Spitzer blasted over planned cut in teacher-sex investigators Monday, February 4, 2008 The Associated Press
ALBANY — The chairman of the state Senate's Education Committee says the Spitzer administration has declared open season on children because it cut $500,000 in funding for investigators who handle teacher sex cases involving students. Stephen Saland, R-Poughkeepsie, said he will fight to restore the funding. State Education Commissioner Richard Mills says he agrees with Saland that the funding must be restored to attack a backlog of hundreds of allegations. Mills said the cut proposed in Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s budget may be a misunderstanding. Saland said that if that’s true, the bureaucrat responsible should be fired. Both men spoke during a budget hearing today. There was no immediate comment from the Spitzer administration.
Why does the state have to pay for these investigations? The unions are already doing their investigations. And the police are usually doing theirs. IF the state feels this needs yet another layer, than privatize it. There should be legal firms out there that can specialize in these matters. But take the tax burden off the the taxpayers. Propose that all teachers carry a personal liabilty insurance for issues such as these.
Doctors have to have malpractice insurance. I propose that teachers do the same. It could be implemented in their next contract talks.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nurses have to/should carry personal liability even if you are not guilty. We have the NYS heath dept and the feds that do their own investigations on top of what the facilities do, why?-taxpayers demand the oversight. Not unions, and even if there are unions they would/should be the ones 'covering' their employees, but they dont care about the wrong doing of the employee they are there for the protection of, not judgement of guilt/innocence. Unions work for car assemblers/masons/plumbers etc....why? because no one really cares if you beat the crap out of copper piping, bust up some bricks or dent the car door......unions do not work in the the service sector of health/education or anything that has to do with people 'taking care' of people......it cost alot of $$ to untangle a bunch of people wrestling for their 'rights'......
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CAPITOL Assembly eyes penalty for teacher crime The Associated Press
The Assembly’s Democratic majority plans to introduce a bill similar to a Senate measure that would immediately revoke the certification of a teacher or administrator convicted of felonies, including sexual misconduct and embezzlement. Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Westchester County Democrat, says she plans to sponsor the bill in her Democrat-led chamber. Paulin said she supports the bill because it will protect children and fix a flawed system. “This bill will obviate the inefficiency inherent in the current process and protect school children by providing that upon conviction of, or pleading guilty to, a felony sex offense, a school employee’s certification or license will be automatically and immediately revoked,” Paulin said. Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen Saland, a Poughkeepsie Republican, says the current hearing process can cost taxpayers $150,000 per case, even after an educator is convicted of a crime. Saland says the measure is also backed by state Education Commissioner Richard Mills. “The Regents and the commissioner support the goals of this bill and are working with both houses of the Legislature to ensure that the enacted version addresses the complexities in administering this matter,” said Mills’ spokesman, Tom Dunn. Both chambers must pass the same bill for it to become law. State records reviewed by The Associated Press in 2005 and 2007 included hundreds of cases in which state investigators and attorneys convened hearings for educators who already were convicted or pleaded to crimes. Several hearings were held in prisons.
Convicted of being a sex offender the teachers can force the school districts to pay $150,000 per hearing to see if they can keep their teaching certificates and we wonder why our school taxes keep going up to support the lucrative contracts that the teachers have forced down the tax payers throat. In the private sector if you're a corrections officer and get convicted of a felony you lose your job immediately and may lose your pension benefits as well why should the teachers be treated any different.
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