shall take all steps necessary to close the case. SO ORDERED. REPORT and RECOMMENDATION LESLIE G. FOSCHIO, United States Magistrate Judge. JURISDICTION This case was referred to the undersigned by the Honorable Richard J. Arcara on May 30, 2007 for all pretrial matters. (Doc. No. 5). The matter is presently before the court on Defendantâs motion for judgment on the pleadings and for summary judgment (Doc. No. 19), filed October 1, 2007. BACKGROUND Plaintiffs Carol Field (âPlaintiff Fieldâ or âFieldâ) and Erin Mancuso (âPlaintiff Mancusoâ or âMancusoâ) (together, âPlaintiffsâ) commenced this action on April 12, 2007, alleging that the Tonawanda City School District (âDefendantâ or âthe Districtâ) discriminated against them based on their ages, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 , et seq. (âthe ADEAâ) (âFirst Cause of Actionâ or âthe ADEA claimsâ) and the New York State Human Rights Law, New York Executive Law § 290, et seq. ' (âNYHRLâ or âExecutive Lawâ) (âSecond Cause of Actionâ or âthe NYHRL Claimâ). In particular, Plaintiffs assert that, in changing their teaching assignments and performing additional classrooms observations of Plaintiffs in March 2004, actions affecting the terms and conditions of their employment, before Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer, previously announced in February 2004, had ended on April 2, 2004, Defendant discriminated against them based on their age, for the purpose of inducing Plaintiffs to accept Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer. 1 Complaint ¶¶ 1, 12, 19, *548 21. Attached to the Complaint are Right to Sue Letters dated January 11, 2007 (âthe Right to Sue Lettersâ), Plaintiffsâ Exhibit A, and Determination Letters dated September 26, 2006 to Plaintiffs issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (âEEOCâ) (âthe Determination Lettersâ), Plaintiffsâ Exhibit B, finding reasonable cause that Defendant discriminated against Plaintiffs, as Plaintiffs allege in this action. Defendant filed its answer on April 23, 2007, and an Amended Answer, with several affirmative defenses, on August 3, 2007 (Doc. No. 12) (âAmended Answerâ). On October 1, 2007, Defendant filed its Motion Seeking Dismissal Under Rules 12(c) and 56 (Doc. No. 19) (âDefendantâs motionâ), the Declaration of Jeremy A. Colby, Esq. (âColby Declarationâ) together with a copy of Plaintiffsâ discrimination charges filed with the EEOC on June 19, 2004, (âColby Decl. Exh. Aâ) (âPlaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Chargesâ), the Declaration of Susan DâAngelo (âDâAngelo Declarationâ) along with Exhibits A â C (âDâAngelo Decl. Exh(s). _â), and a Statement of Undisputed Facts (âDefendantâs Fact Statementâ). On October 2, 2007, Defendant filed a Memorandum in Support of Defendantâs Motion Seeking Dismissal under Rules 12(c) and 56. (Doc. No. 20) (âDefendantâs Memorandumâ). On October 25, 2007, Plaintiffs filed a Memorandum of Law in Opposition to the Defendantâs motion (Doc. No. 22) (âPlaintiffsâ Memorandumâ), along with a Statement of Disputed Material Facts in Opposition to Defendantâs Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. 23) (âPlaintiffsâ Fact Statementâ). Defendant filed its Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of Defendantâs Motion Seeking Dismissal Under Rules 12(c) and 56 on November 9, 2007 (Doc. No. 24) (âDefendantâs Reply Memorandumâ), along with the Reply Declaration of Jeremy A. Colby in Support of Defendantâs Motion Seeking Dismissal Under Rules 12(c) and 56 (Doc. No. 24-2) (âColby Reply Declarationâ), and a copy of the EEOCâs Notice of Charge of Discrimination and Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges (Doc. No. 24-3) (âColby Reply Decl. Exh. Aâ). Defendant, in further support of its motion, submitted, with a letter to the court, dated February 29, 2008, a copy of a New York Court of Appeals decision addressing the applicable statute of limitations for a claim of discrimination under New York law brought against a school district. (Doc. No. 26) (âDefendantâs Letterâ). By letter to the court dated March 6, 2008, Plaintiffs responded to Defendantâs Letter. (Doc. No. 27) (âPlaintiffsâ Letterâ). Oral argument was deemed unnecessary. Based on the following, Defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ First Cause of Action, the ADEA claims and Plaintiffsâ Second Cause of Action, the NYHRL Claims, should be GRANTED. Alternatively, Defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims should be GRANTED and Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims should be DISMISSED. FACTS 2 Since April 1968 and September 1969, Plaintiffs Field and Mancuso, respectively, were employed by Defendant as elementary school teachers at Defendantâs Fletcher Elementary School (âthe Fletcher Schoolâ). Complaint ¶ 9; DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 1. During Defendantâs 2003-2004 school year, Field taught second grade and Mancuso taught first grade at Fletcher School as they had throughout their employment with Defendant. Complaint *549 ¶ 13; DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 3; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 6. Plaintiffs were tenured teachers at the Fletcher School and among the schoolâs most senior teachers; Field was the oldest and second-most senior teacher, and Mancuso was the second-oldest and most senior teacher at the Fletcher School. Complaint ¶ 10; Colby Declaration ¶ 5 (âFor the purposes of these motions only, the District accepts the allegations of the Complaint as true.â). â[E]xperienced primary teachersâ who were âvery successful in their employmentâ with Defendant, Plaintiffs had, during their teaching careers with Defendant, received ânumerous outstanding performance evaluations.â Complaint ¶ ¶ 16-17; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. Under the collective bargaining agreement between Defendant and Plaintiffsâ teachers union, Defendantâs tenured teachers were to receive a classroom observation at least every other year. DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 7; DâAngelo Decl. Exh. B (Defendantâs Professional Performance Review Procedure for Tenure and NonTenured Teachers ¶ 3). On April 8, 2003, DâAngelo conducted a classroom observation of Mancuso; on April 10, 2003, DâAngelo conducted a classroom observation of Field. Complaint ¶ 18b; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. Prior to the start of Defendantâs 2003-2004 school year, on August 27, 2003, teachers at the Fletcher School were informed that untenured teachers would be subject to classroom observations during the school year. Complaint ¶ 18a; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. On February 20, 2004, Defendant announced it would offer an early retirement incentive to âencourage highly compensated teachers and staff to retireâ (âthe Early Retirement Incentiveâ). DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 2; Complaint ¶ 11; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 2. As part of the Early Retirement Incentive, teachers and staff at the Fletcher School were required to notify Defendant, by April 2, 2004, if they intended to accept the Early Retirement Incentive. 3 Complaint ¶ 11; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 3. On March 7, 2004, DâAngelo informed Plaintiffs that they were being assigned to teach fifth grade classes at the Fletcher School beginning with the 2004-2005 school year. 4 DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 3; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 6. On March 9, 2004, DâAngelo announced that classroom observations for tenured teachers would be conducted, which, given that classroom observations of tenured teachers at the Fletcher School, including Plaintiffs, had been conducted during April 2003, was inconsistent with Defendantâs past custom and practice at the Fletcher School. Complaint ¶¶ 18a, 18b; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. At the time of Defendantâs notice to Plaintiffs regarding their new fifth-grade teaching assignments, Field was fifty-seven and Mancuso was fifty-six. Complaint ¶ ¶ 6-7. Thereafter, on March 15, 2004, DâAngelo conducted a classroom observation of Field and, on March 23, 2004, of Mancuso. DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 7; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 4. Plaintiffs were the only tenured teachers at the Fletcher School who were subjected to DâAngeloâs classroom observations in 2004. Complaint ¶ 18a; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. *550 Plaintiffs did not elect to accept Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer by the April 2, 2004 deadline; instead, on June 21, 2004, Plaintiffs filed charges of age discrimination under the ADEA against Defendant with the EEOC. Complaint ¶ 8; Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 11; Colby Decl. Exh. A. Plaintiffsâ assignments to teach fifth grade for the 2004-2005 school year did not result in Plaintiffs being âassigned to a different building, specialty class, or to any course or grade outside the parameters of their [Plaintiffsâ] teaching certifications.â DâAngelo Declaration ¶5 (bracketed material added). In Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, Plaintiffs claimed Defendant discriminated against Plaintiffs because of their ages through Defendantâs additional classroom observations and teaching reassignments in an âattempt to force [Plaintiffs] to take the [Defendantâs] early retirement incentiveâ 5 that had been offered by Defendant in February 2004. Colby Decl. Exh. A (bracketed material added). Plaintiffs also charged Defendant had âharassed, intimidated and subjected [Plaintiffs] ... to different terms and conditions of employmentâ including âincreased formal [classroom] observations and administrative visits,â the fifth grade teaching assignments, and discriminatory actions based on Plaintiffsâ ages âin an attempt to force Plaintiffs to elect Defendantâs early retirement incentive and in an attempt to force [Plaintiffs] ... to retire.â Colby Decl. Exh. A. In Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, Plaintiffs indicated March 5, 2004 as the date Plaintiffs were notified of their new teaching assignments for the 2004-2005 school year, and as the date on which Defendantâs discriminatory action occurred. Id. Plaintiffs did not charge Defendant with discriminatory conduct of a continuing nature by checking the designated box for doing so on the EEOCâs Notice of Charge of Discrimination form. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 5 (referencing Colby Decl. Exh. A). No other administrative charges of employment discrimination were filed with the EEOC against Defendant by Plaintiffs. Id. In the EEOCâs Notices of Charge of Discrimination to Defendant, the EEOC invited Defendant to respond to the Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges by July 16, 2004, to consider engaging in EEOC-sponsored mediation, and enclosed copies of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges. Colby Reply Decl. Exh. A. Copies of the administrative charges were forwarded to the Superintendent of the District, Mr. George Batterson, by the EEOCâs regional office on June 30, 2004. 6 Colby Reply Decl. Exh. A. The copies of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges were received by Defendant on July 2, 2004. Colby Reply Declaration ¶ 2. While Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges were pending before the EEOC, by letters dated February 24, 2006, Plaintiffs notified Defendant they intended to retire effective June 30, 2006 and their retirements became effective July 1, 2006. DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 8; DâAngelo Decl. Exh. C. In its Determination Letters to Plaintiffs and Defendant, dated September 26, 2006, the EEOC concluded there was âreason to believeâ Defendant had violated Plaintiffsâ rights under the ADEA and suggested conciliation. Plaintiffsâ Exh. B. In its determination, the EEOC found reasonable cause to believe that Plaintiffs rights had been violated by Defendant because, according to the EEOC, *551 Plaintiffs had been subjected to consecutive annual classroom evaluations in April 2003 and again in March 2004, prior to the deadline established for acceptance of Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer. Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at l. 7 Specifically, the EEOC determined that Defendantâs purpose in offering Plaintiffs, and other older teachers in Defendantâs system, the Early Retirement Incentive was to reduce the number of more senior and highly paid teachers, such as Plaintiffs, on its payroll. Id. The EEOC also found that Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer, the sequential annual classroom observations of Plaintiffs, that the EEOC determined to be inconsistent with Defendantâs past custom and practice, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 1, as well as Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments, were not coincidental actions, but, in the opinion of the EEOC, were intended to obtain Plaintiffsâ early retirement under the Early Retirement Incentive. Id. at 2. In its Determination Letters, the EEOC again suggested the parties engage in conciliation activity with the EEOC. Id. The Determination Letters made no reference to any discriminatory conduct directed to Plaintiffs after March 2004 by Defendant, and while the letters state that Plaintiffs declined to accept Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 1, they do not indicate that Plaintiffs instead elected, on February 24, 2006, to retire at the end of June 2006. Plaintiffsâ Exh. B (passim). On January 11, 2007, the EEOC terminated its administrative proceedings against Defendant, and issued Right to Sue Letters to Plaintiffs. Plaintiffsâ Exh. A. On July 19, 2007, during a pre-trial scheduling conference before the court pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 16(b), Plaintiffsâ attorney stated that Plaintiffsâ 2006 retirements constituted actionable constructive discharges. (Doc. No. 9) (Minute Entry). In their opposition to Defendantâs motion, Plaintiffs assert that on January 11, 2007, Plaintiffs sent a letter to the EEOC investigator, John Thompson (âThompsonâ), who investigated Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, in response to Thompsonâs request for additional information regarding Plaintiffsâ financial losses, stating that they had retired âat the end of the 2005-2006 school year due to the harassment related to this charge.â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5. Copies of this correspondence between Thompson and Plaintiffs are not included in the record. No affidavits or other evidence were filed by Plaintiffs in opposition to Defendantâs motion, nor have Plaintiffs requested leave to conduct discovery, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(f), in order to oppose Defendantâs motion. DISCUSSION I. Plaintiffsâ ADEA Claims. 8 Defendant seeks summary judgment on Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, arguing Plaintiffs failed to allege or demonstrate a material issue of fact that, as a result of any age-related employment discrimination against Plaintiffs by Defendant, Plaintiffs were *552 subject to an adverse employment action, a required element of Plaintiffsâ ADEA cause of action. Colby Declaration ¶ 3; Defendantâs Memorandum at 9-12; Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 8. Specifically, Defendant argues that even if it is true that Defendant discriminated against Plaintiffs based on their ages, Colby Declaration ¶ 5, as the EEOC determined, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 2, Plaintiffs do not allege they suffered an adverse employment action, actionable under the ADEA, as a result of Defendantâs actions. Defendantâs Memorandum at 9. Plaintiffs concede that âas discrete incidents, the [teaching] reassignments and increased [classroom] observations [of Plaintiffs] do not individually amount to an adverse employment action.â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8 (bracketed material added). Nevertheless, Plaintiffs contend that âthe harassment and malice associated with such actions created a hostile work environment, which eventually resulted in a constructive discharge [when Plaintiffs retired in 2006], sufficient to establish a prima facie ADEA claim.