WLBT: Teacher resigns after fist fight in front of elementary students Cleveland Plain Dealer: Students' suit claims teacher tenure deprives them of quality education Times-Union: More legal woes ahead: Occupy Albany protester continues disobedience with new arrest Standard-Examiner: Stereotypes govern cases of female teachers having sex with male students Calgary Herald: Arrests call attention to dynamics of teacher-student sexual relationships Education Week: Calif. lawsuit attacks teacher employment rules Oakland Tribune: Lawsuit attacks teacher tenure rules in low-income San Jose school district Sex abuse, female perps: Kimberly Lake Smith, health & physical education teacher at Galeton High School, Galeton, Pennsylvania, "charged by Galeton Police with allegedly having sexual contact with two Galeton High School male students" Kimberly Lake Smith, Galeton, Pennsylvania (arrested May 2012) Jade Alexandria Matejka, former substitute chemistry teacher at Hitchcock High School, Hitchcock, Texas, improper relationship with high school senior Jade Alexandria Matejka, Hitchcock, Texas (arrested May 2012) Sex abuse, male perps: K.C. Craven, fourth-grade teacher at Morgen Owings Elementary School, Chelan, Washington, "accused of making sexual advances toward a fourth-grade boy and other students will get one year’s pay in a settlement Monday that ends his employment" http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2012/may/16/chelan-settles-with-teacher-accused-of-making/ http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120517/NEWS03/705179870 Other sex stuff: Joshua Rich, art teacher at Miguel Juarez Middle School, Waukegan, Illinois, child porn plea agreement http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/12576490-418/teacher-takes-plea-deal-in-child-porn-case.html http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120517/news/705179746/ http://libertyville.suntimes.com/ne...acher-takes-plea-deal-in-child-porn-case.html Guy Cruz, teacher & coach at Central High School, Pueblo, Colorado, "former Colorado Springs probation officer, had been under investigation since October by police there for allegedly having sexual relationship with an adult female client" http://www.chieftain.com/central-co...cle_38a59314-9fb1-11e1-83d0-001a4bcf887a.html Non-sex stuff: Laura P. Saylor aka Laura Barnhart, special education teacher at Grant Middle School, Marion, Ohio, "sentenced to three years probation on drug charges" http://www.marionstar.com/article/2...arion-teacher-gets-probation-drug-trafficking http://www.wmfd.com/newsboard/single.asp?Story=50501 http://www.marionstar.com/article/2...eacher-gets-probation-drug-trafficking-charge http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.co...r-from-Galion-gets-probation?odyssey=nav|head Updates: Update: Gregory Francis Austin Guilty: Gregory Francis Austin, Fraser, Michigan (arrested Mar 2012) [child pornography, catfishing, drugs] Update: Melissa Anne Dalton Melissa Anne Dalton, Oro Valley, Arizona (arrested Apr 2012) Update: James Christopher Hooker http://www.kvor.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29849453 http://www.ecollegetimes.com/studen...s-court-with-18-year-old-girlfriend-1.2740412 Update: Stephen James Wolford http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/63874/ Tags: