Stupid Educator/Union News

Why was this guy allowed in a classroom?
From the LVRJ:
So much for second chances.
A disgraced Clark County School District teacher who was fired several years ago but recently won his job back in arbitration was sent home from Bonanza High School on Friday after officials learned he faces felony drug trafficking charges.
John Mannion, 54, was arrested in July after authorities said he sold the prescription painkiller Oxycontin to an undercover Las Vegas police detective.
He also admitted to smoking methamphetamine after detectives found 0.8 grams of it in a black bag next to a glass pipe on his bedside table, according to a police report.
District officials did not find out about the July arrest until Thursday, a few weeks after Mannion returned to work. He had taught physical education at Bonanza since March 4.
School District spokeswoman Amanda Fulkerson said Mannion on Friday was suspended with pay, but that status is temporary. Mannion has a meeting scheduled with administrators next week. Afterward, he probably will be suspended without pay.
Mannion was fired several years ago after a 2009 arrest on theft charges and has spent the past four years trying to clear his name.
Then a teacher and varsity football coach at Coronado High School, Mannion was accused of stealing about $17,000 in booster donations between July 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009.
Officials at Coronado became suspicious after students found a bag containing more than $5,000 in cash behind a bookshelf in the coach’s office.
Prosecutors said Mannion mishandled funds by not immediately giving the money to the school banker but were unable to prove that he took the missing cash.
After criminal charges were dismissed in February 2011, Mannion challenged his firing. An arbitrator ruled in his favor in February 2012. It took another year for Mannion to sort out his teacher licensing issues and for the district to find him a new school.
The drug trafficking arrest in the midst of his appeal apparently went unnoticed. Authorities allege he sold drugs to a detective on three occasions: July 6 for $120, July 13 for $120 and July 25 for $1,000.
Neither police nor the district attorney’s office alerted school officials about the arrest, possibly because they didn’t know Mannion was a school district employee.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/reinstated-teacher-again-suspended-after-drug-arrest
What this tells me is that CCSD does not routinely look at public records available to them to see if an employee has been arrested or convicted of a crime.