Metro

B’klyn principal, ass’t bounced from school

Two Brooklyn administrators with checkered work histories were yanked from their elementary school yesterday after investigators substantiated new charges against them, authorities said.

Jonathan Straughn, principal of PS 276 in Canarsie, retaliated against an employee who had reported him for being too aggressive with a student, and manhandled another kid just for laughing in the main office, the investigators found.

Straughn also “coerced” students to say that a teacher already cleared by investigators had forcibly grabbed them, according to a DOE report. The report added that Assistant Principal Maizelin Knowlin, who lives in New Jersey, had lied about her address to enroll her three kids in the city’s public schools since 2005.

Remarkably, Straughn already had four substantiated charges on his record — including two for corporal punishment — while Knowlin had three confirmed cases against her.

Straughn has been charged with a conflict of interest for paying for a room for him and Knowlin on a staff cruise. Authorities were probing the nature of their relationship.

Neither could immediately be reached for comment.