During the past five years, nearly half of Oregon teachers disciplined for sexual misconduct with a child left their school districts with confidential agreements.
The Oregon response is sadly similar to that of the Texas Youth Commission and Catholic Archdiocese across the country. They all hid sex offenders so as to not cause inconvenience […]
Friday the Sarasota Herald-Tribune published a searchable database from a nationwide list of 24,500 teachers who have been punished for a wide array of offenses. The SHT requested the information from the Florida Department of Education and then waited for years to gain access to the list.
The list was gathered and maintained by the National […]
A study by Australian National University, examined the literacy and numeracy test results of more than 90,000 students with more than 10,000 teachers in Years 3, 5 and 7 between 2001 and 2004, tracking the same group as it advanced through the school system.
It found that classes taught by the best teachers scored twice as […]
—————————– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ————————–
From: Friends and Alumni of Virginia Tech
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Event Date: 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 5
Where: Blacksburg Recreation Center, 725 Patrick Henry Dr., Blacksburg, VA.
Subject: Safety Options for Education
“Duck […]
Virginia Tech college student, Cho Seung-Hui had been judged mentally ill and a danger to himself and others yet his parents didn’t know. Virginia Tech was prevented from telling them by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
FERPA was one of a series of “privacy” laws passed following Supreme Court Justice William […]
Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, had an apparently troubled past that was kept secret in the interest of his privacy. Whether or not disclosure of his troubled past might have prevented some or all of the 32 deaths is an unknowable question. The answer would seem to be that it might have. […]
The Longview School District received a helpful hand from the US Department of Education in a teacher sexual misconduct case.
The DOE ruled that Longview could claim a privacy right under FERPA (The Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act). The case revolves around the allegations that JV volleyball coach, Eric Talley, groped a female student […]