They’ve slapped around students, ripped off taxpayers and boozed it up in the classroom — and they’re all still employed as city public-school teachers.
A review of nearly 100 disciplinary hearings from 2011, obtained by a Post Freedom of Information Law request, shows the city had to fight tooth and nail to remove lawbreaking, abusive teachers — terminating a paltry 31 percent of the 70 charged with misconduct.
And the city could dismiss only 12 of 26 teachers who were brought up on charges of incompetence — which is driving a push by Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg for new teacher evaluations.
Union rules mandate that the city Department of Education mount what seems like a criminal case in order to remove a teacher — allowing an independent arbitrator to constantly overrule the city’s judgment.
“It’s outrageous these teachers are allowed to remain in the classroom when their misconduct should disqualify them from being responsible for the education of our students,” said DOE spokeswoman Barbara Morgan.
The records revealed:
* Three teachers at the same school — the Queens HS of Teaching, Liberal Arts and Sciences — were caught knocking back Chivas Regal and MacGregor scotch between classes and while mentoring students.
Brian Bachisin, his fiancé, teacher Erica Fairfull, and teacher Walter Brown were spared the ax even though DOE officials wanted them fired.
A co-ed whom Bachisin was mentoring said he was bold enough to offer her a drink, and the Adelphi student complained about the inappropriate behavior.
Instead of kicking them out, state hearing officers fined Bachisin $5,000 and Fairfull $25,000.
Brown, who admitted to a drinking problem, received a one-year suspension and was ordered to received treatment.
* Two instructors who lied to the federal government about their income in order to fraudulently qualify for Section 8 subsidized housing.
Tonia Hemingway of PS 194 in Harlem and Wendy Aponte of the Amistad Dual Language school in The Bronx pleaded guilty in the separate crimes.
Education officials said they were unfit to be teachers and role models.
But disciplinary hearing officers kept them on the job — and in Hemingway’s case, ordered the DOE to give her back pay.
Hemingway admitted that over four years, she obtained $45,948 in undeserved rental subsidies.
Aponte pleaded guilty to one count of “theft of government funds.” Her license was suspended for a year, and she was ordered to pay $27,000.
* A teacher got away with slapping one of her pupils — one in a slew who’ve physically abused students.
The girl got too “sassy” for teacher Beverly Riley’s liking — so she struck her.
The 15-year veteran was reinstated because a Manhattan appeals court found that her penalty was inconsistent with other rulings — and because the slap left no physical mark.
Additional reporting by Cynthia Fagen