â Id. (bracketed material added). Although Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant subjected Plaintiffs to âharassment, intimidation and different terms and conditions of employment ...,â based on Plaintiffsâ ages, Complaint ¶ 1, Plaintiffs did not raise a specific claim of constructive discharge in the Complaint. However, on July 19, 2007 at a pretrial conference conducted pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 16(b) (âthe Rule 16(b) Conferenceâ) before the undersigned, Plaintiffsâ attorney stated that Defendantâs discriminatory actions had forced Plaintiffs into retirement in 2006. (Doc. No. 9) (Minute Entry). Consistent with this oral representation, Plaintiffs now contend, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, that they were constructively discharged as a result of a hostile work environment, commencing in March 2004, created by Defendant. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4. Plaintiffs further maintain that Plaintiffsâ subsequent retirements in 2006 constituted constructive discharges that were reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, which included Plaintiffsâ allegations of Defendantâs harassment and intimidation as of the time the charges were filed, Colby Reply Decl. Exh. A, and therefore were reasonably within the scope of EEOCâs investigation. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4. As such, Plaintiffs contend, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, Defendantâs Memorandum at 5-9, such hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims were administratively exhausted and are therefore actionable under Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5-8. Defendant opposes consideration of Plaintiffsâ hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims under the ADEA, arguing that not only does Defendantâs discriminatory conduct, even assuming it occurred as Plaintiffs allege, fail, as a matter of law, to establish a hostile work environment or the predicate for an actionable constructive discharge claim, but, additionally, Plaintiffs did not allege a hostile work environment created by Defendant or constructive discharge claim after June 2004 either in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges or, almost three years later, in the Complaint. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 9. In particular, Defendant contends that because in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges Plaintiffs specified March 5, 2004, the classroom observation of Field conducted by Defendant, as the date Defendantâs discriminatory conduct took place rather than checking the âcontinuing violationâ or âotherâ type of violation box on the EEOC Notice of Charge of Discrimination Form, Colby Decl. Exh. A, there was no charge before the EEOC of a continuing course of discriminatory conduct after March 2004 *553 by Defendant constituting a hostile work environment resulting in Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge in 2006 that could have been considered by the EEOC as an administrative prerequisite to this action. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 9. Defendant therefore contends Plaintiffsâ later assertions, at the Rule 16(b) Conference and, presently, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4, that Plaintiffsâ retirements in June 2006 resulted from Defendantâs discriminatory conduct in 2004, notwithstanding the lapse of approximately 29 months following Defendantâs discriminatory conduct directed to Plaintiffs on March 5, 2004, are not reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges. Defendantâs Memorandum at 5-9. Thus, according to Defendant, Plaintiffs have failed to exhaust their required administrative remedies before the EEOC on Plaintiffsâ belated allegations of a hostile work environment and constructive discharge as adverse employment actions and, as such, these claims, even if considered to have been pleaded in the Complaint, are time-barred. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 4-8; 8-10. Summary judgment will be granted when the moving party demonstrates that there are no genuine issues as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23, 106 S.Ct. 2548 , 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., All U.S. 242, 106 S.Ct. 2505 , 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986); Rattner v. Netbum, 930 F.2d 204, 209 (2d Cir.1991). The court is required to construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. Tenenbaum v. Williams, 193 F.3d 581, 593 (2d Cir.1999) (citing Anderson, 477 U.S. at 255, 106 S.Ct. 2505 ); Rattner, 930 F.2d at 209 . The party moving for summary judgment bears the burden of establishing the nonexistence of a genuine issue of material fact and if there is any evidence in the record based upon any source from which a reasonable inference in the nonmoving partyâs favor may be drawn, the moving party cannot obtain a summary judgment. Celotex, 477 U.S. at 322, 106 S.Ct. 2548 ; see Anderson, 477 U.S. at 247-48, 106 S.Ct. 2505 . The function of a district court in considering a summary judgment motion is not to resolve disputed issues of fact, but to determine whether there is a genuine issue of fact to be tried. Rattner, 930 F.2d at 209 . In assessing the record, including any affidavits, exhibits, and other submissions, the court is required to resolve all ambiguities and to draw all factual inferences in favor of the nonmoving party. Anderson, 477 U.S. at 255, 106 S.Ct. 2505 ; Rattner, 930 F.2d at 209 . If the moving party meets its burden of demonstrating the absence of any genuine issue of material fact, the nonmoving party must come forward with âspecific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.â Fed. R.Civ.P. 56(e). The nonmoving party may not rest upon unsubstantiated allegations, conclusory assertions or mere denials, but must set forth and establish specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e). A metaphysical or other whimsical doubt concerning a material fact does not establish a genuine issue requiring trial. Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 584 , 106 S.Ct. 1348 , 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986). Once a party moving for summary judgment has made a properly supported showing regarding the absence of any genuine issue as to all material facts, the nonmoving party, -with the burden of proof at trial, must, to defeat summary judgment, come forward with evidence that would be sufficient to support a jury verdict in its favor and âmay not simply rely on conclusory statements or on contentions *554 that the affidavits supporting the motion are not credible.â Goenaga v. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, 51 F.3d 14, 18 (2d Cir.1995) (citing cases). The ADEA makes it unlawful âfor an employer ... to discharge or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individualâs age.â 29 U.S.C. § 623 (a)(1); Bond v. City of Middletown, 389 F.Supp.2d 319, 343 (D.Conn.2005). ADEA violations may be asserted by employees who are at least forty years old. Bond, 389 F.Supp.2d at 343 (citing 29 U.S.C. § 631 (a)). ADEA claims are analyzed âunder the same burden-shifting framework as claims brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq.â Abdu-Brisson v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., 239 F.3d 456, 466 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 993 , 122 S.Ct. 460 , 151 L.Ed.2d 378 (2001). First, a plaintiff must present sufficient evidence to support a prima facie case of discrimination. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 802 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 , 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973). Once plaintiff has presented prima facie evidence, the defendant must âarticulate some legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasonâ for its decision. Id. If defendant meets this burden, the plaintiff must prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the reason articulated was a pretext for discrimination. Id. at 802-04 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 . To establish a prima facie case of age discrimination, Plaintiffs must show (1) they belong to a protected class; (2) they were qualified for their positions; (3) they were subjected to adverse employment action; and (4) circumstances which âgive rise to an inference of discrimination.â Abdu-Brisson, 239 F.3d at 466 -67 (citing McDonnell Douglas, 411 U.S. at 802 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 ). Plaintiffsâ burden establishing a prima facie case of age discrimination under the ADEA is de minimis. Id. at 467. In this case, that Plaintiffs are members in the protected class, i.e., over forty years old at the time of the alleged discrimination, and qualified for their respective teaching positions with Defendant, is not disputed. Nor does Defendant directly contradict the EEOCâs finding that Defendant subjected Plaintiffs to discriminatory treatment by ordering Plaintiffsâ reassignments to teach fifth grade beginning with Defendantâs 2004-2005 school year, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B, and, as Plaintiffs allege in the Complaint, Complaint ¶ ¶ 1, 12, by conducting consecutive annual observations in April 2003 and again in March 2004 of Plaintiffsâ classroom teaching performance based on Plaintiffsâ ages and seniority. Colby Declaration ¶ 5 (âFor the purpose of these motions only, the District accepts the allegations of the Complaint as true.â) (underlining added). However, Defendant maintains that Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims are, notwithstanding this concession, subject to summary judgment because Plaintiffs did not allege, either in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges or the Complaint, that Plaintiffs were subjected to an adverse employment action, as required by the ADEA, Abdu-Brisson, 239 F.3d at 466-67 , resulting from such discrimination, and present no evidence, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, establishing a material issue of fact that Plaintiffs were subjected to an adverse employment action by Defendant, actionable under the ADEA, resulting from any acts of discrimination based on Plaintiffsâ ages, including Defendantâs unsuccessful attempt to effect Plaintiffsâ early retirement by acceptance of the Early Retirement Incentive, or any other discriminatory conduct related to Plaintiffsâ ages after March 2004. Defendantâs Memorandum at 9. As noted, Facts, supra, at 551, in opposition to Defendantâs *555 motion, other than relying on the EEOCâs Determination Letters, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B., Plaintiffs submitted no affidavits or other admissible evidence raising material issues of fact related to any element of Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, particularly that Plaintiffs were subjected to an adverse employment action as a result of age discrimination, as required by Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c), (e)(2). See Goenaga, 51 F.3d at 18 (non-moving party with burden of proof at trial must establish existence of material issue of fact requiring trial to avoid summary judgment). Although in the Determination Letters the EEOC found grounds to believe Defendant discriminated against Plaintiffs based on their ages as alleged in the Complaint, Complaint ¶ ¶ 1, 12; Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 2; Colby Declaration ¶ 5, on account of the teaching reassignments and additional classroom observations of Plaintiffs, Plaintiffsâ reliance on the EEOCâs findings to defeat Defendantâs motion, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 9, is unavailing. Findings of discrimination by the EEOC are not admissible evidence, per se, sufficient to avoid summary judgment. Wanamaker v. Columbian Rope Company, 907 F.Supp. 522 , 538 n. 24 (N.D.N.Y. 1995) (admissibility of EEOC reasonable cause determination discretionary with district court dependent upon probative factual and a proper legal basis for administrative finding and quoting EEOC v. Regency Architectural Metals Corp., 896 F.Supp. 260, 263 (D.Conn.1995)), aff'd, 108 F.3d 462 (2d Cir.1997); see also Miller v. Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics Corp., 2004 WL 941798 *3 n. 8 (W.D.N.Y. Apr. 9, 2004) (â[district courts have substantial discretion with respect to the weight to be accorded an EEOC determination.â) (citing Wanamaker, 907 F.Supp. at 538 n. 24 and Regency Architectural Metals Corp., 896 F.Supp. at 263 ). In this case, the court finds the EEOC Determination Letters are inadmissible as insufficiently probative and without legal basis to avoid summary judgment. Specifically, as the Determination Letters do not make any findings that Defendant created a hostile work environment or caused Plaintiffs to be constructively discharged based on Plaintiffsâ ages, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B {passim), they provide no evidence of an adverse employment action, as required for a viable claim of employment discrimination, under the ADEA sufficient to avoid summary judgment. Further, as discussed, Discussion, infra, at 557-59, the two grounds upon which the EEOCâs determinations of age related discrimination were based â Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments and increased classroom observations â are insufficient as a matter of law to constitute the required element under the ADEA that such discrimination resulted in material and adverse employment actions, and Plaintiffs concede as much. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8. Thus, the EEOCâs determinations, addressing the merits of Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, are at odds with prevailing caselaw, and inadmissible on that basis. See Wanamaker, 907 F.Supp. at 538 n. 24 (lack of legal basis for EEOC finding of retaliation against plaintiff renders EEOC determination inadmissible). Here, it is undisputed that the sole basis for Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims is that Defendant, in an attempt to force Plaintiffs to accept early retirement in 2004, reassigned Plaintiffs to teach fifth grade at the beginning of the next school year, and then subjected each of them to an additional classroom observation â contrary to Defendantâs past policy and practice â which took place in March 2004, approximately one year after the classroom observations of Plaintiffs which Defendant conducted in April 2003 pursuant to the CBA. Plaintiffs do not contest that such changes in teaching assignments and additional administra *556 tive scrutiny of their work, without more, fail as a matter of law to establish an adverse employment action sufficient to support an ADEA claim. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8. Nor do Plaintiffs disagree that the additional classroom observations were permitted under the CBA, and that neither Plaintiffs nor their union ever attempted to file either a grievance or an arbitration request based on the consecutive April 2003 and March 2004 classroom observations, DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 7, to which Plaintiffs point, Complaint ¶ ¶ 1, 12, and the EEOC found, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B, as evidence of Defendantâs age-related discriminatory conduct toward them. Moreover, Plaintiffs do not dispute DâAngeloâs statement, DâAngelo Declaration ¶¶ 5-6, that Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments did not result in any degradation of Plaintiffsâ working conditions based on the location of Plaintiffsâ classrooms, or any professional duties outside Plaintiffsâ teaching certifications, including fifth grade at the Fletcher School, or diminishment of Plaintiffsâ âsalaries, benefits, prestige or opportunities for advancement.â Id. As such, Defendant maintains Plaintiffs fail to raise any material issue of fact that Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments or the extra classroom observations amounted to a âmaterial adverse changeâ in Plaintiffsâ working conditions or potential for career advancement. Defendantâs Memorandum at 11-12. In opposing Defendantâs request for summary judgment, Plaintiffs rely on their allegation that they suffered âdamages to their reputation,â Complaint ¶ 22, Plaintiffsâ Fact Statement denying Defendantâs assertion that the reassignments âdid not affect their salaries, benefits, prestige or opportunities for advancement,â Plaintiffsâ Fact Statement ¶ 10, and the EEOCâs Right to Sue and Determination Letters to Plaintiffs, Plaintiffsâ Exhs. A and B. 9 Notwithstanding these allegations, Plaintiffs have failed to submit any evidence, by affidavit or otherwise, to counter Defendantâs factual representations and averments supporting Defendantâs motion. It is fundamental that to avoid summary judgment a plaintiff having the burden of proof, as do Plaintiffs in this case, must point to admissible evidence demonstrating a material issue of fact relevant to the elements of their claims and may not rely on their pleadings or mere denials of a defendantâs statement of undisputed facts. