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Investigations into the alleged relationship between a 30-year-old teacher and girls’ soccer coach and a 17-year-old student have led to teacher facing 15 felony counts of sexual acts with a student. He was arrested on Friday, October 17 and pled not guilty. The teacher in question began working at Downey High School last spring…

Lawyers representing dozens of children in multiple civil lawsuits who were abused by teachers at three Los Angeles Unified School District campuses reacted with “concern and puzzlement” over the appointment of Ramon Cortines as LAUSD’s “interim” Superintendent. Cortines is replacing John Deasy who resigned after less than three years on the job. The 82-year…

Charges of child molestation have been filed against a former elementary school teacher, Robert Noel Anderson. Anderson formerly taught fourth and sixth grades at Dehesa Elementary School. The man was arrested at his San Diego home, NBC 7 reports. Jan Caldwell, spokesperson for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said that the ex-teacher is…

In an ongoing child abuse investigation involving a teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District, a number of Suspected Child Abuse Reports (“SCAR”) have surfaced. These records are among many documents that LAUSD claims to have destroyed in 2008. The recent discovery has escalated the controversy over alleged retention of information throughout the…

On Monday, May 2nd, a special education teacher’s aide allegedly assaulted several staff members and students at Van Nuys Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley. It was reported that the female teacher’s aide, 56-year-old Linda Hovanec, began acting erratically and throwing chairs shortly after school convened one morning. Last week, Hovanec was arraigned…

Monday morning brought with it a bizarre set of events at one San Fernando Valley elementary school. Shortly after drop-off time at Van Nuys Elementary School yesterday morning, a female teacher’s aide allegedly began assaulting fellow staff members and several students. According to authorities, the teacher’s aide was acting erratically and began throwing chairs….

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has officially shut down a special panel appointed to investigate the Miramonte Elementary School scandal, which has caused considerable controversy in the past several years. The new move is raising more questions. According to officials, LAUSD had formed the commission in 2012 shortly after Miramonte Elementary School…

Officials from the Oxnard Police Department reported the arrest of an Oxnard teacher earlier this week under suspicion of misdemeanor child annoying. The teacher – 41-year-old Jorge Arellano – was a math instructor at Oxnard High School. He was taken into custody at his home on Wednesday for child annoyance of at least one…