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Subscribe to RSSThe Los Angeles Unified School District will report all teachers accused of misconduct to the California teacher credentialing commission, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
On Wednesday, School District Superintendent John Deasy ordered his staff to go through personnel files from the last four years and submit all discipline cases to the state, the Times reported.
The reports could involve hundreds of teachers and alleged misconduct cases could range from excessive absenteeism to sexual abuse, the paper reported.
The action comes a day after the Times reported that a substitute teacher was able to continue teaching for three years in a different school district after being investigated three times by the LAUSD for allegations of sexual misconduct with students.
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California school districts are required to report teachers who leave or change jobs as a result of allegations against them to the state teacher credentialing commission , the Times reported. The commission identifies problem teachers who apply for jobs in new districts.
The district waited nearly a year to notify the commission that it had moved to dismiss a former Miramonte Elementary School teacher charged with lewd conduct with students, NBC Los Angeles reported. After a second teacher at that school was arrested, the district replaced the entire staff.
Mark Berndt, the teacher at the center of the shocking Miramonte child sex-abuse scandal, was paid $40,000 by the Los Angeles Unified School District in June of 2011 as part of a settlement. KNBC-TV's Joel Grover reports.
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I personally think that all public school activities and classrooms should be videoed. That way it wouldn't require years of legal nonsense and millions of tax dollars, to consider the possibility of considering that something might be nothing or it may be something or maybe not. If we can video all people driving on public streets and prosecute from that, why can't we protect our children from bad teachers (and our teachers from bad children) by videoing all public school activities? Who exactly here is against the truth being documented and presented to the public?
Finally! I bet the Teachers Union fought this tooth and nail but couldn't win in the court of public opinion. I feel the unions are also responsible keeping these pedophile teachers in the class room. Lord knows they desperately need those forced dues to fill the coffers of the DNC and ultimately the boy king "Obama's" re-election campaign.
I wonder how many more victims are out there thanks to these pedophile union members?
@rrobeson - I totally agree 100%. After all, some day care centers now have video cameras in them, so why not schools?
How about screening and 'vetting' new hires for teaching positions and requiring existing teachers to be 'vetted’ every two years?
How about getting input from the parents of the kids in the classroom? Without fear of discrimination against them or their kids?
How about raising a generation of moral children ?
How about putting the parents into 'awareness' classes at the beginning of the school year?
How about taking the control of the public school system away from the powerful Teachers Unions?
How about eliminating the Department of Education? Make it simply a research body, not a governing body?
Isn't that what we pay those 535 bozos an bozettes in Congress to oversee?
How about burning all of the teachers at the stake. That is what it's coming to in this country. Notice the article says all allegations will be reported, even if they are false? My husband taught for 37 years and wishes he would have retired earlier. With what teachers have to put up with at their work place, in their classroom, and now this public condemnation, parents will have to start home schooling because no one in their right mind will go into teaching.
Be 75% of them..who would teach (try to teach) them then?
I think that movie (Escape from LA) was a real preview of the future of LA.
This is a double edged sword. YES abuse and misconduct need to be reported---but on the other side--if you get two or three students that don't LIKE a teacher (oh heaven for bid that teacher requires homework and passing test grades) then they can simply report "misconduct" (yes it has happened) and that teacher will be disciplined.
Personal story---an "ethnic" strudent wanted special test using "ethnic" language and extra time to take the test because he claimed that the test I'd used for years was "racialy slanted" (it was a chemistry test of all things!!!!) His mother went to the school board and I was ordered to let the mother rewrite 5 questions for the test. Naturally her son was the only one to gt those 5 questions correct (her grammar was atrocious!!) I left the district the following year to avoid "discipline" !!!!
I agree there are alot of things going on in the classrooms parents r not aware of.