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e)(2) (opposing party may not rely on âallegations or denials in its own pleadingsâ); Goenaga, 51 F.3d at 18 ; Covelli v. Natâl Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. 2001 WL 1823584 , at *1 (W.D.N.Y. Dec. 6, 2001) (citing Holtz v. Rockefeller & Go., 258 F.3d 62, 74 (2d Cir.2001) (mere denials of moving partyâs statement of undisputed facts insufficient to establish material issues of fact)), aff'd, 49 Fed.Appx. 356 (2d Cir.2002) (table). Additionally, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 555, the EEOC Determination Letters, relied on by Plaintiffs, which found Defendant had engaged in age-related discriminatory employment conduct against Plaintiffs based on Plaintiffsâ ages, are inadmissible and thus insufficient to avoid summary judgment against Plaintiffs on Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. Generally, to establish an adverse employment action under the ADEA, a plaintiff must establish that a defendantâs *557 discriminatory actions resulted in â âmaterially adverse changes in the terms and conditions of employment....ââ Chandler v. AMR American Eagle Airline, 251 F.Supp.2d 1173, 1184 (E.D.N.Y.2003) (quoting Henriquez v. Times Herald Record, 1997 WL 732444 , at *5 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 25, 1997), aff'd, 165 F.3d 14 (2d Cir.1998)). As relevant to the instant case, courts have held that increased employer scrutiny is not sufficient to establish an adverse employment action. See Alfieri v. SYSCO Food Services â Syracuse, 192 F.Supp.2d 14, 23 (W.D.N.Y.2001) (âhypercritical supervisorâ and âunfair and unwarranted treatmentâ not actionable) (quoting Stetson v. NYNEX Serv. Co., 995 F.2d 355 , 360 (2d Cir.1993)). Thus, despite the fact that Plaintiffs had been subjected to similar classroom observations during April 2003, arguably contravening Defendantâs past policy and practice as the EEOC Determination Letters found, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 1, Defendantâs classroom observations of Plaintiffs which occurred on March 15 and 24, 2004, after Plaintiffs were informed, on either March 5 or 7, 2004, of their new fifth grade teaching assignments, do not demonstrate Plaintiffs were subjected to an adverse employment action actionable under the ADEA. Although, under the ADEA a forced early retirement may constitute a form of adverse employment action, Less v. Nestle Co., 705 F.Supp. 110, 114 (W.D.N.Y.1988) (recognizing that allegation of coerced early retirement may support a constructive discharge claim under ADEA), it is undisputed that Plaintiffs declined Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 6 (Plaintiffs âelected not to retire [in 2004]â), id. at 9 (â[Plaintiffs] involuntarily retired in June of 2006.â) (bracketed material added). Plaintiffsâ Exh. B at 1 (âCharging party elected not to retire.â) Despite this contention, Plaintiffs do not aver by affidavit, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, that but for Defendantâs discriminatory actions in 2004, they would have continued to teach at any grade level at the Fletcher School beyond their 2006 retirements, particularly the first and second grades. Nor is a reassignment of a plaintiffs teaching duties sufficient to establish an adverse employment action for ADEA purposes. See Galabya v. New York City Bd. of Educ., 202 F.3d 636, 641 (2d Cir.2000) (no adverse employment action under ADEA where plaintiffs teaching assignment not shown to be less prestigious, less suited to appellantâs skills and expertise, nor inhibiting plaintiffs career advancement); Chandler, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1183 (â[a] job reassignment, without attendant material adverse consequences, is not an adverse employment action.â); Ticali v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, 41 F.Supp.2d 249, 265 (E.D.N.Y.) (despite plaintiffs âdisdainâ to teaching prekindergarten, summary judgment granted to employer based on plaintiffs failure to present âmaterial evidence that her transfer [to prekindergarten from teaching first grade] obliged her to perform tasks that were less appropriate for her skills than her prior position or adverse to her in any other legally cognizable way.â (bracketed material added)), aff'd, 201 F.3d 432 (2d Cir.1999). â â[I]f a transfer is truly lateral and involves no significant changes in an employeeâs conditions of employment, the fact that the employee views the transfer either positively or negatively does not itself render the denial or receipt of the transfer [an] adverse employment action.â â Carmellino v. Dist. 20 of New York City Depât. of Educ., 2006 WL 2583019 , at *39 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 6, 2006) (quoting Williams v. R.H. Donnelley, Carp., 368 F.3d 123, 128 (2d Cir.2004)). Importantly, Plaintiffs fail to provide any evidence, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, to explain why teaching fifth grade during the 2004-2005 school year, and for the 2005-2006 school year, at the Fletcher School could be rea *558 sonably considered to be a more difficult professional task for Plaintiffs to perform than teaching first and second grades in the 2003-2004 school year, or in prior years at the Fletcher School. 10 See Carmellino, 2006 WL 2583019 , at * 29 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 6, 2006) (citing Ticali, 41 F.Supp.2d at 265 ). See also Patrolmenâs Benevolent Assân v. City of New York, 74 F.Supp.2d 321, 335 (S.D.N.Y.1999) (âThe key inquiry regarding involuntary transfers is whether the transfer constitutes a negative employment action tantamount to a demotion.â). Other than the consecutive annual classroom observations which eoncededly took place in April 2003 and March 2004, Plaintiffs submit no evidence of any other alleged forms of harassment including other such observations or heightened administrative scrutiny occurring after March 2004 by Defendant related to Plaintiffsâ teaching activities. Although Plaintiffs allege their teaching reassignments constituted a potential CBA violation, as âan unsound administrative decision,â Complaint ¶¶ 15-16, and that Plaintiffs âsuffered damages to their reputations,â as a result of the reassignments, Complaint ¶ 22, Plaintiffs point to no evidence to support such assertions. 11 Nor do Plaintiffs provide any evidence that Plaintiffs suffered economic losses, whether in salary or fringe benefits, as a result of the reassignments or the consecutive classroom observations in March 2004. Facts, supra, at 551, and Plaintiffsâ denials, Plaintiffsâ Fact Statement ¶ 10, of Defendantâs Fact Statement asserting Plaintiffs did not suffer such losses, Defendantâs Fact Statement ¶ 10, are insufficient to avoid summary judgment. See Covelli, 2001 WL 1823584 at *1 (denials of moving partyâs undisputed fact statement insufficient to avoid summary judgment). Allegations in a complaint are, of course, no bar to summary judgment, Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e)(2), and Plaintiffs make no effort to contradict DâAngeloâs averments, DâAngelo Declaration ¶ 5, that Plaintiffs were not required to change buildings or teach outside the scope of their teaching certifications in connection with the reassignments. The record is therefore devoid of anything to support a reasonable inference that Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments, or additional classroom observations, were tantamount to a demotion or constituted a significant and material adverse change in Plaintiffsâ working conditions. See Chandler, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1184 (summary judgment granted where plaintiff failed to demonstrate defendantâs reassignment of plaintiff had âaffected his pay, hours, or position within the organization.â). Thus, Plaintiffs have failed to show there exists any evidence requiring trial that as a result of the only alleged discriminatory conduct directed to Plaintiffs by Defendant on this record â the March 2004 classroom observations and change in teaching assignments â Plaintiffs suffered any adverse employment action, including a change of working conditions, loss of professional status, or any diminution of compensation or benefits sufficient to sustain Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. See Goenaga, 51 F.3d at 18 (where moving party carries its burden of showing there exists no material issue of fact on an element of plaintiffs claim, plaintiffs failure to come forward with evidence sufficient to support a jury verdict in its favor, where plaintiff has burden of proof, requires summary judgment in favor of the moving party). Plaintiffs do not dispute they carry the burden of proof at *559 trial on the issues relevant to Defendantâs motion. Although Plaintiffs concede that their teaching reassignments and increased observations do not amount to an adverse employment action, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8, Plaintiffs nonetheless argue, in opposition to Defendantâs motion, that the âharassment and malice associated with these actions created a hostile work environmentâ and resulted in Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge when Plaintiffs decided to retire, âinvoluntarily,â in 2006 thereby constituting adverse employment actions. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8-9. There are several difficulties with Plaintiffsâ contentions. First, a fair reading of the Complaint fails to reveal any discernible allegation that Plaintiffsâ claimed Defendantâs discriminatory conduct created a hostile work environment while Plaintiffs were employment at the Fletcher School or resulted in a constructive discharge at any time. â[T]o prevail on a hostile work environment claim under Title VII and the ADEA, a plaintiff must show that the harassment was sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victimâs employment and create an abusive working environment.â Terry v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 128, 147 (2d Cir.2003) (internal quotations omitted). In particular, Plaintiffs must show âeither that a single incident was extraordinarily severe, or that a series of incidents were sufficiently continuous and concerted to have altered the conditions of [Plaintiffsâ] working environment.â Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc., 202 F.3d 560, 570 (2d Cir.2000) (internal quotation omitted). A constructive discharge claim based on a hostile work environment requires a showing that the altered work conditions become âso difficult or unpleasant that a reasonable person in the employeeâs shoes would have felt compelled to resign[,]â or retire. Less, 705 F.Supp. at 114 (ADEA claims based on alleged forced early retirement) (quoting Rosado v. Santiago, 562 F.2d 114, 119 (1st Cir.1977) and quoted in Pena v. Brattleboro Retreat, 702 F.2d 322, 325 (2d Cir.1983)). In determining the hostility of the work environment, the totality of the circumstances is considered, including âthe frequency of the discriminatory conduct; its severity; whether it is physically threatening or humiliating, or a mere offensive utterance; and whether it unreasonably interferes with an employeeâs work performance.â Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17, 23 , 114 S.Ct. 367 , 126 L.Ed.2d 295 (1993). âAs a general rule, discriminatory incidents must be more than âepisodic; they must be sufficiently continuous and concerted in order to be deemed pervasive.ââ Terry, 336 F.3d at 148 (citing Alfano v. Costello, 294 F.3d 365, 374 (2d Cir.2002) (quoting Perry v. Ethan Allen, Inc., 115 F.3d 143, 149 (2d Cir.1997)); see also Murphy v. Bd. of Educ. of Rochester City Sch. Dist., 273 F.Supp.2d 292, 304 (W.D.N.Y.2003) (court rejected plaintiff-teacherâs hostile work environment claim against defendant-school district and found that, despite having lost numerous committee posts and becoming subjectively âdevastatedâ by his transfer, plaintiff had not shown that his transfer âcreated a âmaterially significant disadvantage.ââ) (quoting Galabya, 202 F.3d at 641 )), aff'd, 106 Fed.Appx. 746 (2d Cir. 2004). While Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and the Complaint allege Defendant subjected Plaintiffs to harassment and intimidation, Colby Reply Decl. Exh. A; Complaint ¶ ¶ 1, 12, other than the additional classroom observations and teaching reassignments in March 2004, no discriminatory conduct, motivated by Plaintiffsâ ages, directed to Plaintiffs by Defendant is mentioned in Plaintiffsâ *560 EEOC Administrative Charges nor are any such facts alleged in the Complaint. Significantly, in its Determination Letters, the EEOC failed to allude to any other acts of discrimination directed to Plaintiffs by Defendant after the March 2004 incidents. Plaintiffsâ Exh. B (passim). While Plaintiffs now insist that Defendantâs âharassment and malice associated with [the teaching] reassignments and increased observations, ... created a hostile work environment, which resulted in a constructive discharge,â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8 (bracketed material added), this assertion is plainly absent from both the Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and their Complaint. Thus, even if Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and the Complaint are liberally read to allege a claim that Defendant subjected Plaintiffs to a hostile work environment, Plaintiffsâ failure to point to any evidence of such a hostile work environment, apart from the additional classroom observations and teaching reassignments which occurred in March 2004, and Plaintiffsâ failure to allege any subsequent constructive discharge, specifically in 2006 as Plaintiffs now maintain, either in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges or the Complaint, resulting from a hostile work environment, is fatal to Plaintiffsâ present assertions of such adverse employment actions in opposition to Defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. See Beckman v. United States Postal Serv., 79 F.Supp.2d 394, 407-08 (S.D.N.Y.2000) (unpleaded claims raised for first time in memorandum in opposition insufficient to avoid summary judgment) (citing Yerdon v. Henry, 91 F.3d 370, 379 (2d Cir.1996)); Duquin v. Dean, 423 F.Supp.2d 411, 413-14 (S.D.N.Y.2006) (absent facts alleged in complaint to support claim raised for first time in plaintiffs memorandum of law in opposition to summary judgment motion, such belated claim not considered). Although the court may look to a partyâs memorandum of law in opposition to a motion to dismiss in order to âclarify allegations in ... [a] complaint whose meaning is unclear,â Pegram v. Herdrich, 530 U.S. 211 , 230 n. 10, 120 S.Ct. 2143 , 147 L.Ed.2d 164 (2000) (citing cases), here the Complaint is not lacking in clarity, rather, it is lacking in factual statements that Defendant created a hostile work environment and constructively discharged Plaintiffs. Thus, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum statements cannot constitute a viable pleading to avoid summary judgment. Notably, Plaintiffs have not sought leave to file an amended complaint to assert a claim based on a hostile work environment or constructive discharge, nor, as noted, Facts, supra, at 551, did Plaintiffs request to conduct discovery to develop evidence, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(f) in order to oppose Defendantâs motion. Even assuming Plaintiffs exhausted required administrative remedies before the EEOC as to Plaintiffsâ charges of Defendantâs harassment and intimidation, creating a hostile work environment, based on Defendantâs changes in Plaintiffsâ teaching assignments and additional classroom observations as stated in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, and liberally construing Plaintiffsâ allegations, Complaint ¶ 1 (âDefendant ... discriminated against [Plaintiffs] ... through harassment and intimidation,â) (bracketed material added), ¶ 12 (same), as stating a hostile work environment claim, such charges and allegations are insufficient as a matter of law to support a claim of an adverse employment action based on such harassment and intimidation by Defendant, the only facts potentially describing a hostile work environment alleged in the Complaint. In other words, although Plaintiffs may have alleged a hostile work environment claim that was properly exhausted before the EEOC, such claimed adverse employment action was limited by its own terms to the Defendantâs discriminatory conduct which *561 occurred in March 2004, and concededly did not lead to any constructive discharge of Plaintiffs at that time. As discussed, Discussion, supra, at 556-59, because the sole basis of such a hostile work environment were the teaching reassignments and the extra classroom observations in 2004, as Plaintiffs