How CA Disciplines Teachers Accused of Sexual Harassment | KQED

"Storage yards, towing companies and car repair shops can auction vehicles when the owners don't pay and pick up their vehicles. The auctions are known as lien sales. The legislation would require the department to notify owners within 14 days of receiving the surplus, detailing the amount and how the owner can claim their money. It would also require the notice to be sent through certified mail with a return receipt."

"By January 2019, the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District had taken steps to fire him, suspending him without pay. An independent panel convened by the state to hear his case deemed him "unfit to teach." The panel's decision meant that the popular educator was officially out of the job where he had spent his entire teaching career."

"But the panel's review only addressed his employment at this one school district, and its finding was not shared publicly. Over the next three years, Agan was hired at a second school and then a third. A broad look at California's Commission on Teacher Credentialing by KQED and ProPublica shows a pattern of delays and inaction, combined with a lack of transparency, that has allowed educators to continue teaching after school districts reported them to the state for sexual harassment or other misconduct of a sexual nature."

"He touched some of them in public in ways that made them uncomfortable, they said, including hugging students and massaging their shoulders. Some considered him a mentor who inspired a love of math - and even a second father. But for years, students also whispered about Agan's behavior, according to interviews with 14 Rodriguez High graduates, most of whom he had taught."

Storage yards, towing companies, and car repair shops can auction vehicles through lien sales when owners do not pay and do not pick up vehicles. Proposed legislation would require the department to notify vehicle owners within 14 days after receiving surplus funds. The notice would include the amount of surplus and instructions for how the owner can claim the money. The notice would have to be sent through certified mail with a return receipt. Jason Agan, a prominent math teacher and student government leader, faced allegations from former students about inappropriate touching. The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District suspended him without pay and sought to fire him. A state panel found him unfit to teach, but the finding was not publicly shared, and he was later hired by other school districts.

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