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Board Reviews Background Check Procedure after the Arrest of a Teacher
After the arrest of one of their elementary school teachers who has been accused of several child pornography crimes, the Superintendent of Newton, MA schools has announced that the city has formed a task
Read More »Portsmouth: Sex with teens: Does punishment fit the crime?
She said it was consensual. She was 16. He was 37 – a popular football coach, more than twice her age. Statutory rape? Not in Virginia. And not in most states. All states have laws that deal with
Read More »CA Parents Question Why Background Checks Did Not Work
I don’t think I have ever heard of a school administrator terminating an entire staff but that is exactly what happened this week at Miramonte School in Los Angeles. Two teachers were arrested for
Read More »LC-M High School teacher arrested on charges of sexual assault, improper relationship with student
Deputies arrested a former Little-Cypress Maurceville High School teacher on charges of Improper Relationship Between an Educator and Student and Sexual Assault of a Child. Bryan Lee Hyde, 32, resigned from his job as an
Read More »Medicine Hat teacher charged with sexual assault of 14-year-old girl
Police charged Bradley James Mastel, 32, of Medicine Hat with sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, sexual touching and unlawful confinement. Police in Medicine Hat have laid sex charges against a local teacher in connection
Read More »Teacher Background Check – How to Protects Our Kids When There Are So Many Loopholes in the System
When it comes to our kids, no potential danger should be considered small. Far too many tragic and shocking stories of crimes committed by teachers show that an in-depth and complete teachers background check
Read More »Substitute teacher arrested for allegedly twisting a male teenage student’s nipples
A Bronx substitute teacher has been arrested after allegedly twisting a student’s nipples in school, prosecutors said. Chukwuma Duru, 27, a substitute at Bronx Career and College Prep High School in Morrisania, was charged with
Read More »Criminal Background Checks and Pennsylvania Teachers
A new background check law in Pennsylvania could leave some teachers unemployed. A new Pennsylvania law requiring all school workers to disclose their criminal history next month could see some employees who have been convicted
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