allege, the claim is insufficient as a matter of law and Plaintiffs failed to submit any evidence demonstrating Defendant continued to harass and intimidate them on some other legally cognizable basis after this time period. Second, although Plaintiffs maintain, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5, they informed Thompson, the EEOC investigator, on January 11, 2007, the same day the EEOC issued Plaintiffsâ Right to Sue Letters formally closing the EEOCâs investigation of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, Plaintiffsâ Exhibit A, that, because of Defendantâs continued harassment, they were compelled to retire at the end of June 2006, Plaintiffs failed to include in the record a copy of such letter. As no allegations of a hostile work environment, continuing after Defendantâs March 2004 classroom reassignments and classroom observations of Plaintiffs, and Plaintiffsâ newly alleged consequent constructive discharges are included in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, Plaintiffsâ present assertion of such claims in opposition to Defendantâs motion is time-barred because Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that these allegations were presented to the EEOC in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, and the statutory 300-day period commencing March 5, 2004, the earliest (and last) day in which Plaintiffs asserted Defendantâs discriminatory acts occurred, Facts, supra, at 550, -within which Plaintiffs were required to file such charges with the EEOC, see Holowecki, 440 F.3d at 562 (ADEA charge required to be filed within the earlier of 300 days after the alleged unlawful practice or within 30 days after termination of state agency investigation), has long-since passed. Finally, as with Plaintiffsâ claims of Defendantâs continued harassment and intimidation resulting in a hostile work environment occurring after Defendantâs discriminatory actions in March 2004, as found by the EEOC, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 8, Plaintiffsâ belated claims of their constructive discharges which occurred, according to Plaintiffs, in February 2006 when Plaintiffs advised Defendant of their intent to retire at the end of Defendantâs 2005-2006 school year, nothing in the record supports Plaintiffsâ contention, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4-5, that such allegation was presented to the EEOC or is reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges of Defendantâs ADEA violations which were considered, or could reasonably have been considered, by the EEOC sufficient to overcome Defendantâs argument that such claims were not administratively exhausted. Defendantâs Memorandum at 5-6. Specifically, Defendant maintains that Plaintiffsâ attempt to raise a constructive discharge claim, first asserted by Plaintiffs at the Rule 16(b) conference and, later, in opposition to Defendantâs motion based on assertions in Plaintiffsâ Memorandum, must be rejected as Plaintiffs failed to exhaust their administrative remedies with respect to such claims. Id. âExhaustion of administrative remedies through the EEOC is âan essential elementâ of the Title VII and ADEA statutory schemes and, as such, a precondition to bringing claims in federal court.â 12 Leg *562 nani v. Alitalia Linee Aeree Italiane, S.P.A, 274 F.3d 683, 686 (2d Cir.2001). As noted, Discussion, supra, at 558-59, to exhaust administrative remedies under the ADEA, Plaintiffs must have filed then-complaints with the EEOC within 300 days of the alleged discriminatory conduct. 29 U.S.C. § 626 (d)(2); Holowecki, 440 F.3d at 562. âA federal court may only consider those ADEA claims that were included in the original EEOC charge or those that are reasonably related to that charge,â Del Franco v. New York City Off-Track Betting Corp., 429 F.Supp.2d 529, 541 (E.D.N.Y.2006) (internal quotation omitted), aff 'd, 245 Fed.Appx. 42 (2d Cir.2007) (table), or those claims which can âreasonably be expected to grow out of the charge of discrimination.â Id. (quoting Holtz v. Rockefeller & Co., Inc., 258 F.3d 62, 83 (2d Cir.2001)); Cunningham, v. Consol. Edison Inc., 2006 WL 842914 , at *13 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 28, 2006) (â[W]here subsequent claims are reasonably related to claims brought in an EEOC charge, the subsequent claims are not barred.â). A claim not specifically included in an EEOC charge is âreasonably relatedâ to the charge if, for example, the subsequent claim is one for retaliation or where a subsequent claim â âalleges further incidents of discrimination carried out in precisely the same manner.â â Katz v. Beth Israel Medical Center, 2001 WL 11064 , at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 4, 2001) (quoting Butts v. City of New York Depât of Hous. Pres. & Dev., 990 F.2d 1397 at 1401 (2d Cir.1993)). Here, Plaintiffs have not shown a reasonable relationship between the Defendantâs discriminatory practices, specifically the additional classroom observations and new teaching assignments in 2004, as Plaintiffs alleged in their EEOC Administrative Charges and Plaintiffsâ subsequent retirements in 2006, now asserted by Plaintiffs, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5, as a constructive discharges constituting an adverse employment action by Defendant actionable under the ADEA. Particularly, Plaintiffs contend that their constructive discharge claims were within the scope of the EEOC investigation directed to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and, as such, are reasonably related to these charges and thus exhausted, because Plaintiffs informed the EEOC investigator, Thompson, of Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge claims before the EEOC investigation was formally concluded. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5. According to Plaintiffs, they informed Thompson of their retirement which occurred âat the end of the 2005-2006 school year due to the harassment related to this charge,â Facts, supra, at 551 (quoting Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 5) by a letter dated January 11, 2007 from their attorney, the same attorney of record in this action. However, unless Plaintiffs hand-delivered such letter to Thompson that same day, and before the EEOC issued the Right to Sue Letters, also dated January 11, 2007, Plaintiffsâ Exh. A, Plaintiffs could not have so notified the EEOC of their eventual retirement in 2006 before the conclusion of the EEOCâs investigation of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges which were still then formally pending before the EEOC. Notably, Plaintiffs neither allege, nor aver by affidavit, that they hand-delivered the letters to the EEOC investigator on January 11, 2007, nor explain how the investigator could plausibly have received the letters on that date. *563 Moreover, nowhere in the Determination Letters, issued seven months after Plaintiffs notified Defendant on February 24, 2006 of their intention to retire in June 2006, did the EEOC mention the subject of Plaintiffsâ eventual retirement, or even their intent to retire in the future, voluntarily or otherwise. 13 The absence of any reference to Plaintiffsâ expected or eventual retirement in the EEOCâs Determinations Letters amply supports the conclusion that, contrary to Plaintiffsâ present representation, Plaintiffsâ letter (assuming such letter was in fact sent) to the EEOC investigator was not received before the EEOC terminated its investigation of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, and, on this record, no reasonable juror could find otherwise. Significantly, despite receiving the EEOCâs September 26, 2006 Determination Letters stating that Plaintiffs had not accepted Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive had âelected not to retireâ, until January 11, 2007, nearly four months later Plaintiffs made no effort to inform the EEOC that they considered their 2006 retirements, which took effect three months prior to the issuance of the EEOCâs Determination Letters, were constructive discharges caused by Defendantâs age-related discrimination against Plaintiffs that created a continuing hostile work environment maintained by Defendant after March 2004, including, presumably, the continuation of Plaintiffsâ assignments to teach fifth grade at the Fletcher School for the next two school years. These undisputed facts demonstrate that the allegations in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges turned on Defendantâs effort, as Plaintiffs had asserted, to pressure Plaintiffs into accepting the Early Retirement Incentive to effect Plaintiffsâ retirements at the end of the 2003-2004 school year, not that Plaintiffs had alleged a hostile work environment that could lead to their retirement two years later. The EEOCâs investigation was accordingly limited to Plaintiffsâ allegations as stated in the Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and Plaintiffsâ present hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims are not reasonably related to the scope of the EEOCâs investigation. Plaintiffsâ present hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims are predicated on the facts, now alleged by Plaintiffs, that after the events of March 2004, Plaintiffs were compelled to teach fifth grade under the burden of Defendantâs discriminatory reassignments for the next two school years, thereby eventually achieving Defendantâs objective of forcing Plaintiffs to retire in 2006, albeit not in response to the Early Retirement Incentive offer. These facts are at such variance with the facts alleged by Plaintiffs in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges as to require an investigation by the EEOC of âevents differing in time and natureâ rendering Plaintiffsâ present claims not reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ initial EEOC charges of Defendantâs age discrimination. Wiley v. Citibank, N.A., *564 2000 WL 122148 *4 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 1, 2000) (failure to exhaust occurred where â[plaintiff alleges factually distinct discriminatory practices in her constructive discharge claim that would require an investigation of events differing in time and natureâ from the scope of agency investigation) (plaintiffs constructive discharge in 1995 not alleged to be âdirectly a resultâ of discrimination complaints filed with the agency in 1990 and 1992); see also Bridges v. Eastman Kodak Co., 822 F.Supp. 1020, 1026 (S.D.N.Y.1993) (â[T]he factual allegations in the EEOC charge, rather than any legal theories stated therein, should be the focus for determining whether a cause of action is reasonably related to the plaintiffs EEOC charge.â). Here, nothing in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges could reasonably be understood to state Plaintiffsâ present assertions that a hostile work environment had been, first created in March 2004, was likely to eventuate in a constructive discharge when Plaintiffs decided to retire in 2006. Certainly, a fair reading of the EEOCâs Determination Letters indicate the EEOC did not understand Plaintiffs to have alleged any such facts. See Plaintiffsâ Exh. B. Accordingly, Plaintiffsâ present hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims differ significantly in âtime and nature,â Wiley, 2000 WL 122148 *4, from the EEOCâs actual, or reasonably expected, scope of investigation, and therefore are not reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges. Plaintiffs nevertheless maintain that their constructive discharge claims were exhausted because such claims fell within the scope of the EEOCâs investigation as â âfurther incidentsâ of discriminatory treatment identical to those alleged in the EEOC charge.â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4 (citing Hudson v. Potter, 497 F.Supp.2d 491, 503 (W.D.N.Y.2007) (citing Butts, 990 F.2d at 1402 )). However, this exception to the exhaustion requirement applies where the plaintiff âallegesâ such further âincidentsâ of discrimination. Hudson, 497 F.Supp.2d at 503 (underlining added). Here, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 558, the record is devoid of any factual allegations of such further âincidents.â While, based on the record, it may be presumed that Plaintiffs continued to be assigned to teach fifth grade from September 2004 to June 2006, no discriminatorily motivated additional classroom observations of Plaintiffsâ teaching skills or other forms of extra administrative scrutiny are stated by Plaintiff to have occurred after March 2004, and Plaintiffs make no attempt to explain why the EEOC should have been reasonably prompted to suspect that Plaintiffs, not having acquiesced in Defendantâs alleged effort to force Plaintiffs to retire early, ie., at the end of the 2003-2004 school year, by accepting the Early Retirement Incentive offer, would nevertheless continue their employment with Defendant resulting in their coerced retirements in 2006. Although the EEOC found Defendantâs actions in March 2004 constituted discriminatory actions, nothing in the Determination Letters suggests the EEOC also found Defendantâs conduct created a hostile work environment causing Plaintiffsâ constructive discharges letter in 2004 or thereafter. On this record, no reasonable juror could find otherwise, and Defendant is therefore entitled to summary judgment on this issue. Plaintiffs also maintain that because they accused Defendant of âharassment and intimidationâ in their EEOC Administrative Charges in 2004 and later, in 2007, alleged in the Complaint, Complaint ¶ ¶ 1, 12, that such harassment and intimidation were based on âincreased formal [classroom] observations and administrative visits, and [that Plaintiffs were] reassigned in an effort to force them to take the Early Retirement Incentive,â Complaint ¶ 12, Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge claims *565 are reasonably related to the allegations in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, as âno factually distinct events that differed in time or nature precipitated the [2006] retirement.â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 6 (bracketed material added). For an allegation of discriminatory conduct to be reasonably related to an EEOC administrative charge, such additional and unpleaded claim must be one that can âreasonably be expected to grow out of the charge of discrimination,â Del Franco, 429 F.Supp.2d at 541 , or one that is âreasonably relatedâ to the original claim. Cunningham, 2006 WL 842914 at *13. See Curry v. Federal Express Corp., 2006 WL 839426 , at *6 (W.D.N.Y. Mar. 28, 2006) (failure of plaintiff to allege constructive discharge in EEOC administrative charge of defendantâs Title VII violations requires summary judgment against such claim). See also Chandler, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1179 . Given that after the March 2004 incidents Plaintiffs waited nearly two years to announce their intention to retire at the end of the 2005-2006 school year and alleged, in either Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, any subsequent administrative charges filed with the EEOC, or the Complaint, no additional specific acts of harassment or intimidation against Defendant, to which Plaintiffs were subjected during such two year period, to find that Plaintiffsâ eventual retirement in 2006 was âreasonably related,â Del Franco, 429 F.Supp.2d at 541 , or could âreasonably be expected to grow out of the [Plaintiffsâ] charge of discrimination,â Cunningham, 2006 WL 842914 at *13, or constitutes a further âincident of discrimination carried out in precisely the same manner alleged in the EEOC charged,â Butts, 990 F.2d at 1402-03 , based on the discriminatory incidents attributed to Defendant in March 2004, is unsupported by the facts. Nor, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 556-57, have Plaintiffs pointed to any evidence to require trial on this issue. Thus, there is no merit in Plaintiffsâ contention that their present claims of hostile work environment and constructive discharge have been administratively exhausted, and Defendantâs request for summary judgment cannot be avoided on this ground. Plaintiffsâ reliance on Whitlow v. Visiting Nurse Assoc., 420 F.Supp.2d 92 (W.D.N.Y.2005), Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 7, is unavailing. In Whitlow , the court found plaintiff had exhausted her administrative remedies where plaintiff charged that defendant had changed her working conditions so as to render her âunable to do her job,â thereby setting forth facts that could be reasonably expected to support a claim that defendant had thereby created a hostile work environment compelling plaintiff to resign two months after filing her EEOC charge. Whitlow, 420 F.Supp.2d at 102 . Here, Plaintiffs never charged before the EEOC in 2004 that their teaching reassignments would make it difficult to continue to teach at the Fletcher School by complying with Defendantâs change in Plaintiffsâ teaching assignments, for the immediate future, and certainly not for a continuing period of nearly two years from September 2004, the effective date of the teaching reassignments Defendant announced in March 2004. Rather, Plaintiffs charged only that Defendantâs announcement of the reassignments were a form of harassment calculated to force Plaintiffs to accept the Early Retirement Incentive, an effort that Plaintiffs concede proved unsuccessful. As such, Plaintiffsâ 2004 charges filed with the EEOC are inconsistent with their present allegations of the existence of a hostile work environment, created by Defendantâs teaching reassignments of Plaintiffs, lasting over two years thereafter which eventually compelled Plaintiffs to retire earlier than they might have otherwise. Over that same period, the EEOC considered Plaintiffsâ initial charges and its *566 failure to make any reference to Plaintiffsâ 2006 retirements demonstrates Plaintiffsâ allegations of hostile work and constructive discharge are not reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges. Whitlow is therefore factually distinguishable, and does not support Plaintiffsâ assertion that their present hostile work environment and related constructive discharge claims were administratively exhausted. Even if Plaintiffsâ respective new teaching assignments were found to be reasonably related to Plaintiffsâ age-discrimination claims presented to the EEOC, no evidence is submitted by Plaintiffs upon which it could be found that such assignments were so materially adverse as to be actionable or, for that matter, that a reasonable juror could find the new teaching assignments substantially and adversely affected Plaintiffsâ retirement decisions nearly two years later. Discussion, supra, at 556-59. As in Galabya , Plaintiffs have not shown that their designations to teach fifth grade for the 2004-2005 school year amounted to âassignment[s] that [were] materially less prestigious, materially less suited to [their] skills and expertise, or materially less conducive to career advancement.