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   Dozens of New York City educators have been accused of having   
   inappropriate, often sexual relationships and communications with   
   students, with some requesting nude snaps or plying them with money,   
   gifts or drugs, newly released records show.   
      
   Thirty-two more cases of educators and other school staffers engaged in   
   improper communications with kids were substantiated by the city’s   
   Special Commissioner of Investigation — boosting the total to at least   
   121 cases from 2018 to 2024, up from 89 tallied in May, according to   
   reports released to The Post.   
      
   Special Commissioner Anastasia Coleman has recommended 54 times from   
   2019 to 2023 that the city Department of Education prohibit all   
   employees from contacting students using personal cell phone numbers,   
   social media accounts, or other apps.   
      
   The DOE repeatedly rejected the recommendation but told The Post it may   
   finally tighten the rules.   
      
   Among allegations in the newly revealed cases:   
      
   Daniel Matuk allegedly began communicating with one of his 15-year-old   
   graphic design students at William Cullen Bryant HS in Queens in 2020,   
   exchanging over 700 messages between 2022 and 2023, investigators found.   
   Matuk texted about her “brown ass” and “little butt,” and called her   
   “b—h” and “whore.” Matuk would force the junior to hug him in his   
   empty   
   classroom. “I blocked Daniel Matuk’s number after graduation, but have   
   been living with trauma because of what had happened,” she told   
   investigators. SCI said he was “grooming” her. He collected $112,191 in   
   FY 2024.   
   Anthony Schiliro, a history teacher at the elite Eleanor Roosevelt HS in   
   Manhattan, sent “excessive” late-night texts to three female students,   
   investigators found. On one occasion, he joked about one student having   
   sex in front of the other two.   
   Jorge Luna, a social studies teacher at the Bronx Center for Science and   
   Mathematics, repeatedly texted and called a female student starting when   
   she was a freshman, and made inappropriate comments on her Instagram   
   even after being disciplined for his communications with her. In 2020,   
   Luna called the girl on FaceTime at midnight to wish her a happy   
   birthday, according to SCI. In 2022, he commented on her breasts, and   
   her “sexy” legs in a photo and wrote, “you should have opened” them,   
   the   
   girl told investigators. Luna collected $111,738 in 2023-24.   
   Steven Perez, a social studies teacher at Fort Hamilton HS in Brooklyn,   
   texted one of his students about his “girlfriend problems” and child   
   support, calling her “sweety” and “beautiful” from when she was 15,   
   investigators found. He’d give her cigarettes and oil for vaping, and   
   once tried to kiss her after driving her home. He was arrested in   
   December 2021, but the Brooklyn DA declined to prosecute.   
   Ellen Huynh, a teacher at the Civic Leadership Academy in Queens,   
   exchanged more than 9,000 texts with a male student between 2022 and   
   2023, including hundreds after 9 pm and on weekends. Witnesses,   
   including teachers, told investigators they saw the two hugging alone in   
   a classroom with the door shut, and in a park together. The student   
   refused to tell investigators about their conversations but said “there   
   was no sex.” She collected $80,701 in 2023-24.   
   Dulaina Almonte, 33, formerly a French teacher at Harry S. Truman High   
   School in The Bronx, allegedly sent a 17-year-old female student a   
   shocking 28,075 late-night texts and traded nearly 1,900 texts with a   
   male 12th-grader, according to a 2022 SCI report.   
   Scott Biski, 50, was accused of sexually abusing and grooming a female   
   student when he was a music teacher at Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences   
   High School. He sent the girl nearly 700 messages and told her to save   
   his number under a fake name “so as to not arouse suspicion,” according   
   to investigators.   
   Natalie Black, 30, a teacher at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy,   
   allegedly sent raunchy photos and videos of herself to a 17-year-old boy   
   and sent other kids videos of herself “deep throating” a liquor bottle   
   and dancing naked from the waist down.   
   Joseph Canzoneri, 57, exchanged flirty messages with female Townsend   
   Harris HS students and had sex with one who he allegedly brought to an   
   apartment and plied with wine and marijuana, according to SCI.   
   Danielle Medellin, then 24, exchanged nearly 5,500 “very flirtatious,”   
   “sexual tension”-filled texts with a boy in one of her 11th-grade math   
   classes at Manhattan’s Institute for Collaborative Education. She   
   resigned before she could be fired, as SCI recommended — and then   
   snagged a job as a New York Times data analyst, according to her   
   LinkedIn page.   
      
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   Those employees did not respond to inquiries from The Post. They have   
   all either resigned or been terminated, the DOE said.   
      
   Other educators denounced the alleged misconduct.   
      
   “There’s no reason to be calling or texting a student on a personal   
   device unless it’s something you don’t want said on a DOE computer or   
   email address,” an NYC high school teacher told The Post.   
      
   The teacher used her own phone to contact students during the COVID-19   
   pandemic and has done so occasionally to call students she believed were   
   in crisis.   
      
   But the practice has been “so grossly abused” that she supports the   
   SCI’s recommendation of a ban.   
      
   “Most schools have communications policies prohibiting private   
   communications at this point because they recognize the risks,” said Dr.   
   Elizabeth Jeglic, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor who   
   researches child sexual abuse and grooming. “I am not sure why this is   
   not being done in New York City.”   
      
   The DOE’s social media policy says employees “should not communicate   
   with students currently enrolled in DOE schools on personal social media   
   sites,” except in an emergency, and then a supervisor should be notified   
   as soon as possible.   
      
   The DOE has no prohibition on staffers using personal phones or email   
   addresses.   
      
   Officials have insisted that stricter rules are not needed because a   
   disciplinary process is in place to punish misconduct.   
      
   “Our educators are trusted individuals in the lives of our students, and   
   every teacher is always expected to behave appropriately,” said DOE   
   spokeswoman Jenna Lyle.   
      
   But officials told The Post they are reviewing the DOE’s social-media   
   rules, and “an updated policy is in development.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/01/25/us-news/more-than-100-nyc-educator   
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