By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org

NEW YORK – Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown recently launched a parent’s group to tackle the issue of teachers who sexually abuse students, and she’s already firing shots across the bow of the biggest enabler of pedophile teachers: New York’s United Federation of Teachers.

Brown took aim at UFT President Michael Mulgrew this week, calling out the union boss for helping to perpetuate a system that allows dangerous teachers to remain on the payroll and often return to the classroom, the New York Daily News reports.

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“You have repeatedly written or said that the UFT has ‘zero tolerance on the issue of sexual misconduct with children,” said Brown, who recently founded the Parents’ Transparency Project. “Unfortunately, the record does not support that claim.”

Brown sent a letter to Mulgrew this week demanding he take action to help city officials terminate sexually abusive teachers faster, the Daily News reports.

Brown cited cases in which a state hearing officer returned dangerous and questionable school employees to work despite troubling evidence. The most recent is former Stuyvesant High School librarian Christopher Asch, who was accused of inappropriate touching and later admitted to attending meetings of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, the Daily News reports.

A state hearing officer issued Asch a mere suspension. He was later charged in a plot to kidnap, torture and rape women and children, according to the newspaper.

“A lawyer may phrase words and play semantics in determining whether these incidents may be defined as ‘sexual contact,’ but parents cannot,” Brown said, according to the newspaper.

City education officials have lobbied Albany lawmakers for the authority to unilaterally terminate teachers they believe are sexual predators, but union resistance has blocked the legislation.

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Brown also turned her spotlight to the city’s mayoral candidates, sending them a survey asking whether they would push for more authority to remove sexual predators from the city’s classrooms.

It was easy to tell which mayoral candidates are working to curry favor with the teachers union. Christine Quinn and Joe Lhota said they would pursue the issue, while Anthony Weiner and Bill de Blasio talked around the question.

Other candidates told the newspaper they hadn’t received the survey.