An educator’s innocent mention of the subject matter of a question on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test to her colleague, who had already finished administering the test, was insufficient to justify the one-year suspension of the educator’s teaching certificate proposed.
One-year suspension too harsh a penalty for excited utterance regarding the CRCT. Read More
Petitioner did not report his disciplinary history as a California educator—including that he had been placed on administrative leave, that his employer had not renewed his contract, and that his teaching credential had been suspended following allegations of unprofessionalism—on his applications for a Georgia teaching certificate. Although the California disciplinary action and associated non-renewal of
Petitioner did not report his prior criminal convictions for forgery and identity theft on his online Resident Agent License application. Because the online application was completed by a third party at Petitioner’s direction, he did not realize that the application called for disclosure of convictions for which he received first offender treatment. Although Petitioner did
Application denied due to identity fraud and forgery convictions. Read More
Petitioner, a high school assistant principal, band director, and varsity wrestling coach, committed serious breaches of the Code of Ethics for Educators by making comments of a sexual nature to a student, sending the student inappropriate texts, and attempting to kiss her. Petitioner’s violations warranted the revocation of his teaching certificate.
Educator’s license revoked for attempting to have inappropriate relationship with student. Read More
The Department of Insurance sent several letters to Petitioner, a licensed Resident Agent, regarding allegations of certain business practices. After Petitioner failed to respond to any of the Department’s letters, it commenced suspension proceedings, whereupon Petitioner finally responded to the allegations. Although the Department took no action as to the original allegations, it imposed a
Licensee fined for repeated failure to respond to investigator inquiries. Read More
The Department of Community Health’s decision to fine a Private Home Care Provider was upheld where the facility’s owner failed on two occasions to provide the Department’s inspectors with access to the facility.
Facility fined for failure to provide access to inspectors. Read More
