Bergen Woman Loses Teaching Licenses After Student Abuse Charges

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A special education teacher has agreed to forfeit her New Jersey teaching licenses following allegations she abused special education students, officials said.

Ashley L. Frabizzio, 34, of Butler, was arrested and charged in December 2015, when she assaulted students at Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School in Elmwood Park, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said at the time of her arrest. She was charged with two counts of child abuse and two counts of simple assault.

Frabizzio lost her teacher of students with disabilities certificate of eligibility, teacher of elementary school in grades kindergarten through fifth, teacher of preschool through third grades certificates of eligibility with advanced standing, and teacher of elementary school in grades kindergarten through fifth and teacher of preschool through third grade certificates, effective May 17, the New Jersey State Board of Examiners ruled.

As part of the license revocation, Frabizzio did not admit to the abuse charges against her.

Related: Bergen County Teacher Abused, Assaulted Special Ed Students: Prosecutor

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