â Galabya, 202 F.3d at 641 . Moreover, the record is devoid of evidence of any further classroom observations of Plaintiffs, negative evaluations, any other such observations of Plaintiffs or other administrative actions directed to Plaintiffs by Defendant, or other evidence of discriminatory conduct, including acts constituting harassment or intimidation, against Plaintiffs based on Plaintiffsâ ages by Defendant alleged to have occurred during the two-year period between the classroom observations of Plaintiffs by Defendant in March of 2004 and Plaintiffsâ later decision to take retirement as they announced in February 2006. Although Plaintiffs insist that Plaintiffsâ constructive discharges in 2006 were the result of âfurther incidentsâ similar to Defendantâs discriminatory conduct in March 2004, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 4, the record reveals no allegations or evidence of such âfurther incidents.â. Moreover, as noted, Discussion, supra, at 556-57, nowhere in this record do Plaintiffs aver that but for their continued fifth grade teaching assignments, as directed by Defendant in March 2004, they would not have retired in 2006, but, rather, would have continued to teach first and second grades at the Fletcher School as they had prior to September 2004. Although Plaintiffs contend that then-opposition to Defendantâs motion reveals âclear issues of material factsâ supporting Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 2 (referencing Point III at 8 of Plaintiffsâ Memorandum), a careful reading of the referenced discussion reveals only a reiteration by Plaintiffs that âDefendantâs discriminatory reassignment and increased supervision of Plaintiffs created a hostile work environment sufficient to maintain an ADEA claim.â Id. at 9. However, Plaintiffs point to no evidence of any such reassignments (assuming the Plaintiffsâ fifth-grade teaching assignments were discriminatorily continued after expiration of the Early Retirement Incentive offer in April 2004) or increased supervision of Plaintiffs after Defendantâs March 2004 actions, and Plaintiffsâ subjective (and apparently previously undisclosed) perceptions of Defendantâs âharassment and maliceâ associated with these purported actions do not constitute admissible evidence. See Beyer v. County of Nassau, 524 F.3d 160, 164 (2d Cir.2008) (plaintiffs âsubjective, personal disappointmentâ insufficient to establish a triable issue of the existence of a hostile work condition) (citing Williams, 368 F.3d at 128 and quoting Galabya, 202 F.3d at 640 ). Even if the court were to consider Plaintiffsâ proffer of the EEOCâs Determination Letters, Plaintiffsâ Exh. B, as evidence favorable to *567 Plaintiffs in opposition to Defendantâs motion, see Discussion, supra, at 555, the EEOCâs findings are based solely on Defendantâs actions which occurred in March 2004, specifically Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments and classroom observations, conduct that is insufficient as a matter of law to establish an adverse employment action under the ADEA. Discussion, supra, at 556-59. As such, no reasonable juror could find that Plaintiffsâ March 2004 evaluations and the announced teaching reassignments were other than isolated incidents, neither severe in nature nor part of a continuing pattern of discrimination against Plaintiffs capable of creating an abusive working environment resulting in a subsequent constructive discharge. See Harris, 510 U.S. at 23 , 114 S.Ct. 367 ; Terry, 336 F.3d at 147-48 ; Cruz, 202 F.3d at 570 . Therefore, based on this record, no reasonable juror could find that Plaintiffsâ assignments to teach fifth grade, grades Plaintiffs were undisputedly qualified to teach and which were permitted under the CBA, and the two classroom observations in March 2004, together with the April 2003 classroom observations of Plaintiffs, the only evidence of age-related discrimination by Defendant relied on by Plaintiffs in opposition to Defendantâs motion, were sufficiently severe or pervasive to create a hostile work environment resulting in Plaintiffsâ alleged constructive discharges. Nor could a reasonable juror find, on this record, that a reasonable employee in Plaintiffsâ position would have required approximately one and one-half years of being subjected to Defendantâs fifth-grade teaching assignments before deciding that such working conditions were so intolerable as to compel Plaintiffsâ to retire four months after serving notice of their intent to do so. 14 Accordingly, Defendantâs request for summary judgment directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, including Plaintiffsâ hostile work environment claim and Plaintiffsâ claim for constructive discharge, should be GRANTED. Defendant alternatively seeks judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c) (âRule 12(c)â) directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, in particular Plaintiffsâ unpleaded constructive discharge claim. Defendantâs Memorandum at 9. If the Chief District Judge agrees that Defendantâs motion for summary judgment on Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims should be GRANTED, it is unnecessary to address Defendantâs request for judgment on the pleadings directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims pursuant to Rule 12(c). However, in the interest of completeness, the court turns to Defendantâs Rule 12(c) request. A motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) may be granted âwhere material facts are undisputed and where a judgment on the merits is possible merely by considering the contents of the pleadings.â Sellers v. M.C. Floor Crafters, Inc., 842 F.2d 639, 642 (2d Cir.1988) (citing National Fidelity Life Ins. Co. v. Karaganis, 811 F.2d 357, 358 (7th Cir.1987)). *568 â[T]o prevail on a hostile work environment claim under ... the ADEA, a plaintiff must show that the harassment was sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victimâs employment and create an abusive working environment.â Terry v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 128, 147 (2d Cir.2003) (internal quotations omitted). In particular, Plaintiffs must show âeither that a single incident was extraordinarily severe, or that a series of incidents were sufficiently continuous and concerted to have altered the conditions of [Plaintiffsâ] working environment.â Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc., 202 F.3d 560, 570 (2d Cir.2000) (internal quotation omitted). For a plaintiff to establish a constructive discharge claim, â â[t]he trier of fact must be satisfied that the ... working conditions would have been so difficult or unpleasant that a reasonable person in the employeeâs shoes would have felt compelled to resign.â â Pena, 702 F.2d at 325 (quoting Rosado v. Santiago, 562 F.2d 114, 119 (1st Cir.1977)). Here, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 558-59, a fair reading of the Complaint demonstrates that other than Defendantâs March 2004 teaching assignments and classroom observations, Plaintiffs did not allege any actions by Defendant after March 2004 created a hostile work environment. Even if Plaintiffsâ allegations that Defendantâs actions in changing Plaintiffsâ teaching assignments and subjecting them to improper classroom observations are considered as alleging a hostile work environment, such allegations in support of this claim are insufficient, as a matter of law, to satisfy Plaintiffsâ burden to establish an adverse employment action as a required element of Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. Discussion, supra, at 556-59. If Plaintiffs believed, as they now assert, Defendant continued to harass and intimidate them after the expiration in April 2004 of Defendantâs Early Retirement Incentive offer extended to Plaintiffs in March 2004, including a continuation of Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignment to teach fifth grade, starting with the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year, thereby created an ongoing hostile work environment, Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges and the Complaint are surprisingly devoid of any allegations describing the factual basis of such harassment and intimidation as required by Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2) (requiring âa short plain statement of the claim.â) and Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) (to avoid dismissal for failure to state a claim complaint must allege sufficiently âfacts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.â) Iqbal v. Hasty, 490 F.3d 143, 156 (2d Cir.2007) (quoting Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 , 127 S.Ct. 1955, 1974 , 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007)). Further, the Complaint does not plead Plaintiffs were constructively discharged, nor did Plaintiffs present this claim to the EEOC. Discussion, supra, at 559. Rather, Plaintiffsâ assertion of constructive discharge was made for the first time on the record when Plaintiffs, through their attorney, raised such claim during the Rule 16(b) hearing, Discussion, supra, at 552, and, later, in Plaintiffsâ Memorandum in opposition to Defendantâs motion. Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 2. As Plaintiffsâ belated assertion of a constructive discharge claim based on their 2006 retirement decision, which occurred well after Defendantâs discriminatory actions in 2004, was neither administratively exhausted nor pleaded in this action, the court will not consider such allegation of an adverse employment action in opposition to Defendantâs motion. See Kearney v. County of Rockland, 373 F.Supp.2d 434, 440-41 (S.D.N.Y.2005) (plaintiffs attempt to present hostile work environment claim in legal memorandum in opposition to summary judgment will not be considered as a basis to avoid summary judgment) (citing cases). *569 Thus, should the Chief District Court Judge reach the merits of Defendantâs Rule 12(c) request, as the Complaint fails to allege either an actionable hostile work environment or constructive discharge, or any other material and adverse change of working conditions sufficient to demonstrate Plaintiffs suffered an adverse employment action by Defendant actionable under the ADEA, Chandler, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1183 (ADEA requires as an element materially adverse changes in terms and conditions of employment), and no evidence is presented to demonstrate the existence of material issues of fact relating to such issues, Defendantâs motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims should be GRANTED. 15 II. Plaintiffsâ NYHRL Claims A. Dismissal Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (c)(3) As noted, Background, supra, at 547, in Plaintiffsâ Second Cause of Action, Plaintiffs alleged Defendant also violated their rights under Section 290 of the New York Executive Law (âPlaintiffsâ NYHRL Claimâ). Although not addressed by the parties, where the district court has dismissed upon summary judgment all claims over which it has original jurisdiction, in this case Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, Plaintiffsâ First Cause of Action, in the absence of exceptional circumstances, the court may decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ pendent state law claim under the NYHRL pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (c)(3) (â§ 1367(c)(3)â). See Birch v. Pioneer Credit Recovery, Inc., 2007 WL 1703914 , *5 (W.D.N.Y. June 8, 2007) (citing and quoting Walker v. Time Life Films, Inc., 784 F.2d 44, 53 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1159 , 106 S.Ct. 2278 , 90 L.Ed.2d 721 (1986)). It is fundamental that a district court is required to raise, sua sponte, questions going to its subject matter jurisdiction. Digitel, Inc. v. MCI WorldCom, Inc., 239 F.3d 187 , 189-90 & n. 2 (2d Cir.2001) (district court may sua sponte dismiss for obvious lack of subject matter jurisdiction). âWhen deciding [whether] to exercise supplemental jurisdiction, a federal court should consider and -weigh in each case, and at every stage of litigation, the values of judicial economy, convenience, fairness, and comity.â Donlon v. Bd. of Educ. of Greece Cent. Sch. Dist., 2007 WL 4553932 , at * 4 (W.D.N.Y. Dec. 20, 2007) (bracketed material added). âIn general, where the federal claims are dismissed before trial, the state law claims should be dismissed as well.â Marcus v. AT & T Corp., 138 F.3d 46 , 57 (2d Cir.1998); see also Giordano v. City of N.Y., 274 F.3d 740, 754 (2d Cir.2001) (once federal claims are dismissed, whether plaintiff is disabled under New York state law âis a question best left to the courts of the State of New Yorkâ). â[T]the discretion implicit in the word âmayâ in subdivision (c) of § 1367 permits the district court to weigh and balance several factors, including considerations of judicial economy, convenience and fairness to litigants.â Purgess v. Sharrock, 33 F.3d 134, 138 (2d Cir.1994) (citing Castellano v. Bd. of Tr., 937 F.2d 752 , 758 (2d Cir.1991)). Where âdismissal of the federal claim occurs âlate in the action, after there has been substantial expendi *570 ture in time, effort, and money in preparing the dependent claims, knocking them down with a belated rejection of supplemental jurisdiction may not be fair. Nor is it by any means necessary.â â Purgess, 33 F.3d at 138 (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 1367 , Practice Commentary (1993) at 835). A district court abuses its discretion by exercising supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims, despite the dismissal of all federal claims, âwhere the federal claims had been dismissed at a relatively early stage and the remaining claims involved issues of state law that were unsettled.