KAZEE WILL NOT BE CHARGED BECAUSE STUDENT WAS 16 AT THE TIME.
July 20, 2007 - Two teachers have been arrested as a result of a successful lawsuit against the Fayette public schools. A third teacher, Richard M. Kazee, who was accused but not arrested teaches in Las Vegas, despite a conviction on a misdemeanor sex solicitation charge.
In 1991, Kazee was convicted of soliciting an undercover police officer for sex and suspended from teaching, according to his Fayette County personnel file.Some interesting statistics about Clark County, Nevada.
He didn’t lose his job after the conviction because a judge and a three-member tribunal decided the school district had not acted quickly enough in coming to a decision on his case.
But Kazee was suspended a second time in November 1991 after drinking beer on campus during a first aid class for coaches. Kazee fabricated a story about switching the beer with non-alcoholic beer to try to cover up the incident, according to school personnel files.
[Fred Perdomo, principal of Carson City High School and member of the Nevada Commission on Professional Standards in Education] said the sheer size of Clark County’s district could be a factor in why Kazee found a job there. The Clark County School District is the fifth largest in the country, [Byron Green, director of recruitment for the district] said. It opens an average of 12 new schools a year, hires 2,500 to 3,000 teachers a year and deals with tens of thousands of applicants.About three-fourths of Nevada’s teachers come from out of state, Perdomo said, adding that teachers leaving one state for another after problems in a school are fairly common.
Green said the number of applicants has no effect on the screening process, but [Fred Perdomo, principal of Carson City High School and member of the Nevada Commission on Professional Standards in Education] was not so sure. “Las Vegas on any given day is 500 teachers short of their needs,” Perdomo said. “They have so many openings and so much need, maybe it slipped through the cracks.”
See - The lawsuit against Fayette County, Kentucky TT - LINK
See - The teamsters union are battling the teachers union for control of the right to represent teachers in Clark County. See TT - LINK
August 29 - Police in Lexington, Kentucky, will not be charging Kazee because Maler was 16 at the time of the "interaction."
