During the calendar year 2021, 24 North Carolina public school staffers and 15 individuals were arrested that worked in either a charter school, a non-public school, or a person who was in a non-teaching role.

Here is the list of public school education employee arrests tracked by this website in 2021. In 2020, this website reported on 29 such arrests.

The list of the charter or non-public/non-teaching arrests can be viewed here.

One of the individuals, Tyrus Khali Cromartie, plead guilty in June to taking indecent liberties with a minor. Cromartie does not appear on the N.C. State Board of Education’s teacher licensing revocation list and licensing records show his teaching license is still active:

Current Date: 12/31/2021 08:15 PM
License Number: 1226487
Name: Cromartie, Tyrus K
License Type: Educator
License Status: Current
Expiration Date: 06/30/2021
Effective Date: 07/01/2018
License Area(s): Mathematics 6-9

According to the educator discipline records on file with the N.C. State Board of Education, there were 18 teachers who faced license-related disciplinary actions between Jan. 2021 and Nov. 2021.

Eight of the 18 disciplinary actions were the voluntary surrender of a teaching license, four were revocation of a teaching license, four involved a reprimand and two involved suspensions of a teaching license.

Only four individuals on the licensure discipline list (see below) had criminal arrests reported by this website.