"Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $540,000 a year in salaries for six rubber-room teachers who have been legally cleared to return to class -- but will never go back because the schools chancellor believes they're too dangerous.
All six public-school teachers have been benched for years over alleged sexual misconduct.
Overall, the city Department of Education has put some 550 fully paid teachers in limbo, crammed into 'rubber rooms' as they wait for their misconduct cases to be adjudicated, costing taxpayers $30 million a year.
But these six have either completed their punishments or had their cases dismissed -- sometimes on technicalities -- and remain on the payroll. The DOE says such tenured teachers are almost impossible to fire."
All six public-school teachers have been benched for years over alleged sexual misconduct.
Overall, the city Department of Education has put some 550 fully paid teachers in limbo, crammed into 'rubber rooms' as they wait for their misconduct cases to be adjudicated, costing taxpayers $30 million a year.
But these six have either completed their punishments or had their cases dismissed -- sometimes on technicalities -- and remain on the payroll. The DOE says such tenured teachers are almost impossible to fire."