It would take months for the agency that licenses Oregon teachers to discipline a Salem-area teacher for inappropriately touching at least eight girls. To get Kenneth John Cushing, then 44, away from Claggett Creek Middle School students immediately, administrators cut him a deal: If Cushing resigned, they would conceal his alleged conduct -- clutching students' waists, touching their buttocks and massaging their shoulders -- from the public. Cushing signed the pact -- obtained by The Oregonian through public records requests -- with Salem-Keizer Public Schools in 2004, and officials promised not to reveal the teacher's behavior if potential employers called...