An audacious French teacher who was fired by the Department of Education amid sexually-charged accusations is finally gone from the charter school where she has been working, The Post has learned.
Just hours after The Post published a front-page story on May 12 about Dulaina Almonte, 33, being fired for texting a student 28,000 times at Truman HS in the Bronx — and then landing a teaching gig at the privately-run AECI 2: NYC Charter High School for Engineering and Innovation — her name was unceremoniously removed from the charter school’s website.
An administration employee answering the phone at the school on Friday said, “She’s no longer working with us.”
Principal Santiago Taveras, Assistant Principal Christopher Mastrocola and CEO Derick Spaulding refused to come to the phone or respond to multiple messages seeking comment.
Two weeks ago, Spaulding suggested he was unaware of Almonte’s shady background because nothing came up when she was fingerprinted.
“All employees have to get fingerprinted. If there was something in a person’s background that was worthy” of not hiring them, “that would show up” there, he said, claiming, “That’s the state’s way of stating this person’s allowed to work” with children.
The teacher herself is mum, although two weeks ago she was far more talkative when reached by The Post.
“I can’t be guilty if I’m still a teacher,” she boasted. “Still a teacher working elsewhere. Like, you really can’t f–king touch me.”
Almonte hung up on a reporter asking for a comment this week, but someone called back on her behalf and claimed the Post’s initial story was “based on false information.”
She further said, “The article you ran has caused nothing but trickle effect. Not only have you affected her but you affected everyone around her, her circle, family, friends and those that know the truth.”
Almonte was fired from her DOE job in 2020 after the Special Commissioner of Investigation substantiated claims of her creepy behavior with teens.
Phone records showed Almonte sent a 17-year-old female student 28,075 late-night texts over 14 months — 66 messages a day — and traded nearly 1,900 texts with a male 12th-grader.
The NYPD also investigated a Truman HS student’s claim that she and a former pupil were “involved in a sex act” in a classroom, according to a police report.
