NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The principal of an elite New York City high school has announced his retirement amid an investigation into a cheating scandal at the institution.
Stanley Teitel said Friday he will step down as principal of Stuyvesant High School Sept. 1, The New York Times reported.
He did not mention the cheating scandal in his retirement letter posted online, but said he wanted "time to devote my energy to my family and personal endeavors."
School officials discovered in June 71 students were engaged in a cheating ring in which they used mobile phones to share photographs of test pages from the New York state Regents exams, the Times reported.
Teitel sent letters to those caught cheating, stripping them of class privileges. Several students face suspension in the fall, the newspaper reported.
Chiara Coletti, a spokeswoman for a union representing the city's principals, said she has not spoken to Teitel, but suspects the scandal was hard on him.
"Knowing what I know about him and his stature in the school community, what happened with the cheating would be enormously demoralizing," she said.
