A Piscataway teacher accused of having sexual relations with a student has been stripped of his teachers credentials.
A suspended Piscataway teacher who's accused of having sex with an 18-year-old student has been stripped of his teaching certificates.
The Board of Examiners, the licensing agency responsible for teachers, last week formally adopted its decision to strip Adrian A. McConney of his teacher of health and physical education and teacher of driver education certificates, according to the Board's order of suspension document.
In its order, the Board considered whether it had grounds to take action against McConney given that his case was still pending.
But the Board ultimately maintained that McConney's indictment provided "just cause to take action against his certificates."
"In this case, McConney has been indicted for an offense involving sexual conduct with a student," according to the order. "The Board, therefore, finds that McConney's potential disqualification from service in the public schools of this state because of his indictment for official misconduct provides just cause to take action against his certificates."
McConney, however, argued that "it would be unfair and premature as the Board could not know the outcome of the criminal litigation."
It is unclear whether McConney plans to challenge the ruling. McConney and his attorney, Tim Smith, of Fairfield, could not be reached for comment on Thursday.
The Board, according to the order, "determined that no material facts related to McConney's offense were in dispute since he admitted that he had been indicted for the offenses." Therefore, the Board found that its decision "was appropriate in this matter."
McConney was indicted in 2013 on a charge of official misconduct for having the sexual relationship with the 18-year-old student.
The indictment was dismissed in 2014 after a judge ruled the relationship was not unlawful because the student was 18 years old, previous reports said. However, the indictment was reinstated in July 2015 by the state Appellate Division.
The primary issue that the Board had to figure out is "whether his conduct underlying his indictment" constituted "conduct unbecoming a certificate holder."
The Board, it wrote, "may revoke or suspend the certification of any certificate holder on the basis of demonstrated inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming a teacher or other just cause."
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