Gross! A former assistant principal at I.S. 72 in Staten Island is accused of asking a 12-year-old student for massages - and then trying to buy her and her mother's silence with promises of private school payment! Lawrence Siegel was put in a district office job - not his usual gig at Rocco Laurie Intermediate School - while the Department of Education investigated him after a DOE parent support coordinator, per the Staten Island Advance,......

It is near impossible for the Department of Education to fire a teacher easily, but when it comes to a principal allegedly using chicken blood in a Santeria ritual to cleanse her high school, that's another story. The DOE says it will reassign and later fire Matritz Tamayo, the principal of the Unity Center for Urban Technologies, a Manhattan high school in Soho, for coercing staff members to participate and help pay for a number......

We love stories about public school teachers and sick days: There was the guy who wanted some time off to serve a jail sentence, the principal who was actually conducting an orchestra, and, our favorite, the teacher who took sick days when performing as a wrestler for the WWE. But we would never have dreamed that Lynne Stewart, the controversial lawyer who was convicted of aiding terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman while he was in......

Yikes! The Department of Education claims that a teacher charged the city for tutoring a child who was dead. According to the DOE, Cheryl Edwards said she spent 154.5 hours tutoring a sick 15-year-old student between January 23 and June 12 and received $5,864.82. The catch: In mid-January, the boy's mother took him to Vietnam (their native country), where he died on January 29 after 6 days in a hospital. The Department of Education's investigators......

Uh-oh - a teacher's attempt to make Newton's Third Law of Motion ("For every action force there is an equal, but opposite, reaction force.") more understandable may have backfired. The Daily News reports that 18 year teaching veteran Leonard Brown has been suspended from Benjamin Cardozo High School after a female student says he touched her breast. He asked the student - from Cardozo's elite Da Vinci Math Science Institute - to hold her hands......

While you cannot fault Sheepshead Bay High social studies teacher Thomas Everett for his honesty, we seriously wonder what he was thinking when he asked to take time off in order to serve time in jail. Everett's written request stated that he had to deal with "problems with the state of New Jersey judicial system," and naturalLy the Department of Ed's investigators investigated, finding out that Everett was a disbarred New Jersey lawyer, who had......

Are you a parent? Well then the News today really, really, really wants to get you worried about the idea that your children may be sleeping with their teachers! To stir your concerns they dig through the Department of Education's files with special schools investigator Richard Condon who says that his office busted "92 educators alone last year on sex charges - a 33% increase over 2004." While most of those cases involved inappropriate......