New Jersey Senate to vote on teacher tenure changes

  Eyewitness NewsTRENTON -- New Jersey's state Senate is set to consider a measure that would make it harder for teachers to earn tenure protections - and easier to lose them.

A vote is expected Thursday on the bill, which would require good job evaluations twice in three years before teachers could have tenure.

The Assembly's education committee has advanced a similar but not identical bill. However, no vote has been scheduled for the entire Assembly.

The bill up before the Senate has the support of a wide range of education groups, including two teachers unions and an organization supporting school boards. Gov. Chris Christie says he is supportive of the ideas in the bill.

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New York City teacher facing child sex charges in NJ

  Eyewitness NewsPATERSON, N.J. (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey have charged a New York City schoolteacher with sexually abusing a child.

Thomas P. Gibbons, a teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, is accused of engaging in sexual conduct with an 11-year-old relative between January 2010 and January 2011.

Investigators said Gibbons, 59, would periodically visit relatives in Paterson, New Jersey, where the crimes allegedly occurred.

Police in Eastchester, New York arrested Gibbons at his home.

He was awaiting extradition to Passaic County where he will face child sex charges.

Anyone with additional information about this investigation can contact Chief Assistant Prosecutor Joseph A. Del Russo of the Passaic County Prosecutor's Special Victims Unit at 973-837-7626 or Passaic County Prosecutor's Detective James Stolz at 973-837-7736.

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Female Clifton teacher accused of sex with student

  Eyewitness NewsCLIFTON (WABC) -- A high school teacher in Clifton, New Jersey, is under arrest Wedneday, accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Gary Giardina said 26-year-old Kristin Leone, a history teacher at Clifton High School, was arrested Monday following an investigation.

Clifton police detectives conducted interviews, executed a search warrant and collected evidence relating to the allegations, which demonstrated that Leone engaged in sexual conduct with the boy on two separate occasions.

Leone is charged with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal sexual contact, luring and enticing a child and official misconduct.

She was released on $100,000 bail.

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NJ teacher accused of having sex with student

  Eyewitness NewsHACKENSACK -- Authorities are accusing a math teacher in Bergen County of having sex with a female student.

Joseph Greco is held on $100,000 bail, charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

County Prosecutor John Molinelli says the girl told investigators she and the 27-year-old had sex between 2010 and 2011 when she was a junior and senior at Park Ridge High School.

Greco has been suspended from the school. It's not clear whether he has an attorney.

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Wood-Ridge High School teacher remembered

Web produced by Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness NewsNEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Every teacher hopes to leave a lasting impression on their students. John Bischoff did just that.

Dozens of students from Wood-Ridge High School in New Jersey held a candle light vigil in his honor Monday night.

Boschoff died last week after a weight bar collapsed on his neck as he worked out.

Whenever John Bischoff had a free moment he'd take a couple of laps around the track.

Monday night, dozens of his students at Wood-Ridge High followed his spirit.

Bischoff was not just a high school history and economics teacher.

He was not just the former baseball coach.

By all accounts, he was a teacher extraordinaire, and for many a second father.

The 47-year-old teacher died this weekend from a freak accident.

Eyewitness News was told he was working out in the weight room on Monday when the weight bar fell on his neck and blocked his airway.

He spent the next 5 days on life support.

During that time, students desperately folded 1,000 origami cranes, hoping on the legend that you can then make a wish.

But not even all this love could bring him back to life.

So, students past and present, teachers, and fellow classmates who went to this same high school with Bischoff more than two decades ago remembered a bigger than life man.

They remembered a muscular teacher with a big tough exterior who was all heart inside.

If only every high school had a Mr. Bischoff.

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