Sunday, May 30, 2010

Private schools failing to run fingerprint checks


New York Post

Fewer than 1 percent of the state's 1,900 private schools run fingerprint checks on job applicants to screen for sex offenses and other criminal behavior, The Post has learned.

Statewide, only 17 private schools have submitted fingerprints since a 2007 law granted them the right, says the state Education Department.

Unlike public schools, private schools are not required by law to do extensive background checks. The 2007 law stopped short of making it mandatory. [...]


2 comments :

  1. Troppenstein's monsterMay 30, 2010 at 7:38 PM

    But these are both associates of Leib Tropper who have no problem with him

    http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176715

    A massive Knesset conference on Thursday that intended to provide a forum for reaching common ground on religious identity ended up highlighting differences between the secular and religious Zionists on one side and the haredim on the other.

    At breakout sessions, the trend of religious Zionist rabbis and secular MKs ganging up on haredim continued. The problem was exacerbated by the last-minute cancellation of two leading haredi rabbis, Mordechai Neugroschel and the haredi chairman of the International Rabbinical Committee for Conversion Matters, Rabbi Nahum Eisenstein.

    The rabbis told the organizers that they did not want to be on panels with Reform and Conservative representatives. Eisenstein said he would not be able to attend the panel due to the presence of “unworthy people.”

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  2. An expanded version of this article was posted in vosizneias. Only one yeshiva in all of New York State bothered to fingerprint its employees.

    This is shocking. A simple method exists to help screen out molesters. The cost is only $10 per staff member. And yet most yeshivas are being negligent about protecting their students from molesting. This is just awful.

    http://www.vosizneias.com/56552/2010/05/30/new-york-less-that-1-of-private-schools-run-fingerprint-checks/

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