PLUM, Pa. (AP) - A western Pennsylvania high school teacher jailed on charges he had sex with a student has resigned.
The Plum School Board on Tuesday accepted the resignation of 41-year-old Joseph Ruggieri.
He’s been suspended without pay since his arrest last year on charges of institutional sexual assault and corruption of minors. .
Ruggieri is one of three male teachers at the school charged with having sex with female students. Thirty-eight-year-old Jason Cooper resigned in July.
Cooper and Ruggieri are scheduled for separate trials next month in Allegheny County.
Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Cinefra, a former substitute math teacher and baseball coach, was charged in September for allegedly having a relationship with a 15-year-old student.
A county grand jury has been investigating whether school district officials properly dealt with complaints about inappropriate teacher-student relationships.
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