Sexual misconduct cases in city schools are on the rise - NY Daily News 6/6/12 8:47 AM Home Autos Real Estate Jobs Classifieds Apps Place an Ad Buy Pictures Contests Reader Offers Login Register SITE BLOGS WEB Search powered by Education Enter a search term... SEARCH News Sports Gossip Entertainment Events New York Opinion Life & Style Photos BronxServicesBrooklyn Queens Uptown Education Weather Traffic Latino Photos Columnists Sexual misconduct cases in city schools are on the rise Parents advocate calls 37% increase in reported cases an 'alarming' increase Comments (9) BY BEN CHAPMAN, GLENN BLAIN AND RACHEL MONAHAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 4:00 AM Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 4:00 AM Recommend 29 people recommend this. Be the first of your friends. Twitter 1 StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg Reddit Email Print MOST POPULAR MOST READ MOST SHARED 1 200 tenants evacuated because of missing fire escapes 2 Tanorexic Mom Patrica Krentcil was once a babe! 3 Ellis Island joins endangered list 4 School sex scandals on rise 5 Mom of Rikers ‘demon’ says the ex- girlfriend he shot is to blame for the tragedy 6 Suits by diabetics sock NYPD 7 Paid Sick Days Act makes business sense 8 Worker trying to jump start van killed when driver hits the gas 9 Skiff capsizes in Hudson, seven boaters pulled from chilly waters 10 Lucky Diamond the dog dies of cancer An upsurge in sexual misconduct allegations is rocking city schools RELATED STORIES — with more than 150 complaints against staffers in April and May alone, official data show. The NYPD vs. minorities? No way The last two months continue the trend of more complaints than in 2011 — a 37% increase over last year’s numbers. NYPD sergeant is busted on assault rap “It’s alarming, it’s very alarming,” said Mona Davids, president of the CBS’ ‘NYC 22’ brings another New York City Parents Union. “We need to start addressing this. squad car full of new cops to We’re seeing the stories in the paper and parents are concerned.” the streets of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/sexual-misconduct-cases-city-schools-rise-article-1.1090602?localLinksEnabled=false Page 1 of 4 Sexual misconduct cases in city schools are on the rise - NY Daily News 6/6/12 8:47 AM In the last week alone, there were allegations against two women fights the good fight in New teachers, including Erin Sayar, an English teacher at James Madison York City's long war against guns High School, who faces statutory rape charges for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student half a dozen times last year. Activists to hold rally in the Bronx protesting “Some of the cases have been sort of sensational, so that’s gotten a ‘unfair’ arrests of minority students in NYC public lot of publicity,” said Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard schools Condon. “But that doesn’t explain all the other cases that are coming up.” Homicide drops off US list of top causes of death; Murder Overall, the special schools investigator opened 528 misconduct overtaken by respiratory illness cases in the first five months of this year — 28% more than last year — including 223 cases involving sexual misconduct. At the same time, Condon’s office has closed 334 cases — a 7% decline since last year. EDITORS' PICKS More school staffers have been arrested so far this year than in all of 2011, according to data from the NYPD, the special schools investigator and news reports. At least 23 Department of Education workers were PHOTOS: Lohan busted by cops so far this year. In 2011, there were at least 13 arrests. suffers wardrobe malfunction on set “I don’t know if in the past [sexual misconduct\] was being covered up or swept under the rugs,” said of Liz Taylor biopic Chancellor Dennis Walcott, speaking in Albany, where he was lobbying for a new law to give the chancellor The troubled starlet had instead of arbitrators the final say on firing teachers. trouble keeping her dress in place while shooting scenes from 'Liz & Dick' biopic “I think we are giving it much more attention, and one of the things the mayor and I are very clear about is Couple Googled how trying to make sure people understand the ramification of these cases.” to kill minutes before strangling United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew noted yesterday that his union “believes in zero girl tolerance” on sexual misconduct with children. James Ayers, 32, and Nicole Okrzesik, 23, are accused of plotting ways to “That’s why our contract already includes the toughest penalty in the state — automatic termination — for kill Juliana Mensch. any teacher found guilty of this offense,” he said in a statement. Jenny McCarthy: Jim Carrey turned Zakiyah Ansari, advocacy director for the Alliance for Quality Education, said proven abusers must be his back on my removed promptly from the classroom. “We have to make sure this is about keeping our children safe and autistic son nothing else,” she said. The former Playboy model says the funnyman didn't care much for her 10-year- [email protected] old son. PHOTOS: 'Tan Mom' POST A COMMENT » once SMOKING HOT! New Jersey's “Tan Mom” FROM NYDAILYNEWS.COM FROM AROUND THE WEB wasn’t always a burnt umber, her husband Four NYPD cops shot in Brooklyn Deadly Women: Deadly Catfight confirmed. 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