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An Atlanta teacher is out of a job and behind bars, accused of repeatedly having sex with a female student, authorities said Wednesday. According to WSBTV, 35-year-old Jovan Burton, a former band director at the Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy and B.E.S.T. Academy in northwest Atlanta, was arrested Monday and charged with sexual […]

According to WISC-TV., a Wisconsin teacher has been placed on administrative leave after allegedly tackling an 11-year-old student at Whitehorse Middle School and ripping out three of her braids. The incident was caught on school cameras and is currently under both police and district investigation. The girl’s mother Mikiea Price filed a police report with the Madison […]

When 5-year-old Hailey Turner’s parents received a call that their daughter may be suffering an allergic reaction they rushed to her school. Mom, Ciara Morgan, told The Daily Beast that she was shocked to see the girl’s face was bruised and didn’t appear scratched. When the kindergartner told them what happened to her face they were left […]

Cardi B’s former AP Government Teacher, Joan Hill, has come to the rapper’s defense after fans and haters suggested she should stick with music instead of weighing in on politics. Joan Hill, who says she taught Cardi at Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and the Arts in the Bronx, posted a message to her Facebook […]

=auto” width=”640″ height=”395″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen=”” mozallowfullscreen=”” allowfullscreen=””] A Texas teacher has been removed from the classroom after he was accused of watching porn while in the classroom. Kira Lackey-Thompson, a mother of one of his students, is angry after learning about the accusations. “That is a private thing, and I understand that people have their […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teachers in Los Angeles, whose 640,000 students make it the nation’s second-largest school district, are ready to strike Thursday over a contract dispute that follows teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor after a critical defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court. United Teachers Los Angeles said its 35,000 members […]

MONTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — School officials say a substitute teacher who told first-grade students in New Jersey that Santa Claus isn’t real will not be returning to the school. NJ.com reports Montville Schools Superintendent Rene Rovtar confirmed Tuesday the teacher will no longer work in the district after the incident Thursday at Cedar Hill School. Rovtar declined […]

The video of her racism went viral.

When the custodian at Dallas Independent School District’s Frank Guzick Elementary School had an emergency, principal Adreana Davis stepped up to handle the responsibilities. Davis told WFAA, “I just put those gloves on and got to work.” As reported by WFAA, when teachers and students saw the principal pushing the custodian’s cart down the halls, they were not surprised. […]

It’s almost Halloween and every year there are people who clearly missed the “blackface is never acceptable,” memo. A photo of first-grade teacher in Iowa wearing blackface as a part of a Halloween costume have been circulating the web; and folks are not happy about it. According to KTNV the woman was trying to portray […]

A Louisiana math teacher has been disciplined after she posted a racially charged post on Facebook shortly after Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad. Valerie Scogin has been teaching at Slidell high school since 2008. “They don’t have to live in that country. They could go back,” Scogin posted. “But it was their own people selling them […]

  A North Carolina teacher is upset after she was suspended because of her role as a part time pole dance instructor. Kandice Mason is a sixth grade teacher who loves her job, but she also happens to love pole dancing. Mason, who has three degrees, was suspend when a video that she posted to […]