By Julia Marsh | New York Post
“The city’s bad-apple teachers have a surprising new ally these days — Manhattan judges.
The jurists are increasingly refusing to side with city education bigs to punish rogue educators fired for drug- and sex-related offenses, according to a review of recent cases by The Post.
At the heart of the troubling trend is a legal standard that requires the courts to defer to the city’s Department of Education when it terminates a teacher — unless the judge believes that the firing ‘shocks the conscience,’ experts said.”