Monday, March 26, 2007

Teachers who leaded guilty or no contest, not yet sentenced.

Michael Kelly Reiner, a Long Island teacher.
Daniel Platt, an Alabama middle school teacher.
Barry Ostrander, a Minnesota teacher
Christopher Ernest, a Wisconsin Middle School teacher
Gerald Thomas, San Antonio, Texas
Joseph Nurek, a Chicago, Illinois charter school principal.
David Berlund, a Falmouth, Massachusetts physics teacher
William T. Garner, Professor Emeritus School of Education, San Francisco

[TT - bumping this to remain on top for this date.]

Thursday, March 22, 2007

East LA

Early story on an East L.A. teacher had, apparently, a picture of Al Gore. (Click to enlarge)



Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Clinton Knoll (continued)
His claim that he was the victim of a student assailant led to a lockdown of the school campus for several house and prompted police to focus their attention on Ryan DiStefano, then a student at the school, whom Knoll had implicated as his attacker.

Knoll was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie with a wound that police later said was less than 2 centimeters deep. He was arrested two weeks later, on Nov. 17, 2003, when, after being confronted with a number of inconsistencies in statements he made to authorities, he confessed.

In August 2005, Knoll pleaded guilty to one count of falsely reporting an incident, admitting that he staged the attack and lied to police about the incident. He was sentenced by Hyde Park Justice David Steinberg to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay to the state police and Hyde Park police $7,224 for their costs in investigating the false claims.

Although Knoll resigned from his post with the school district shortly after his arrest, he remains a state-certified biology and general science teacher and school administrator.
No reason was given for the extraordinary delay in revoking his certification.
Source: Kingston Daily Freedom link

TT entry.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

William French Anderson - Cont.

Additional information not on main page.

From Xinhau news: They met after the girl's family moved to Los Angeles from China and her mother began working for Anderson at his lab. Anderson had been a coach and mentor to the girl since she was 9, when her mother, Anderson's second-in-command at his USC laboratory, asked him to help the girl.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor handed down the sentence, rejecting the 70-year-old researcher's arguments that his imprisonment would deprive humanity of the benefits of his medical efforts. He and his wife, an accomplished surgeon, said they chose not to have children to devote themselves to medicine.

After he was charged in Los Angeles, a Maryland man claimed that Anderson had molested him 20 years earlier. Anderson was charged then with abusing the boy, but Maryland prosecutors dropped the case.

From Los Angeles Times: Anderson's sex abuse charges followed other setbacks. By 2003, his USC lab had lost most of its funding. Gene therapy had not lived up to the expectations that followed Anderson's early success.

Friday, February 2, 2007

Michael Bohn

Screenshot of faculty page for Michael Bohn, the Rochester, New York teacher who was arrested for bank robbery.