Sunday, April 16, 2006

School Official Guilty in Sex Sting

I take it back -- this is even nuttier!  This scumbag has pled guilty, yet the DOE has been unable to fire him and he's still collecting his salary!  Hard to think of a better case study of how dysfunctional the system is...
A former assistant principal at a Manhattan high school has pleaded guilty to the possession of child pornography and to enticing a minor after he tried to arrange sexual encounters over the Internet with two undercover investigators posing as 13-year-old girls, federal authorities said on Monday...

Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the New York City Department of Education, said that after Mr. Rubinstein was arrested last month, he was demoted back to his teaching title and assigned to administrative duties.

She said that because Mr. Rubinstein was tenured, he was still collecting his salary of $79,357 a year but that the department was doing all it could to fire him.

"We're moving to terminate him as quickly as possible under the education law," she said. "He was already assigned away from students a month ago, so he's not at the school at all, and he isn't teaching anywhere right now."

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