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...MARCH 2006, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.: In a plea agreement, music teacher Carol Flannigan, 51, began serving a five-year prison sentence (to be followed by 10 years of sex-offender probation) for lewd and lascivious molestation of a student that began when the boy was 11. The relationship lasted 19 months, say police...
...JANUARY 2006, SANTA ANA, CALIF.: English teacher Sarah Bench-Salorio, 29, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to 29 counts of lewd conduct (sex with three boys--two of her former students and one of their friends--ages...
...WORCESTER, MASS.: Amber Jennings, 32, pleaded guilty to disseminating harmful materials to a minor (e-mails and nude photos and videos of herself and the teen) and was sentenced to two years' probation. A charge of sex with a minor was dropped. Jennings was the boy's freshman-English teacher; the two later became involved in a six-month sexual relationship that ended when...
...Launched as an evaluation tool in 1998, the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is already being used to grade schools and distribute funds. Now critics like the state's biggest teachers union argue the test is about to be used for another task for which it was never designed. Can test scores accurately rank the physical education teacher whose encouragement prompts a student to improve math scores or the art teacher whose class is the only reason a 17-year-old stays in school, those same critics ask. How, in short, do you financially apportion the contributions of everyone...
...want to encourage teachers, to encourage new teachers to come here and work, then you are going have to realize that we are different from business people," said Karen Futornick, a teacher from Sarasota County...