ALBANY - Nicholas Provanzana was the kind of teacher administrators, fellow teachers and students at Washingtonville High School loved - "the coolest teacher alive," according to one music student's Internet posting in 2003.
They didn't know he had pleaded guilty to "offensive touching" of a minor in New Jersey after a night of heavy drinking and sex games in 2000 with two girl students, according to New York state records. He served 60 days in jail and was on five years probation when he began teaching at Washingtonville, in the Hudson Valley, according to state education records.
