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Say teacher kicked teen

By FERNANDA SANTOS
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU

A Manhattan special-ed teacher was arrested and charged with shoving a student to the ground and repeatedly kicking him because he refused to hand him a ball in gym class, police said.
Shmuel Levit, 50, is accused of assaulting the 14-year-old boy in the gym at Public School 751 in the East Village, cops said.

Levit was arrested at the school about 2 p.m. Wednesday, just after the alleged attack.

"Mr. Levit has been assigned to the principal's office, where he will perform administrative duties pending the outcome of the investigation," Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said.

Levit was hired in 1991 and has worked at the Manhattan School for Career Development, a special education school on E. Fourth St., for six years, Feinberg said.

In another incident yesterday, cops busted 15-year-old girl at Manhattan's troubled Washington Irving High School after she allegedly attacked a school safety officer who caught her cutting class, police said.

The student broke the safety officer's index finger during a struggle on the way to the principal's office, school officials said.

The girl will be transferred to another school and faces a superintendent's suspension, Education Department spokesman Paul Rose said.