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Too bad for Harvey Weinstein that he wasn’t a New York public-school principal — because he’d still have his job, despite all the highly credible accusations against him.

As Susan Edelman reported in Sunday’s Post, state law says that educators with tenure can’t be brought up on disciplinary charges more than three years after their alleged misconduct. They can be shunted into jobs where they can’t harass again; that’s it.

That’s what new Chancellor Richard Carranza did with Howard Kwait, who’s out as principal of John Bowne HS in Flushing — after The Post started asking questions, since the city has paid $830,000 to settle five lawsuits centering on his more-than-3-years-old conduct, including four for sexual harassment and retaliation.

But he’ll collect $156,671 in salary (plus contractual raises) and new pension credits.

And David Jimenez remains as principal at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics in Harlem, though the city just settled an assistant principal’s harassment suit for $150,000.

In another case, a teacher complained about sex-harassment by PS 15 Jackie Robinson Principal Antonio K’tori to the district superintendent, Lenon Murray — who, ironically, later pleaded guilty to groping a female employee.

Edelman lists other horror stories, but the point is obvious: Educators’ job protections go far too far — even saving them when their victims are other educators.

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