PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland Public Schools teacher was finally taken off the district’s payroll after his sixth arrest since officials placed him on paid administrative leave nearly two years ago.

Portland Public Schools officials first placed Holladay Center special education teacher Andrew Oshea on paid administrative leave in November 2015 for an undisclosed on-the-job incident, and he’s continued to draw his $75,725 salary during several stints in area jails, the Portland Tribune reports.

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“His crimes include violating an ex-girlfriend’s restraining order, drunk driving, domestic violence and breaking the terms of his probation,” according to the news site. “In one such instance, on Oct. 3 2016, Hood River sheriff’s officers accused Oshea of busting a girlfriend’s cellphone when she tried to call 911 after a fight, then running over her bicycle with his vehicle to keep her from leaving.”

That incident resulted in a misdemeanor assault charge, but its only one of many he’s faced as he served 32 work days in jail while collecting his salary during the administrative leave.

Last September, a bartender in Hood River called police to report Oshea was shoving his hands down a girl’s shirt at the bar and calling her “a f***ing whore” during a heaving drinking episode. Oshea reportedly drove off before officers arrived and later told police a friend who was a methamphetamine dealer gave him a ride, though he could not provide a name.

In that incident, Oshea was arrested for drunk driving, domestic violence harassment, and disorderly conduct.

He was also charged with fourth-degree assault the same month, as well as another drunk driving and a probation violation in February 2017, previous Tribune reports show.

Interim Superintendent Yousef Awwad has blamed the district’s inaction in firing Oshea on “complicated” rules outlined in state law and the teachers union’s contract, though the news site points out that tenured Oregon educators can be dismissed for “any just cause which constitutes grounds for the revocation of such contract teacher’s teaching license.”

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A probation violation, of which Oshea has several, is considered grounds for losing a teaching license.

“Also, teachers on paid administrative leave are supposed to be able to return to work if asked, and incarceration isn’t an excuse for missing the call of duty,” according to the Tribune. “But over the course of almost two years, while Oshea was in and out of jail, no one at PPS appears to have acted on that return-to-work requirement until the Portland Tribune publicized Oshea’s case.”

Meanwhile, district officials have refused to discuss Oshea’s case, including the reason he was put on leave in the first place or why they have not moved more quickly to terminate him.

School officials, school board members, Oshea’s union attorney, and Oshea himself have all refused to comment on his situation.

Ironically, the wall of silence continues despite the district’s vow in August to usher in a new era of transparency with new superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero.

“We’re a public institution, we’re public officials, we’re public employees,” school board chairwoman Julia Brim-Edwards said at the board’s Aug. 29 meeting. “The work we do should be public.”

Brim-Edwards said the school board’s new policy is “to assume our work is public unless there is a very clear and compelling reason it shouldn’t be.”

The Tribune contacted Brim-Edwards to discuss Oshea, but she refused. The school board is currently fighting the Tribune and parent activist Kim Sordyl in court to block the public from viewing the names of teachers on paid administrative leave, and Brim-Edwards refused to discuss that, as well.

“Given this was a case that was advanced under the prior board,” she said wrote in a prepared statement, “the new board will be scheduling a briefing on the case and the implication this may have on our new draft policy which seeks to make our public records and school district business more transparent and accessible to the community.”

Brim-Edwards did not provide a “clear and compelling” reason for the lawsuit, the news site reports.