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Suspended Rich East teacher had sex with former student, police report says
A male math teacher at Rich East High School was like a “father figure” to a female student over the past year or so, according to what she told police. She went to him with
Read More »Bill on guv’s desk expands teacher background checks to fed database
Teachers, all public and private school employees and workers at licensed early education centers would be required to undergo background checks with fingerprints matched against a federal database, under legislation approved by lawmakers this
Read More »Parents want more answers on “temporary school employee” now charged with rape
Parents from a school in Northeast Baltimore are asking why a man who is now charged with raping a 15-year-old girl was he allowed to be alone with their children. That suspect -- Shawn Nowlin
Read More »Teacher ‘grabbed child, five, by head and slammed it against desk’
A teacher has been stripped of her classroom duties after a protest by furious parents who discovered she had been accused of - but not prosecuted for - pushing a child's head into a
Read More »Teacher removed from classroom after being caught on camera screaming at student before ‘spitting in boy’s face’
Disruption: Math teacher David Pecoraro was being investigated for corporal punishment after he allegedly spit at a male student who returned the gesture at the New York school
Read More »Scarborough music teacher arrested for alleged sexual assault
A long-time Toronto music teacher has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault investigation. Toronto police allege that between 2006 and 2010, 56-year-old Brian Bolliger assaulted a young girl in her home. They also
Read More »7,000 out of 17,000 Bauchi teachers passed screening exercise
Alhaji Abdullahi Dabo, the Chairman of Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), said all teachers in the state must sit for the compulsory Proficiency Test to ascertain their capabilities. Dabo told newsmen in
Read More »Girl, school teacher sexually assaulted
A school teacher was sexually assaulted in Amroha and a girl was raped in Muzaffarnagar in separate incidents reported from different parts of Uttar Pradesh during the past 24 hours on Friday evening.
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