"In June 2011, Osman Abugana, now 63, was accused of "inappropriately changing the scores from failing to passing" on the state Regents physics exam for five students at Medgar Evers College Preparatory, a public middle-high school in Brooklyn. "The deceit and dishonesty which the department finds to underlie this conduct are, in its view, moral failings which cannot be remediated," according to a 2013 disciplinary opinion by a state-appointed arbitrator obtained by The Post."
"The department said Abugana's testimony at his administrative trial was "riddled with lies and misstatements" and made him "unfit" to teach. But Abugana, then 51, fought his firing with the help of New York State United Teachers' union, which provides defense to NYC teachers in these hearings. Instead of firing him, the arbitrator suspended him for one semester and ordered him to take a course on proper testing and grading procedures."
In June 2011 a New York City physics teacher, Osman Abugana, was accused of changing five students' Regents physics scores from failing to passing. A 2013 state-appointed arbitrator characterized the conduct as rooted in deceit and moral failings. The Department of Education sought termination after an Office of Special Investigation probe and called his testimony "riddled with lies and misstatements." The teacher fought the firing with union representation, received a one-semester suspension and a mandated testing-and-grading course, spent years in a paid DOE holding room, and later returned to teach, earning a reported $140,000 annually.
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