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Employees in the Northside and North East Independent School Districts in San Antonio, Texas, have begun submitting to fingerprinting as part of a new state law, The San Antonio Express-News says. They are the second and third Texas districts, after Austin, to begin fingerprinting in compliance with law, which requires public school employees to have national criminal background checks. In San Antonio, the fingerprinting process has not gone smoothly so far; employees report backlogs and frustration. An estimated 392,000 Texas employees need to submit their fingerprints to the Texas Education Agency. All certified educators, including administrators and substitute teachers, must submit their fingerprints by September 2011.
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