The Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) states that if a teacher is convicted of a crime of child abuse or resigns after an allegation of child sexual abuse that teacher's license to teach shall be revoked.
The Maryland State Superintendent is well aware of this Regulation as she wrote about it in a May 23, 2017, memorandum.
On June 9, 2017, Former MCPS elementary school teacher John Vigna was convicted of four counts of sex abuse of a minor and five counts of third-degree sex offense.
As of today, John Vigna's license to teach in Maryland has still not been revoked.
That means that his name has not been reported to the National Database for the reporting and dissemination of the names of teachers who have had their licenses revoked. It also means that if John Vigna were to have his sentence reduced or completed he would be released from prison without notification to other jurisdictions that his Maryland teaching license should have been revoked.
What's going on Maryland State Department of Education Superintendent Karen Salmon?
How many other Maryland teachers have not had their licenses automatically revoked as required by COMAR? Where are those teachers today? Are they in classrooms or activities where they have direct contact with children?
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Perhaps she Super-intend(s)-ent to do so, but hasn't gotten around to it.
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