A longtime New Jersey teacher has lost all of his teaching certificates after state officials found he helped falsely claim thousands of dollars in Hurricane Sandy disaster relief money.
In a decision issued last month, the state Commissioner of Education upheld a 2024 ruling by the State Board of Examiners revoking all teaching certificates held by Harry Guerriere, of Jersey City.
According to the commissioner’s ruling, Guerriere, who worked as an educator in New Jersey for decades, and his wife fraudulently misrepresented where they lived in order to qualify for disaster relief funds distributed after Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of the state in 2012…