MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan group of legislators wants teachers who sexually harass students go to prison and lose their licenses. Democratic state Reps. Tip McGuire and Tod Ohnstad along with Republican Sens. Jesse James and John Spiros released a bill Wednesday that would make school employees, contractors or volunteers who engage in sexual misconduct against a pupil guilty of a felony punishable by up to 3 1/2 years. Teachers would automatically lose their licenses for at least six years if convicted of sexual misconduct. Wisconsin already has extensive laws outlawing sexual assault and child pornography but McGuire and Ohnstad said during a news conference that the laws don’t specifically apply to sexual misconduct by school workers.
