Board members seek to ease firing teachers

The proposals by board members Tamar Galatzan and Nury Martinez – and backed by board President Monica Garcia – come in response to a series of sexual abuse allegations against 11 LAUSD employees, including Mark Berndt, a Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of molesting students in his classroom over a period of more than a decade. Another teacher at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima, Paul Chapel III, was arrested last fall and charged with 16 counts of sexual abuse of four children.

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