â Valencia ex. rel. Franco v. Lee, 316 F.3d 299, 306 (2d Cir.2003) (underlining added) (citing Giordano v. City of New York, 274 F.3d 740, 754 (2d Cir.2001)); see also Oliveira v. Frito-Lay, Inc., 251 F.3d 56, 64 (2d Cir.2001); Seabrook v. Jacobson, 153 F.3d 70, 71-73 (2d Cir.1998). In contrast, a district courtâs decision to retain state claims after dismissing all federal claims where the question arises late in the proceedings will be affirmed. See Purgess, 33 F.3d at 139 (holding district court did not abuse its discretion by exercising supplemental jurisdiction over state claims where four of five federal claims were dismissed on the eve of trial, final federal claim was dismissed after the close of all the evidence, the parties had spent years preparing for trial in federal court, jury had heard evidence for several days and was ready to begin deliberations, and it would have been wasteful to subject case to another full trial before a different tribunal). Here, as it is recommended that summary judgment, or, alternatively, judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(c) be GRANTED as to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, Plaintiffsâ sole federal claim, over which this court has subject matter jurisdiction, the court finds that the Chief District Judge could decline, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (c)(2),(3), to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ state law NYHRL claims, thereby allowing Plaintiffs to refile such claims in New York Supreme Court. Procedurally, this action is âat a relatively early stage,â Valencia ex. rel. Franco, 316 F.3d at 306 , as, by order dated September 22, 2008, at the request of the parties, any on-going discovery will conclude on March 31, 2009, and mediation sessions may continue, in accordance with Section 5.11 of the courtâs ADR Plan, until June 26, 2009 (Doc. No. 29). Thus, if summary judgment or judgment on the pleadings is granted as to Plaintiffsâ sole federal ADEA claims, as recommended, dismissal of Plaintiffsâ pendent state NYHRL claims, Plaintiffsâ Second Cause of Action, would not be an abuse of discretion. Id. However, although the instant action remains in an early stage based on the absence of extensive pre-trial discovery, and therefore warrants dismissal pursuant to § 1367(c) of Plaintiffsâ pendent NYHRL claims, because granting Defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, as recommended, effectively disposes of the merits of Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, see Wanamaker v. Columbian Rope Company, 108 F.3d 462, 467 (2d Cir.1997) (âAge discrimination claims brought under the New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Exec. Law §§ 290-301 , are governed by the same standards as those brought under the ADEA.â) (citing Spence v. Maryland Casualty Co., 995 F.2d 1147, 1158 (2d Cir.1993)), the court finds dismissal of Plaintiffsâ pendent state claims with the consequence of refiling such claims in state court would result in judicial inefficiency and an unnecessary burden on the New York Supreme Court. See Miller Aviation v. Milwaukee County Bd. of Supervisors, 273 F.3d 722 , 731-32 (7th Cir.2001) (abuse of discretion to dismiss state cause of action when disposition of federal claim left nothing of state claim for state court to *571 decide, or when substantial investment of judicial resources have already been expended and dismissal would result in a potential âduplication of effortâ and judicial inefficiency) (quoting Wright v. Associated Ins. Companies, Inc., 29 F.3d 1244 , 1251 (7th Cir.1994)). See also Price v. General Motors Corporation, 2007 WL 2461784 , *5 (W.D.N.Y. Aug. 24, 2007) (Arcara, C.J.) (granting summary judgment on plaintiffs ADEA and NYHRL claims where state pendent claim subject to same standards as federal ADEA claim and noting that the federal and state claims are âintertwinedâ) (citing Raskin v. Wyatt Co., 125 F.3d 55, 60 (2d Cir.1997)) (ADEA and NYHRL claims receive same analysis as Title VII claims). Accordingly, it is recommended, based on this exceptional circumstance, if Defendantâs motion, directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims is GRANTED, that the Chief District Judge retain supplemental jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims and address the merits of Defendantâs motion directed to such claims. B. Notice of Claim and Statute of Limitations Requirements Applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL Claims 16 1. Timeliness of Plaintiffsâ Notice In the event the Chief District Judge retains jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ state claims, Defendantâs Rule 12(c) motion directed to such claims should be GRANTED. Specifically, Defendant first argues that Plaintiffsâ state law claims pursuant to the NYHRL be dismissed pursuant to Rule 12(c) for failure to plead, as required by applicable state law, that Plaintiffs complied with notice of claim requirements, applicable to a school district, like Defendant, under New York law. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 2. As discussed, a claim is subject to a judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c), where the relevant facts are undisputed and the movant is entitled to a judgment based on the allegations contained in the pleadings. Discussion, supra, at 563-64. Specifically, Defendant contends that Plaintiffs failed to alleged in the Complaint Plaintiffs filed a notice of claim with the District as required by Section 3813[1] of the New York Education Law (â§ 3813â), 17 and that even if Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, mailed to the District on June 30, 2004 by the EEOC, may constitute valid notices of claim under § 3813, the mailing of Plaintiffsâ EEOC charges to the District did not satisfy § 3813âs prerequisites to suit based on Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims because such notice was not timely served upon the District, particularly its governing body, as required by § 3813. Defendantâs Memorandum at 3-4. Subsequent to filing its motion, Defendant, in a letter to the court, further contends that Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims are barred by the applicable New York statute of limitations, ie., the claims were not filed in this court within one-year of their accrual as required by N.Y. Educ. Law § 3813 [2 â b] (â§ 3813[2 â b]â). Defendantâs Letter (citing Amorosi v. S. Colonie Indep. Cent. Sch. Dist., 9 N.Y.3d 367 , 849 N.Y.S.2d 485 , 880 N.E.2d 6, 8 (2007)) (citing § 3813[2-b]). In opposition, Plaintiffs contend that their EEOC Administrative Charges, submitted by mail to the Dis *572 trictâs Superintendent by the EEOC, comply with the notice of claim requirements under § 3813, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 3-4, and, in Plaintiffsâ Letter, Plaintiffs also, inter alia, 18 assert that the state one-year period of limitations period, under § 3813[2-b], applicable to their NYHRL claims, were tolled pending the Districtâs receipt of the EEOCâs Determination Letters in 2006. Plaintiffs cite no authority in support of this proposition, and Defendant did not respond to this argument. New York Education Law § 3813 requires an aggrieved party, seeking to commence an action under state law against a school district, file a timely notice of claim. Rure Assocs., Inc. v. DiNardi Const. Corp., 917 F.2d 1332 , 1334-35 (2d Cir.1990) (citing In re Bd. of Educ. of Enlarged Ogdensburg City Sch. Dist., 37 N.Y.2d 283 , 372 N.Y.S.2d 45 , 333 N.E.2d 353, 356 (1975)). Specifically, § 3813, as relevant, provides No action or special proceeding, for any cause whatever, ... shall be prosecuted or maintained against any school district ... unless it shall appear by and as an allegation in the complaint ... a written verified claim upon which such action or special proceeding is founded was presented to the governing body of said district or school within three months after the accrual of such claim. N.Y. Educ. Law § 3813 [1]. â[T]he purpose of section 3813 of the Education Law is to give a school district prompt notice of claims âso that investigation may be made before it is too late for investigation to be efficient.â â Parochial Bus Sys., Inc. v. Bd. of Educ. of New York, 60 N.Y.2d 539 , 470 N.Y.S.2d 564 , 458 N.E.2d 1241, 1244 (1983) (quoting Matter of Bd. of Educ. [Wager Constr. Corp.], 37 N.Y.2d 283 , 372 N.Y.S.2d 45 , 333 N.E.2d 353 (1975)). âSatisfaction of [the § 3813âs notice] requirements is a condition precedent to bringing an action against a school district or board of education .... â Parochial Bus Sys., Inc., 470 N.Y.S.2d 564 , 458 N.E.2d at 1245 (bracketed material added). To be compliant with § 3813, a notice of claim must disclose the nature of the claim, as well as when, where and how the claim arose. Donlon v. Bd. of Educ. of Greece Cent. Sch. Dist., 2007 WL 108470 , at *2 (W.D.N.Y. Jan. 12, 2007). Courts have held that timely service of a plaintiffs EEOC employment discrimination charge upon a school district substantially complies with § 3813. Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 , at *3 (citing cases); Kushner v. Valenti, 285 F.Supp.2d 314, 316 (E.D.N.Y. 2003) (service of EEOC charge on districtâs personnel director constituted âsufficientâ compliance with § 3813). Contra Santiago v. Newburgh Enlarged City School Dist., 434 F.Supp.2d 193, 196 (S.D.N.Y.2006). For purposes of complying with the notice of claim prerequisites under § 3813, a plaintiffs claim against a school district accrues âwhen [plaintiffs] damages accrued (as distinguished from the event which incurs them), that is when their damages are ascertainable.â In re Bd. of Educ. of Enlarged Ogdensburg City Sch. Dist, 372 N.Y.S.2d 45 , 333 N.E.2d at 357 (citing cases) (bracketed material added; material in parenthesis in original). See also Hoger v. Thomann, 189 A.D.2d 1048 , 592 N.Y.S.2d 887, 888 (3d Depât.1993) (plaintiffs claims based on sex discrimination accrued when school board terminated plaintiff following supervisorâs adverse evaluation allegedly based on plaintiffs sex, not while plaintiff was subjected to such evaluations); see also Jamieson v. *573 Poughkeepsie City Sch. Dist., 195 F.Supp.2d 457, 467 (S.D.N.Y.2002) (plaintiffs race discrimination claim under NYHRL accrued when school board voted not to renew plaintiffs contract as school superintendent). Generally, â[s]tate notice of claim statutes apply to pendent state law claims in federal court.â Longi v. County of Suffolk, 2008 WL 858997 , at *8 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 27, 2008) (citing Hardy v. New York City Health & Hosp. Corp., 164 F.3d 789, 793 (2d Cir.1999)); see also Maloney v. McFarland Johnson, Inc., 2006 WL 2135788 , at *9 n. 10 (W.D.N.Y. July 28, 2006) (applying state law to diversity action to determine when action was commenced and if tolled). âIt is well established that the notice of claim requirements of § 3813 is [sic ] applicable to employment discrimination claims brought against a school district pursuant to the [NYHRL].â Newman v. LeRoy Cent. Sch. Dist., 2008 WL 974699 , at *2 n. 2 (W.D.N.Y. Apr. 8, 2008) (internal quotation omitted) (bracketed material added); see also Courtemanche v. Enlarged City Sch. Dist. of Middletown, N.Y., 686 F.Supp. 1025, 1032 (S.D.N.Y. 1988) (§ 3813 applied to the pendent state law claim and holding § 3813âs requirements âare substantive, not proceduralâ). Under § 3813, Plaintiffs, as a prerequisite to suit against the District, must âplead and prove compliance with the requirements of § 3813.â Grennan v. Nassau County, 2007 WL 952067 , at *17 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 29, 2007) (citing Warner v. Village of Goshen Police Dept., 256 F.Supp.2d 171, 175 (S.D.N.Y.2003); Stoetzel v. Wappingers Cent. Sch. Dist., 166 A.D.2d 643 , 561 N.Y.S.2d 71, 72 (2d Depât. 1990)). 19 See also Courtemanche v. Enlarged City School Dist. of the City of Middletown, New York, 686 F.Supp. 1025, 1032 (S.D.N.Y.1988) (§ 3813âs notice of claim requirements are substantive and applicable to New York state law pendent claims). Here, Plaintiffs represented to the EEOC, Colby Reply Deck Exh. A, and alleged in the Complaint, Complaint ¶ ¶ 12-13, that Defendantâs assignment of Plaintiffs to teach fifth grade and the additional classroom observations following Plaintiffsâ teaching reassignments in March 2004 constituted discriminatory adverse employment actions by Defendant. However, in the Second Cause of Action, alleging Defendantâs actions as the basis for Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, the Complaint fails to allege that written notices of Plaintiffsâ claims were presented to the Defendant in strict compliance with § 3813, and refused by Defendant as also required by § 3813. N.Y. Educ. Law. § 3813 [1]. Relevantly, the three-month period, established by § 3813, within which to do so has long-since passed. Thus, Plaintiffs did not in their allegations in the Complaint, and cannot now, comply with § 3813. Moreover, even if, as Plaintiffs presently insist, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 7, Plaintiffs could not have asserted constructive discharge claims in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, based on their subsequent respective retirements in 2006, before such claim accrued in 2006, Plaintiffs do not explain why they failed to serve a timely notice of claim, in accordance with *574 § 3813, with Defendant based on their 2006 retirements asserting Plaintiffs were constructively discharged as adverse employment actions by Defendant under the NYHRL. Wanamaker, 108 F.3d at 467 (âAge discrimination claims brought under the New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Exec. Law §§ 290-301 , are governed by the same standards as those brought under the ADEA.â). This oversight by Plaintiffs creates a substantive lack of compliance with § 3813 as there is no reference in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charge to Plaintiffsâ intention to retire at any time in the foreseeable future after March 2004, particularly in June 2004, nor to Plaintiffsâ intent to retire in 2006, because of a continuation of Defendantâs harassment manifested in Plaintiffsâ 2004 teaching reassignments or the expected continuation of such assignments through 2006. Thus, Defendant had no timely notice of Plaintiffsâ belated hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims, nor their intention to file such claims in the future, in violation of the fundamental purpose of § 3813 as declared by New York courts. See Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 at *2 (purpose of § 3813 is to provide district with prompt notice of nature, time, place and manner of claim). However, â[t]he prerequisites of [§ 3813] apply only to those actions which seek the enforcement of private rights, as opposed to those actions that seek the vindication of a public interest.â Newman, 2008 WL 974699 , at *3 (citing cases) (bracketed material added); Biggers v. Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free Sch. Dist., 127 F.Supp.2d 452, 455 (S.D.N.Y.2001) (citing cases); Mills v. Monroe County, 59 N.Y.2d 307 , 464 N.Y.S.2d 709 , 451 N.E.2d 456, 458 (1983), (â[A]ctions that are brought to protect an important right, which seek relief for a similarly situated class of the public, and whose resolution would directly affect the rights of that class or groupâ are exempt from § 3813âs notice requirements) (citing Union Free Sch. Dist. No. 6 of Towns of Islip & Smithtown v. New York State Human Rights Appeal Bd., 35 N.Y.2d 371 , 362 N.Y.S.2d 139 , 320 N.E.2d 859, 862-63 (1974)), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1018 , 104 S.Ct. 551 , 78 L.Ed.2d 725 (1983). An action might be brought in the public interest if, for example, it is âa class action brought to protect civil rights.â Drees v. County of Suffolk, 2007 WL 1875623 , at *14 (E.D.N.Y. June 27, 2007); see Atkins v. County of Orange, 251 F.Supp.2d 1225, 1235 (S.D.N.Y.2003) (citing Finley v. Giacobbe, 827 F.Supp. 215, 220 (S.D.N.Y.1993) (although plaintiffs claim may positively affect the public interest, it was not âmore imbued with the âpublic interestâ than those of other state human rights plaintiffsâ)); Turner v. County of Suffolk, 955 F.Supp. 175, 177 (E.D.N.Y.1997) (âInasmuch as the disposition of plaintiffs claim was not intended to nor could it directly affect or vindicate the rights of others, [plaintiffs] action is properly characterized as one seeking the enforcement of private rightsâ). As â[a]ll actions brought to enforce civil rights can be said to be in the public interest,â Biggers, 127 F.Supp.2d at 455 (quoting Mills, 464 N.Y.S.2d 709 , 451 N.E.2d at 458 ), âthe public interest exception [to § 3813âs notice of claim requirement] does not apply when plaintiffs are seeking money damages for the sole purpose of redressing plaintiffsâ individual injuries.â Drees, 2007 WL 1875623 , at *14 (quoting Atkins, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1235 ) (bracketed material added). In the instant ease, § 3813âs notice of claim requirement applies to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, as Plaintiffs seek enforcement of their private interests and recovery of money damages. Newman, 2008 WL 974699 , at *3; Drees, 2007 WL 1875623 , at *14; Atkins, 251 F.Supp.2d at 1235 ; Biggers, 127 F.Supp.2d at 455 . Relevantly, Plaintiffs seek lost and future *575 wages, bonuses, employment benefits, âdamages to their reputations,â and consequential damages âresulting from Defendantâs discrimination.