North Carolina consider background checks for all school employees

North Carolina School BoardLast month, they appear to have made progress as a measure to strengthen background checks of teachers and other school personnel moved out of a Senate committee. Currently, local school districts have background check policies, but they vary. The State Board of Education cannot now require applicants for teaching licenses to be checked for criminal history. To highlight North Carolina’s situation, USA Today reported on a teacher who was hired by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system after his license was revoked in Georgia. The teacher had been investigated in Georgia for physical altercations with students and for sending improper text messages that were sexual in nature to a student. With this new measure (Senate Bill 867), criminal background checks would be required of all applicants for teaching licenses, applicants for other school jobs from custodian to principal, and of teachers seeking to have their licenses renewed. Teachers will be required to have their licenses renewed every five years. Concerns about how North Carolina screens potential teachers were raised years ago in a task force assembled by the Department of Public Instruction, which in 2010 produced a report with 15 recommendations to ensure candidates are fit to be in classrooms.]]>

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