{"id":301549,"date":"2026-06-09T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301549\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:43:07","slug":"former-island-coast-teacher-faces-hearing-accused-of-vaping-in-class-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301549\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Island Coast teacher faces hearing; accused of vaping in class | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A former Island Coast High School teacher accused of testing positive for cocaine and allowing students to vape in her classroom is a step closer to losing her job.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County School Board is holding a judicial hearing on the recommendation to terminate Nuria Acuna&#8217;s employment. The district filed a petition to fire Acuna last September.<\/p>\n<p>After a state hearing request was filed, she was suspended without pay pending the outcome. District documents show Acuna tested positive for cocaine following a drug test last February.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said students reported she allowed vaping in class, shared her personal vape device and sold snacks to students. In 2025, WINK News Investigates reporter Olivia Jean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/she-would-give-us-vapes-lee-county-teacher-tested-positive-for-cocaine-district-moves-to\/article_9dd7b38d-709c-4b82-a9af-dfb28cc575cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spoke with a former student about her experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will determine the final outcome of Acuna&#8217;s employment with the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A former Island Coast High School teacher accused of testing positive for cocaine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-301549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}