Kansas City, Mo ? Two people with felony convictions were hired as summer school teachers for the Kansas City school district, which admits it didn’t properly check their backgrounds.

The district discovered the mistakes two weeks ago and made them public Wednesday.

“As soon as we found out, the people were no longer with us,” school board president Al Mauro said. “It was an administrative glitch.”

The district failed to conduct background checks on some teachers hired for the summer, blaming a sudden increase in enrollment and new summer programs that left it without enough teachers.

According to a memo written by Sherry Samples, manager of recruitment and staffing, one of the teachers had a conviction for lewd and lascivious behavior, and the other served four years on an assault conviction. Both were removed from the classroom as soon as school officials learned about their backgrounds.

Samples’ memo also mentioned a third teacher hired despite a Division of Family Services finding of “probable cause for physical abuse,” and three more who were ineligible for district employment, including one who had been fired for cause previously. The district, saying the issue was a personnel issue, would not comment.

Samples’ memo said as the teacher shortage became obvious, some district officials began pressing human resources personnel to “just get ‘anybody’ out to the schools.”