Parents nationwide continue to express concerns about the environment provided by local school districts, from exposure to sexual content to political indoctrination.

But as Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently noted, those are far from the only potential threats students face from educators.

According to The Hill:

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McMahon criticized the practice of a school district reassigning a teacher accused of sexually harassing a student to another school.

“And it’s not part of their record or anything, so we have really been cracking down on that as well,” she told host Dana Bash.

McMahon also noted that 1 in 10 children will be sexually molested by the time they finish high school, citing research her department conducted.

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ProPublica and KQED reported in May that the state of California did not revoke the professional licenses of 67 teachers whom school districts determined sexually harassed students or committed other types of sexual misconduct from 2019 through 2025.

Her warning sparked some social media discussion:

And it came in the wake of another troubling incident involving a California teacher:

The New York Post added these details:

“We did a study. And it came from the general education statistics that were afforded to us. And so when we looked at that and we really looked at those stats coming out of California,” she explained.

Later in the same article:
Last month, a California Post scoop revealed that the Golden State was at risk of losing $50 million in Title I federal funds if it failed to properly penalize abusive teachers due to a crackdown from the Trump administration.

Over two decades ago, a report for Congress found that over 4.5 million children endured sexual misconduct, ranging from physical abuse to inappropriate comments.

Here’s a clip from the interview:

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