Dozens of NYC educators placed on leave for alleged fake vax cardsBy Cayla Bamberger
April 21, 2022
Dozens of New York City Department of Education employees will be placed on leave without pay starting Monday for allegedly submitting phony proof of COVID-19 vaccination, The Post has learned.
The staffers in question, including teachers and administrators, were notified via email Wednesday not to come back to work after spring break, according to the DOE and screenshots shared on social media.
“Fraudulent vaccination cards are not only illegal, they also undermine the best line of protection our schools have against COVID-19 — universal adult vaccination,” said Nathaniel Styer, a spokesperson for the department.
“We immediately moved to put these employees — fewer than 100 — on leave without pay,” he said.
Some teachers have reached out to the DOE to say they received the notice “in error,” according to the teachers union.
“It is wholly improper for the DOE to unilaterally remove UFT members from the payroll based on mere conjecture that vaccination documentation is fraudulent,” Beth Norton, general counsel at the United Federation of Teachers, wrote to the DOE.
At least two other city agencies — the FDNY and the Sanitation Department — have also had issues with vaccination card fraud among their workers. This winter, two high-ranking NYPD cops were placed on modified duty after allegedly trying to evade the citywide vaccine mandate by submitting the bogus paperwork.
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