For senators working to tighten laws on teacher sexual misconduct investigations, deja vu in 2019
It’s been 10 years since Oregon lawmakers Sara Gelser and Arnie Roblan sat on the House Education Committee and ushered through a bill requiring the state’s school districts to draft rules addressing sexual misconduct by teachers.
The legislation was a response to a 2008 Oregonian investigation that found officials all too often let problem teachers slide, allowing them to resign from their jobs and move to other districts as complaints went uninvestigated.
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