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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Progress for the public schools in New York

If from a rather low base...

DEAL TO BOOT PERV TEACHERS

Gov. Paterson yesterday announced agreement on a new law to automatically boot tenured teachers from their jobs if they're convicted of sexual assaults or other felonies that put them on the state's sex-offender registry...

The new law is aimed at eliminating situations such as one recent New York City case in which officials waged a costly, six-month battle to fire a teacher who had sodomized a 13-year-old student...

Well, one supposes this is a good thing.

But as to the fact that schools are run so that a political "deal" with the teachers union must be run through the state legislature to be able to get rid of teachers who sodomize students...