MIKE: TEACHER PACT, PERVERT ISSUE LINKED

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg said, city teachers will not get a new contract unless their union honchos make it easier for the city to fire convicted sex offenders.  We can't put sex offenders back in the classroom, he said, referring to cases in which arbitrators have ruled offenders cannot be fired.  Just two months ago an arbitrator said a chemistry teacher at Health Professions and Human Services High School in Manhattan could keep his job despite being caught sending sexually explicit e-mails to a female student.

(New York)