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Bill on guv’s desk expands teacher background checks to fed database

Bill on guv’s desk expands teacher background checks to fed database

teacherverification January 9, 2013 0

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

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Suspended Rich East teacher had sex with former student, police report says

Suspended Rich East teacher had sex with former student, police report says

teacherverification January 8, 2013 0

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

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Bill on guv’s desk expands teacher background checks to fed database

Bill on guv’s desk expands teacher background checks to fed database

teacherverification January 7, 2013 0

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

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Parents want more answers on “temporary school employee” now charged with rape

Parents want more answers on “temporary school employee” now charged with rape

teacherverification January 3, 2013 0

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

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Teacher ‘grabbed child, five, by head and slammed it against desk’

Teacher ‘grabbed child, five, by head and slammed it against desk’

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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

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Teacher removed from classroom after being caught on camera screaming at student before ‘spitting in boy’s face’

Teacher removed from classroom after being caught on camera screaming at student before ‘spitting in boy’s face’

teacherverification January 2, 2013 0

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

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Scarborough music teacher arrested for alleged sexual assault

Scarborough music teacher arrested for alleged sexual assault

teacherverification January 2, 2013 0

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

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7,000 out of 17,000 Bauchi teachers passed screening exercise

7,000 out of 17,000 Bauchi teachers passed screening exercise

teacherverification December 31, 2012 0

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

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