States Target Sexual Abuse By Educators
It's the type of publicity people never want to see about their schools. But on a single day this month, parents and educators in five different states woke up to the following headlines:
Those accounts of separate incidents came from the Associated Press on April 12. On any day of the year, though, it's long been easy to find similar reports of sexual misconduct by school employees. In 1998, a three-part
special report showed that such cases conformed to recognizable patterns and were happening in all sorts of schools in...
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