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These teachers stole, cheated and choked kids. Why did N.J. take so long to strip their teaching
These teachers stole, cheated and choked kids. Why did N.J. take so long to strip their teaching licenses?When colleagues accused a Point Pleasant teacher of inappropriately kissing two male co-workers during school and grabbing a teacher’s butt, school officials removed her from the classroom.
The school district eventually fired the teacher, Andrea Giuffrida.
Then it asked the state to consider stripping Giuffrida’s teaching credentials, which would keep her from teaching in a New Jersey public school ever again.
But while Giuffrida’s case slowly crawled through a Byzantine series of state hearings, motions and votes in Trenton, she landed a new job teaching in a school district an hour away.
Read more: https://www.nj.com/news/2019/08/these-teachers-stole-cheated-and-choked-kids-why-did-nj-take-so-long-to-strip-their-teaching-licenses.html