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Teacher Jeremy Forrest appears in court on child abduction charges
MATHS teacher Jeremy Forrest appeared before a court in handcuffs yesterday charged with abducting a 15-year-old female. Inverurie-born Forrest, 30, made his appearance before magistrates in Eastbourne, Sussex, just hours after his extradition from France. A
Read More »Schools adopt volunteer screening process
The Board of Education Tuesday voted unanimously to adopt a controversial screening process for classroom and school-activity volunteers, as recommended by schools chief Patricia Charles. Parents or anyone from the community wishing to volunteer for
Read More »South Africa: Dance Teacher Convicted of Raping Seven Girls
The Khayelitsha dance teacher accused of raping seven schoolgirls from Khayelitsha over a two-year period was found guilty in the Khayelitsha Regional Court yesterday. Magistrate Nonkosi Saba found Mlulami Gagu, 43, guilty of raping seven
Read More »Phoenix Talks About Background Checks For School Workers
We are learning more about what goes into background checks for temporary employees working inside the Huntsville City School District. This follows a Taking Action report you first saw on WHNT News 19 earlier
Read More »Teacher breaks student’s arm
A teacher broke the arm of a student at a private school here on Tuesday.
Read More »School Officials: Background Checks Catch Ineligible Potential Employees
Like all school district employees, Andrew Stansberry went through an application process and background check before he was hired to be Principal at Washoe County's Marvin Moss Elementary School. Two weeks ago he was convicted
Read More »Delhi teacher rapes 14-year-old girl for 4 years
A teacher has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl for four years while another minor girls was raped allegedly by a teenager in separate incidents in the capital, police said on
Read More »Offer to screen for school paedophiles
Paedophiles are good liars. And extremely manipulative. So how do organisations like Big Buddy, which matches men with fatherless boys, make sure the mentors they use will do no harm? Big Buddy chief executive Richard Aston
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