â Complaint at ¶ 25. Although Plaintiffs also seek a judgment against Defendant âdeclaring the acts and practices of Defendant to be in violation of the United States and the State of New Yorkâ and request a permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease and desist from engaging in the illegal and unlawful acts and practices described herein,â ie., Complaint ¶ 25 (b, and (c, these legal and equitable requests do not qualify the relief sought by Plaintiffs as in the public interest and while Plaintiffsâ action, if successful on the merits, may positively affect the public interest (as do all actions to enforce civil rights and anti-discrimination laws), see Biggers, 127 F.Supp.2d at 455 , because Plaintiffs seek primarily money damages, Plaintiffsâ action is not more âimbuedâ with the public interest than with a vindication of Plaintiffsâ private interests. Finley, 827 F.Supp. at 220 . Consequently, the court finds Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims are subject to § 3813âs notice of claim requirement. See Mills, 464 N.Y.S.2d 709 , 451 N.E.2d at 458 (plaintiffs allegations regarding defendantâs § 1983 violations referred âonly to conduct that [related] to [plaintiff],â and therefore not in the public interest); compare Union Free Sch. Dist. No. 6 of Towns of Islip & Smithtown, 362 N.Y.S.2d 139 , 320 N.E.2d at 863 (claim asserted by N.Y. Division of Human Rights âon behalf of a class of women plaintiffs alleging that the school boardâs policy with respect to maternity leave was discriminatoryâ held to be in the public interest). Thus, § 3813âs requirement of a timely notice to the District, and pleading compliance with this requirement, cannot be avoided by Plaintiffsâ instant lawsuit. Accordingly, assuming Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims are deemed to have accrued either on March 7, 2004, when Defendant notified Plaintiffs of their new teaching assignments, or on March 15 and 23, 2004, when Plaintiffs were respectively subjected to the second classroom observations within a one-year period, because Plaintiffsâ notices of claim to the District, in the form of a copies of the Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, were sent to the District on June 30, 2004, more than three months after accrual of Plaintiffsâ claims based upon any of Defendantâs actions directed to Plaintiffs in March 2004, Plaintiffs undisputedly failed to allege they had filed a timely notice of claim with Defendant in accordance with § 3813. Even if Plaintiffsâ claims, particularly Plaintiffsâ asserted constructive discharges, are deemed to have accrued in 2006 when Plaintiffs retired, it is too late for Plaintiffs to satisfy § 3813âs timely notice of claim requirements as to such claims. As Plaintiffs rely exclusively on the mailing of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges as compliance with the notice of claim requirements of § 3813, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 2-3, Plaintiffs do not contend their NYHRL claims accrued in September 2004, when they commenced to teach fifth grade classes at the Fletcher School in accordance with Defendantâs reassignments of Plaintiffs nor in 2006, when Plaintiffs decided to retire. In the instant case, although receipt of an EEOC charge by a school district may constitute a notice of claim, Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 , *3; Kushner, 285 F.Supp.2d at 316 , for Plaintiffsâ notices of claim to have been timely under § 3813, as Plaintiffsâ state law cause of action based on their teaching assignment changes accrued on March 7, 2004, the date Plaintiffs received notice of their reassignments from DâAngelo, to comply with § 3813âs three-month notice of claim filing requirement, the District should have received a copy of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges as notice of Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims for § 3813âs purposes, from the EEOC not *576 later than June 7, 2004, or three months from the date on which Plaintiffsâ causes of action accrued. Here, it is undisputed the EEOC forwarded notice of Plaintiffsâ claim to the District on June 30, 2004, well beyond the permissible three-month period, an element of Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claim, required by § 3813. Regardless of whether Plaintiffsâ NYHRL cause of action accrued on March 7, 2004, the date on which Plaintiffs were notified of their reassignments, or March 15, 2004, or March 23, 2004, the dates on which Field and Mancuso were respectively observed in their classrooms by DâAngelo, the date the EEOC forwarded copies of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges to the District, June 30, 2004, is nevertheless beyond the three-month commencing on such dates and which expired on June 7, June 15, or June 23, 2004, respectively. Thus, Plaintiffs did not, and could not, allege in the Complaint timely compliance with § 3813 as to their NYHRL claims. Despite failing to timely file notices of claim, in compliance with New York law, Plaintiffs could have nevertheless timely applied to a court within one-year for leave to file late notices of claim required by § 3813, but Plaintiffs did not, and the time period, one-year from the date of claim accrual, within which they may have done so, under New York law, has since expired. See Amorosi, 849 N.Y.S.2d 485 , 880 N.E.2d at 8 (â[A]ccording to [§ 3813[2-b]], a late notice of claim [in an action against a school district] must be filed no later than one year after a cause of action accrues.â) (bracketed material and underlining added). Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 , at *5 (court has discretion to extend notice of claim period upon application within one-year from accrual of plaintiffs claim); Ximines v. George Wingate High School, 2006 WL 2086483 , at *10 (E.D.N.Y. July 25, 2006) (quoting § 3813[2-a]) (â[u]pon application, the court, in its discretion, may extend the time to serve a notice of claimâ). However, the court cannot grant a plaintiffs request for leave to file late notice of claim made beyond âthe expiration of the statute of limitations for the claim.â 20 , 21 , 22 Newman, 2008 WL 974699 , at *6. Thus, in this case, even if Plaintiffs failed to comply with § 3813âs three-month notice of claim filing requirement, applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, any such request for extension could not exceed 365 days from the accrual of Plaintiffsâ state claims based on either the dates of the Plaintiffsâ March 2004 teaching reassignments or the classroom observations, and such period, ie., as of March 2005, within which to grant an extension of time, has now passed. Even if, as Plaintiffs now assert, Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 7, their 2006 retirements constitute an actionable adverse em *577 ployment action under the NYHRL based on a constructive discharge, as Plaintiffs now posit, and even further assuming Defendant created a hostile work environment after March 2004 by continuing to require Plaintiffs to teach fifth grade causing Plaintiffsâ to retire in June 2006 as Plaintiffs now maintain, the time within which Plaintiffs were required to comply with § 3813 or to have applied for leave to file a late notice of claim pursuant to § 3813 in order to preserve their NYHRL claims based on their 2006 retirements also expired in June 2007, shortly after Plaintiffs filed this action on April 12, 2007. Plaintiffs nevertheless attempt to avoid dismissal of their NYHRL claims based on their failure to comply with the applicable New Yorkâs one-year statute of limitations. In particular, in their letter to the court, Plaintiffsâ Letter, Plaintiffs contend that even if the one-year statute of limitations is applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, the running of this one-year period was tolled while their EEOC Administrative Charges were pending before the EEOC. However, Plaintiffs failed to cite any authority for this proposition, and Defendant does not address it. As noted, Facts, supra, at 550, Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges were filed June 21, 2004 and the EEOC issued Plaintiffsâ Right to Sue Letters on January 11, 2007, officially concluding EEOCâs consideration of Plaintiffsâ charges. Plaintiffsâ Exh. A. Thus, if this period, June 21, 2004 through January 11, 2007, were tolled as Plaintiffs contend, Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims in this case, filed April 12, 2007, based on Defendantâs March 2004 actions, would be timely as only eight months had elapsed; if not tolled, then Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims were filed beyond the applicable one-year period as provided under N.Y. Educ. Law § 3813 [2-b], assuming accrual of Plaintiffsâ claims occurred in March 2004. 23 Notwithstanding, even if timely for New Yorkâs one-year statute of limitations purposes, Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, including any claim for constructive discharge accruing only in 2006, are nevertheless barred under applicable state law as a result of Plaintiffsâ failure to comply with § 3813âs notice of claim prerequisites to suit as to such claims. âThe Second Circuit has not considered whether the filing of an administrative charge with the EEOC or the DHR [N.Y. Division of Human Rights] tolls the statute of limitations as to all claims arising out of such charge until the relevant termination proceedings are pending,â and âdistrict courts within the Second Circuit are split on the question.â 24 Gardner v. St. Bonaventure Univ., 171 F.Supp.2d 118, 128-29 (W.D.N.Y.2001) (intentional infliction of emotional distress limitations period not tolled pending EEOCâs determination of employment discrimination claim) (bracketed material and underlining added); Hargett v. Metro. Transit Auth., 552 F.Supp.2d 393, 400 (S.D.N.Y.2008) (no definitive ruling by Second Circuit regarding whether filing administrative charges with EEOC tolls statute of limitations âas to all claims arising out of the same set of factsâ) (underlining added). However, â[t]he weight of authority ... is against tolling state claims during the pendency of the *578 EEOC claim.â Gardner, 171 F.Supp.2d at 129-30 (underlining added). See Collier v. Boymelgreen Developers, 2008 WL 835706 , at *9 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 28, 2008) (same); Hargett, 552 F.Supp.2d at 400 (same). 25 Nevertheless, assuming, arguendo, that Plaintiffsâ filing, on June 21, 2004, of administrative charges with the EEOC and the subsequent investigation of Plaintiffsâ charges and conciliation efforts by the EEOC tolled the running of the one-year limitations period for commencing an action under the NYHRL, see EEOC v. New York City Health and Hosps. Corp., 1994 WL 68420 , at *5 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 2, 1994) (EEOC conciliation efforts toll limitations period), Plaintiffsâ one-year period within which to apply for leave to file late notice of claim under § 3813 has nevertheless expired. Discussion, supra, at 573-74. If the one-year statute of limitations was first tolled, as Plaintiffs contend, on June 21, 2004 the date which Plaintiffs filed charges with the EEOC, through January 14, 2007, the date Plaintiffs are presumed to have received their Right to Sue Letters from the EEOC, Sherlock v. Montefiore Med. Ctr., 84 F.3d 522, 525 (2d Cir.1996) (âA presumption exists that an EEOC notice is received three days after its mailing.â); Allen v. Darbey, 2006 WL 2504446 , at * 5 (W-D.N.Y. Aug. 28, 2006) (recognizing presumption); Slootskin v. John Brown Engâg and Constr. Inc., 2006 WL 516748 , at *3 (D.Conn. Mar. 1, 2006) (Second Circuit held ADEA statute of limitations runs from âplaintiffs receipt of a âright-to-sueâ letterâ) (citing Vernon v. Cassadaga Valley Cent. Sch. Dist., 49 F.3d 886 , 887 (2d Cir. 1995)), and the latest date which the New York one-year limitations could, under these facts, resume running, then the one-year statute of limitations ran for 106 days during 2004, before it was tolled (24 days in March 2004, 30 days in April 2004, 31 days in May 2004 and 21 days in June 2004), and for an additional three months, or 88 days in 2007, after Plaintiffs received their Right-to-Sue Letters when the tolling period ended (assuming Plaintiffs received these letters on or about January 14, 2007) resulting in 194 days having run before the instant action was filed. From April 12, 2007, the date this action was commenced, Plaintiffs therefore had 171 days, or until September 30, 2007, to apply for leave to file late notice of claim but, based on the record, did not, and the court is therefore prohibited, under New York substantive law, from now granting such extension. Newman, 2008 WL 974699 , at *6-7 (statutory limitation on courtâs power to extend time to serve late notice of claim âdivests the court of authority to grant an extension beyond the expiration of the statute of limitations for the claim.â); Don-Ion, 2007 WL 108470 at *5 (expiration of one-year NYHRL statute of limitations divests court of authority to grant relief from § 3813âs three-month notice of claim requirements); Ximines, 2006 WL 2086483 , at *10 (plaintiffs motion to extend time in which to file late notice of claim denied because â[n]o application for an extension of time was made ... until the filing of response papers ... more than one year after events took place that gave rise to plaintiffs cause of actionâ). Plaintiffsâ claims for constructive discharges under the NYHRL, ostensibly accruing in 2006, are similarly time-barred based on the same analysis, i.e., these claims accrued not later than June 2006 and more than one-year has passed since that date disallowing any potential relief from § 3813âs notice of claim prerequisites to suit applicable to the accrual of Plain *579 tiffsâ constructive discharge claims under the NYHRL at the present time. The same analysis applies to Plaintiffsâ hostile work environment claims as such claims could not have accrued later than June 30, 2006, when Plaintiffs retired, and the one-year period of limitations for such claims under the NYHRL also expired, even if tolled during the pendency of the EEOCâs investigation, on September 30, 2007. Thus, even under Plaintiffsâ tolling theory, unsupported by caselaw, 26 Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims are therefore barred based on Plaintiffsâ failure to comply with § 3813âs notice of claim filing prerequisites as well as being time-barred under § 3813[2-b], and Defendantâs motion based on Rule 12(c) directed to such claims should be GRANTED on these grounds. 2. Notice to Governing Body Defendant alternatively argues that, in addition to being untimely under § 3813, Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims fail to allege compliance with § 3813âs delivery and presentment requirements, and are thus subject to Defendantâs request for judgment pursuant to Rule 12(c). Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 2. Specifically, Defendant argues that Plaintiffs did not allege they presented their notice of claim, i.e., a copy of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, to the Districtâs âgoverning bodyâ as required by Section 3813, Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 2, or allege, as also required by § 3813, that Plaintiffs served the required written notice of their claims within three-months of accrual of their claims in March 2004, and that Defendants refused to pay the claim within thirty days after the timely notice of claim was filed. Id. Plaintiffs do not respond to these contentions. Here, Plaintiffs failed to allege, in their Complaint, or argue in opposition to Defendantâs motion, that their notices of claim to the District were submitted to the âappropriate governing body,â within three months of the accrual of Plaintiffsâ claims, as required by § 3813. See Grennan, 2007 WL 952067 *17 (citing cases). Inasmuch as Plaintiffs have failed to plead or submit evidence demonstrating compliance with § 3813, or even the existence of a material issue of fact regarding such question, and because it is undisputed that Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges were forwarded to the District more than 90 days after Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims accrued in March 2004, regardless of which official received Plaintiffsâ charges on behalf of the District, the court need not consider Defendantâs additional contention that the allegations contained in Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges were insufficiently descriptive of Defendantâs discriminatory conduct to constitute a notice of claim in compliance with § 3813. Defendantâs Reply Memorandum at 3. Additionally, even if Plaintiffs actually suffered from a hostile work environment after March 2004, spe *580 cifically, by being required to teach fifth grade, instead of first and second grade, classes and were subjected to unwarranted administrative scrutiny, leading to their constructive discharges as an actionable adverse employment actions when Plaintiffs announced and subsequently took their retirements in 2006, such claims are now time-barred as beyond the applicable one-year period of limitations, applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims, irrespective of Plaintiffsâ failure to comply with § 3813 as to the asserted hostile work environment (even assuming such hostile working conditions were actually suffered by Plaintiffs) and their consequent constructive discharges. Section 3813 requires Plaintiffs to have delivered the notice of claim to the âappropriate governing body.