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  • Buffalo Teachers Paid Not To Teach

    09/21/2009 8:12:54 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies · 1,872+ views
    2 On Your Side ^ | 9/15/2009
    over the last six years, Buffalo taxpayers have paid millions of dollars to teachers not to teach. Twelve different teachers have collected $2.25 million in salary while under suspension and waiting for disciplinary hearings during that time. And that amount doesn't include the costs for substitutes and the hearings themselves. The average wait for those hearings: three years. The school district doesn't release the names of the teachers, or what they've been charged with, but we've learned that right now there's a Physical Education teacher awaiting a hearing who was suspended four years ago this month and has been paid...