LEARNING PERV (School-staff sex busts surge)

PFMLIT General, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST, TEACHERS SCHOOL STAFF

Pervert public-school staffers were nabbed in record numbers last year, leading to 43 percent more recommendations from city investigators that employees be fired or disciplined.  A report issued yesterday by Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon said his probers substantiated more complaints of misconduct by public-school workers in 2005 than in any year since the office was created in 1992.

Complaints

2004: 1,522

2005: 1,850

Change: up 22%

Cases opened

2004: 479      

2005: 568

Change: up 19%

Cases substantiated

2004: 175

2005: 250

Change: up 43%

Sexual misconduct cases

2004: 195      

2005: 213      

Change: up  9%

Sex cases substantiated  

2004: 69       

2005: 92      

Change: up 33%

(New York)