STATE OF VERMONT
AGENCY OF EDUCATION

In Re: LI-17-253 (Mario Macias)

FORMAL CHARGE

By authority of State of Vermont pursuant to 16 V.S.A. ?l701(b) the Secretary of Education
charges Licensee with unprofessional conduct in violation of 16 V.S.A. ?1698, to wit:

Count 1
Mario Macias, Licensee, while employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, deliberately falsi?ed information regarding the evaluation of a
learner, speci?cally a student transcript which was a single egregious act of willful misconduct
in violation of duties and obligations of the position in violation of 16 V.S.A. and

Count 2
Mario Macias, Licensee, While employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, failed to maintain a professional relationship with a college
student who was substitute teaching at Burlington High School. Licensee used the power and
authority of his position as an administrator and created an intimidating, hostile or offensive
working environment, and together such conduct is a single egregious act of willful misconduct
in violation of duties and obligation of the position in violation of 16 V.S.A. ?l698(l)(E); and

Count 3
Mario Macias, Licensee, while employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, unreasonably impaired colleagues? ability to perform their
professional duties, speci?cally, by pointing his ?nger in a an employee?s face and shouting in
an angry voice, by ridiculing an employee in front of others including a practicum student, and
by intimidating employees who complained to the principal about these incidents, and together
such conduct demonstrates a pattern of willful misconduct in violation of duties and obligations
of the position in violation of 16 V.S.A. ?1698(l)(E).

Count 4
Mario Macias, Licensee, while employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, revealed his knowledge of highly sensitive personal
information regarding a student to the student and a third party and in the presence of the third
party made the student discuss the highly traumatic events in the student?s past which was an
grossly negligent conduct placing a student in meaningful emotional jeopardy in violation of 16
V.S.A. ?l698(1)(A); and

Count 5
Mario Macias, Licensee, while employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, failed to provide appropriate supervision of learners taking a
standardized test by allowing students to talk to one another during the administration of the test

and creating a disruptive testing environment for a student who had not yet completed the exam.
As a result of Licensee?s comments and gestures toward the student, the student felt pressured
and stopped working before expiration of the allotted time and before completing the exam, and
together this conduct is a single egregious act of willful misconduct in violation of duties and
obligation of the position in violation of 16 V.S.A. and

Count 6
Mario Macias, Licensee, while employed as the Guidance Director for Burlington High School
in the Burlington School District, was unaware of the basic functions of the guidance department
and demonstrated incompetence, meaning inability or incapacity to perform the duties and
competencies required by the license in violation of 16 V.S.A. ?1698(2).

Secretarv? 5 Recommendation

The Secretary of Education hereby recommends that the Vermont Educator License of Mario
Macias be SUSPENDED for a period of 364 days.

DATED: 7 7 


Daniel M. French, 
Secretary of Education