N.Y. Legislature Triples Budget of Teacher Sex Investigative Unit
The Legislature has restored funding to bolster an understaffed investigative unit in the state Education Department to cut into a backlog of hundreds of cases involving teachers and administrators accused of having sex with students.
The unit will be able to hire eight investigators and attorneys to dig into more than 800 pending cases of "moral misconduct" against teachers, administrators and applicants for certification. Most cases involve sex with students.
The state budget adopted Wednesday restores the $500,000 that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer sought to cut from the unit's funding and added another $600,000 to hire more investigators and attorneys to reduce the backlog, said Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen...
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