Bill Beeson, a former drama teacher at Virginia City High School who pleaded guilty last August to soliciting a minor, will no longer be allowed to teach in Nevada.
The Nevada Board of Education voted Friday to permanently revoke his teaching license. Although Beeson's license had already been suspended, Keith Rheault, superintendent of the Nevada Department of Education, recommended permanent action.
Beeson pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from an incident in 1996 of gross misdemeanor solicitation of a minor to engage in infamous crimes against nature.
In exchange for the plea, charges of felony sexual assault and gross misdemeanor unlawful contact with a child were dismissed.
In avoiding a trial, Beeson also avoided possibly damning testimony from three other young men who alleged the former drama coach also assaulted them in the 1990s.
He was sentenced in October to one year in jail and sex offender registration.