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Experts: Officials overly cautious about suspicions

By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday June 15, 2008

How Urbana and McLean Unit 5 school districts dealt with Jon White is not unique.

There tend to be patterns in how schools respond to suspicions of child sexual abuse, said Charol Shakeshaft, a Virginia Commonwealth University educational leadership professor and author of a 2004 U.S. Department of Education paper on educator sexual misconduct.

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