The head of the Union City Education Association is caught on camera admitting that she covered up for a teacher who had sex with a student, based on a 15-minute video posted earlier today by conservative group Project Veritas.Â
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“This file right here is from a teacher who had sex with a student, OK? You’re not going to jail,” UCEA President Kathleen Valencia told a woman who posed as the teacher’s sister and was secretly recording her.
“This file is about whether or not the teacher gets to keep his pension. Sex with a teenage girl. Is he going to jail? No. How come? Because the child’s not pressing charges.”
Valencia also says she will get the teacher a lawyer and the only witness is “the scumbag kid” who has a criminal record.
The Union City Board of Education said in a statement that Valencia, who earns just over $68,000 a year, has been suspended in response to the video.
“The board finds the comments that were made deeply disturbing and inappropriate because they in no way reflect the views, and core beliefs and values, of our school district, or of the professionalism of our educators, and other employees,” the statement says.
“We have no governing control over the UCEA, its policies or procedures — we are separate and distinct entities. The UCEA does not speak for our school district.”
James O’Keefe, the owner of Project Veritas, has called on the UCEA to release the name of the teacher who allegedly had a sexual relationship with a student.
The New Jersey Education Association, the statewide teachers union, has been critical of O’Keefe and Project Veritas in the past for selectively editing videos.
A woman working with the group tried to get The Washington Post to publish false information about Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore last year.