â N.Y. Educ. Law § 3813 (McKinney 2001). New York courts are divided regarding how this requirement may be met. Compare, Ricketson v. Cambridge Cent. Sch. Dist., 203 A.D.2d 761 , 611 N.Y.S.2d 49, 49 (3rd Depât. 1994) (neither the school principal nor the school districtâs superintendent âconstitute the Districtâs governing bodyâ under § 3813); Spoleta Const. and Dev. Corp. v. Bd. of Educ. of the Byron-Bergen Cent. Sch. Dist., 221 A.D.2d 927 , 634 N.Y.S.2d 300, 300-01 (4th Depât.1995) (âplaintiffs delivery of the letter to the Superintendent of Schools does not constitute service upon the Boardâ); In re Jackson v. Board of Educ., Colton-Pierrepont Cent. Sch. Dist. 194 A.D.2d 901 , 598 N.Y.S.2d 842, 842 (3rd Depât.1993) (plaintiff did not comply with Section 3813âs notice of claim requirement by serving the superintendent, who is ânot a member of the governing body or the clerk of the governing body ofâ the school district) with Mennella v. Uniondale Union Free Sch. Dist., 287 A.D.2d 636 , 732 N.Y.S.2d 40 (2nd Depât.2001) (âA petition to the Commissioner of Education can constitute the functional equivalent of a notice of claimâ); see also Bucalo v. E. Hampton Union Free Sch. Disk, 351 F.Supp.2d 33 (E.D.N.Y.2005) (letter notifying superintendent of plaintiffs discrimination claims found to constitute valid notice of claim). However, as this court has found a timely notice of charge from the EEOC to a school districtâs personnel director will constitute substantial compliance with § 3813âs requirement, see Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 *3 (citing New York and federal caselaw), Defendantâs contention is without merit. Nevertheless, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 576-78, Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims are time-barred as a matter of state law, and for failure to comply with § 3813, Discussion, supra, at 570-76, and the court therefore need not further address Defendantâs contention that Plaintiffs failed to properly serve the District with a timely notice of claims. Accordingly, if the Chief District Judge retains, as recommended, supplemental jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ pendent NYHRL state claims, Defendantâs motion pursuant to Rule 12(c) as directed to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims should be GRANTED. 27 *581 3. Plaintiffsâ Failure to Allege Adverse Employment Actions As discussed, Discussion, supra, at 569, the standards for a viable ADEA claim are the same for an age discrimination claim under the NYHRL. See Wanamaker, 108 F.3d at 467 . Further, as also discussed, Discussion, supra, at 556-59, based on applicable federal law, Plaintiffs have failed to allege or establish evidence of adverse employment action as a required element for their ADEA claims. Accordingly, Plaintiffs have also therefore failed to allege any adverse employment actions as a required element of their NYHRL claims. Therefore, Defendantâs motion directed to such claims should be GRANTED. CONCLUSION Based on the foregoing, Defendantâs motion (Doc. No. 19) directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims and NYHRL claims should be GRANTED. Alternatively, Defendantâs motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims should be GRANTED, and Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims should be DISMISSED. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636 (b)(1), it is hereby ORDERED that this Report and Recommendation be filed with the Clerk of the Court. ANY OBJECTIONS to this Report and Recommendation must be filed with the Clerk of the Court within ten (10) days of receipt of this Report and Recommendation in accordance with the above statute, Rules 72(b), 6(a) and 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rule 72.3. Failure to file objections within the specified time or to request an extension of such time waives the right to appeal the District Courtâs Ordered. Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140 , 106 S.Ct. 466 , 88 L.Ed.2d 435 (1985); Small v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 892 F.2d 15 (2d Cir.1989); Wesolek v. Canadair Limited, 838 F.2d 55 (2d Cir.1988). Let the Clerk send a copy of this Report and Recommendation to the attorneys for the Plaintiffs and the Defendant. SO ORDERED. DATED: November 26, 2008 Buffalo, New York 1 . Although Plaintiffs alleged, Complaint ¶ 18b, that they were also subjected to individual classroom observations on April 8, 2003 (Mancuso) and April 10, 2003 (Field), only the observations occurring in March 2004 are alleged as constituting discriminatory employment conduct directed toward Plaintiffs by Defendant as one of the grounds *548 for Plaintiffs' ADEA and NYHRL claims. Complaint ¶ 18a. 2 . Taken from the pleadings and papers filed in the instant action. 3 . Nothing in the record specifies when Defendant's employees accepting the Early Retirement Incentive were required to retire in accordance with the Early Retirement Incentive offer; however, based on the respective submissions of the parties, the court presumes such date was the end of the 2003-2004 school year, i.e., at the end of June 2004. 4 . According to Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, Plaintiffs were notified of their fifth grade teaching assignments on March 5, 2004. Colby Decl. Exh. A. The discrepancy is not material to the analysis of the issues presented in Defendant's motion. 5 . The text of Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges is identical. Colby Decl. Exh. A (passim ). 6 . The record does not indicate the manner of delivery of the Plaintiffsâ Administrative Charges, but, presumably, the documents were mailed to Defendant. 7 . Although the EEOC stated such deadline was March 26, 2004, Plaintiffs' Exh. B at 1, the parties indicate the deadline was April 2, 2004. Complaint ¶ 11; Colby Declaration ¶ 5. 8 . Although at the outset of Defendantâs motion, Defendant moves pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(c) ("Rule 12(c)â) against Plaintiffs' NYHRL claims, Colby Affirmation ¶ 3; Defendantâs Memorandum at 4, because the court finds that granting summary judgment to Defendant, as Defendant also requests, on Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims may deprive this court of subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (c)(3), a point not raised by the parties, the court first addresses Defendantâs motion seeking summary judgment directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims. 9 . A right-to-sue letter from the EEOC is not a prerequisite to suit provided a plaintiff's administrative charges have been pending before the EEOC for at least sixty days. See McPherson v. New York City Dep't of Educ., 457 F.3d 211, 215 (2d Cir.2006) (citing Âżfo lowecki v. Fed. Express Corp., 440 F.3d 558 , 562-63 (2d Cir.2006)). However, where the right-to-sue letter is issued, a plaintiff is required to file suit within ninety-days after receipt. Holowecki, 440 F.3d at 563. 10 . This question was not considered by the EEOC in its Determination Letters. 11 . Although Defendant conceded Plaintiffs' allegations â[f]or purposes ofâ Defendant's motion, Colby Declaration ¶ 5, as noted, Discussion, supra, at 551 n. 8, Plaintiffs do not rely on this concession in opposing Defendantâs motion. 12 . Plaintiffsâ Second Cause of Action, based on the NYHRL is not affected by Defendantâs argument on this issue. â[T]he NYSHRL ... do[es] not require exhaustion of administrative remediesâ before bringing a claim under the NYHRL. Reeve v. SEI/Aaronâs, Inc., 2008 WL 905908 , at *3 (W.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2008) (citing Hernandez v. New York City Law Depât, *562 1997 WL 27047 , at *10 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 23, 1997)); Lumhoo v. Home Depot USA, Inc., 229 F.Supp.2d 121 , 136 n. 13 (E.D.N.Y.2002). 13 . Rather, the EEOCâs determination letters, issued on September 26, 2006, state that "Charging Part[ies] elected not to retire.â Plaintiffsâ Exhibit B ("EEOC Determination Lettersâ ¶ 4) (underlining added). This statement would constitute an incomplete finding had the EEOC then known of Plaintiffsâ intent to retire, given to Defendant in February 2006, or their subsequent retirements in June 2006. It is unreasonable to assume that Thompson would not have taken further investigatory action had Plaintiffs' letter been received as Plaintiffs assert in opposition to Defendantâs motion. That Plaintiffs thought it necessary to attempt to inform the EEOC in 2007 that they considered their 2006 retirements to constitute constructive discharges, tends to undermine Plaintiffsâ contention that such constructive discharges were reasonably related or within the reasonable scope of Plaintiffsâ 2004 EEOC Administrative Charges filed. 14 . It is incorrect to contend that because Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims are subject to summary judgment based on Plaintiffsâ failure to allege in their EEOC Administrative Charges constructive discharges that, according to Plaintiffs, took place over two years later, Plaintiffs have been the victims of a legal "Catch-22.â Plaintiffsâ Memorandum at 2. Nothing precluded Plaintiffs from amending their EEOC Administrative Charges, indicating in the charges that Defendant's violations were expected to continue, filing new charges alleging a hostile work environment and constructive discharge in 2006, amending the Complaint to specify these claims, or instituting a subsequent action alleging an on-going hostile work environment and related forced retirements in 2006 Plaintiffs now attempt to assert in this action. Any supposed "Catch-22â is therefore the result of Plaintiffsâ own inaction. 15 . Given that Plaintiffs' ADEA claims are subject to summary judgment, it is unnecessary to address whether Plaintiffsâ failure to allege an exhaustion of administrative remedies also requires relief under Rule 12(c) as Defendant contends. See Defendantâs Memorandum at 5-9 (arguing that Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge claims not exhausted and requesting relief pursuant to Rule 12(c) or Fed.R.Civ.P. 56). The court notes that Plaintiffs did allege an exhaustion of administrative remedies regarding their ADEA claims and received, eventually, right-to-sue letters. Complaint ¶ 8, Plaintiffsâ Exh. A. 16 . Although Plaintiffs' NYHRL claims are subject to dismissal based on the same analysis applicable to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, because the parties submitted extensive briefing on whether Plaintiffs' claims are subject to dismissal on these substantive grounds, and in the event the Chief District Judge denies Defendant's motion directed to Plaintiffsâ ADEA claims, the court elects to consider the issue as presented by the parties. 17 . References to N.Y. Educ. Law are to McKinney's 2001, unless indicated otherwise. 18 . Plaintiffs argue that Defendant's failure to rely on the state statute of limitations defense was not asserted in Defendantâs motion, however, the court exercises its discretion and addresses the issue as Plaintiffs have had an opportunity to rebut the argument. See Plaintiffsâ Letter. 19 . Cf. In re Hurley v. Avon Cent. School Dist., 187 A.D.2d 982 , 591 N.Y.S.2d 643, 644 (4th Depât. 1992) (plaintiff has burden of establishing that school district had actual knowledge of the claim "within a reasonable time.ââ); McCann v. State, 181 Misc.2d 284 , 694 N.Y.S.2d 328 , 333 (N.Y.Ct.Cl.1999) (citing In re Hurley, supra, to support finding â[t]he burden of establishing that Education Law § 3813(1) has been complied with is upon the injured party.â). 20 ."Tort claims against a school district are excepted from the § 3813âs notice requirements, and, instead, must comply with the notice requirements found in the New York General Municipal Law § 50 (see Education Law § 3813(2).)â Newman, 2008 WL 974699 , at *6 ("Pursuant to § 50-i(1)(c), an action against a school district sounding in tort must be commenced within one year and ninety days after the happening of the event upon which the claim is based, not within the one year limit mandated by § 3813(1)â) (internal quotation omitted). See also Amorosi, 849 N.Y.S.2d 485 , 880 N.E.2d at 8 . 21 . â[T]he filing of the notice of claim [does] not toll the statute of limitations____â Koehnlein v. Jackson, 12 A.D.3d 1185 , 784 N.Y.S.2d 431, 431 (4th Depât.2004) (citing Matter of Bamer v. Jeffersonville-Youngsville Cent. Sch. Dist., 117 A.D.2d 162 , 502 N.Y.S.2d 285 , 288 n. 1 (3rd Depât. 1986); and Matter of Miller v. McGough, 97 A.D.2d 416 , 467 N.Y.S.2d 250, 250 (2d Depât. 1983)). 22 . The limitations period for commencing age discrimination action under the NYHRL against a school district is one year from the date the cause of action accrued. Amorosi, 849 N.Y.S.2d 485 , 880 N.E.2d at 8 . 23 . If Plaintiffsâ constructive discharge claims based on Plaintiffsâ 2006 retirements were considered to have been pleaded in the Complaint, and were also found to be viable under the NYHRL, such claims are not time-barred for NYHRL purposes as they were filed within one-year of Plaintiffsâ retirements in June 2006, i.e., on April 12, 2007. 24 . Charges filed with the EEOC are deemed "constructively to be cross-filed with the NYDHR....â Sundaram v. Brookhaven Nat. Laboratories, 424 F.Supp.2d 545, 565 (E.D.N.Y.2006). 25 . As the three-month notice of claim period had expired prior to filing Plaintiffsâ EEOC Administrative Charges, there was no period under § 3813 that could then be tolled by the EEOC filing. 26 . In Amorosi , the court declined to find any basis not to apply the requirements of N.Y. Educ. Law § 3813 [2-b] to a NYHRL claim against a school district, 849 N.Y.S.2d 485 , 880 N.E.2d at 9-10 , and as there is no requirement that a complainant exhaust administrative remedies before filing an action under N.Y. Exec. Law 296, Reeve, 2008 WL 905908 , at *3, it is not apparent why New York law recognizes the tolling principle which Plaintiffs posit based on filing administrative charges with the EEOC. Even compliance with § 3813âs notice of claim requirements does not toll the applicable state statute of limitations. See Matter of Barrier, 502 N.Y.S.2d at 288 n. 1 (citing Matter of Miller, 467 N.Y.S.2d at 250 ). Declining to find that filing an administrative charge with the EEOC tolls the one-year period of limitations applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims is also "consistent with the general principle that statute of limitations schemes are exclusively the prerogative of the legislative and, absent a clear legislative declaration that any tolling is permissible, the courts should be reluctant to imply one.â Gardner, 171 F.Supp.2d at 131 (citing cases). 27 . Had Plaintiffs cross-moved for leave to file an amended complaint based on a late notice of claim, their request would have had to be denied as futile under Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(a), because a late notice of claim may not be filed beyond the one-year statute of limitations applicable to Plaintiffsâ NYHRL claims based on the allegations submitted to the EEOC which, in this instance, expired in March 2005, well-prior to the commencement of this action in April 2007 and the filing of Defendantâs mo tion on October 1, 2007. Donlon, 2007 WL 108470 , at *5 (restriction that extension to serve late notice of claim not be extended beyond the applicable limitations period "divests the court of authority to grant an extension after the statute of limitations for the claim expires.â); Ximines, 2006 WL 2086483 , at *10. Also, as discussed, Discussion, supra, at 576, any claims Plaintiffs may have accrued in 2006 arising from a constructive discharge, not pleaded in the Complaint, are similarly time-barred under New York law *581 and, as potential amended claims in this action, also became futile after June 2007. Case Information
- Court
- W.D.N.Y.
- Decision Date
- March 5, 2009
- Status
- Precedential