A 42-year-old female special-ed teacher in Queens yesterday pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court to the third-degree rape of a 15-year-old boy. As punishment, in addition to surrendering her teaching license and registering as a sex offender, the teacher, Christine Williams, is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in jail and ten years probation in July. Williams had sex with the boy (who was not her student) at least twice last year in her Jamaica, Queens, home. more ›

The 7-year-old boy who was dragged out of class in handcuffs earlier this month wants an apology. Joseph Anderson, a special-needs student at P.S. 153 in Maspeth, appeared at a press conference yesterday with his mother and the family attorney, and demonstrated for the cameras how he was carted out of school to a waiting ambulance. He had thrown a tantrum because his Easter egg coloring didn't come out the way he wanted, and the boy explains to CBS 2, "I wanted to color my Easter egg again so my mom could know how nice was it. But Ms. Kate wouldn’t let me so I jumped on the table." Then Joseph became more upset after, he says, the teacher threatened him with a needle! more ›

The NYPD has a zero-tolerance policy toward students, and hasn't hesitated to cart kids out of school in handcuffs for such offenses as doodling on their desks. But one Queens mother thinks the NYPD went too far when they dragged her 7-year-old son out of his special-ed class in handcuffs. The Daily News reports that Joseph Anderson, a first-grader at P.S. 153 in Maspeth, had been wetting himself throughout the morning on April 13th, and then became upset when he was dyeing Easter eggs and "the color on the egg he was painting didn't look the way he wanted." Yes, it's a sad story. more ›

A Queens mother is still outraged over an incident that took place at P.S. 123 over a year ago. "The visions in my head drive me crazy," says Marissa Chunisingh, whose daughter Kristen was tied to a chair with a sweater when she was a 5-year-old student at the school. Kristen has speech problems, and wasn't able to tell her mother what was going on at the school—Chunisingh only found out about the incident after getting a strange phone call from a school official asking her for a leash. more ›

A five-year-old special education student in Homecrest, Brooklyn was left alone on a school bus for an hour yesterday morning while the bus driver and his wife enjoyed breakfast in a nearby diner. Iman Mirza, who is developmentally disabled, is recovering from a fever after the incident, according to her father—the temperature was about 20 degrees in Brooklyn when she was left behind. more ›

A Queens mother is filing a $6 million suit after a school aide restrained her five-year-old daughter, a special-ed kindergartner, by binding her to a cafeteria bench with her own sweater. Marissa Chunisingh discovered the treatment that her daughter Christyn was receiving in school when the girl began tying up one of her dolls with a scarf because she was “being bad.” Someone also reported to Chunisingh that Christyn, who is in special-ed for a speech disability, was “strapped down after she was found locked in a classroom by herself - screaming at the top of her lungs.” No one from the school or the city has responded to Chunisingh’s allegations, which are currently under investigation. more ›