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Hidden Teacher Violations...In Illinois & Nationwide

By Alexander Russo — October 19, 2007 1 min read
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Speaking of teachers, there’s a new slew of stories from the folks at the Small Newspaper Group in Springfield Illinois that may blow your socks off: Illinois does poor job of dealing with teacher misconduct “Small Newspaper Group filed open records requests with 50 state education departments and built a national database of revocations and suspensions of teacher licenses during its “Hidden Violations” investigation. Among the 50 states, only Virginia revokes or suspends fewer teaching certificates than Illinois. Even if a hearing officer upholds the firing of teacher, they are free to seek employment in another school district.” These are the same folks who did an award-winning investigative report on teacher tenure two years ago.

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