Grants Given for Nonexistent Students
The D.C. school system received almost $4 million in federal funds for educating migrant children when it did not have any, city and federal officials said yesterday.
The school system received $3.85 million between 1994 and 2004 for children whose families had seasonal employment in agriculture and fishing. The U.S. Department of Education awarded the grants on an annual basis based on information submitted by D.C. education officials.
'SKIMMING' KIDS' MILK MONEY
August 14, 2007 -- A flamboyant Queens principal who has been hailed by Chancellor Joel Klein once used students' lunch money to help foot the bill for limos to the premiere of a school-produced rap video, investigators charged yesterday.
School probers said the funds were among more than $30,000 misappropriated by Shango Blake, the four-year principal of IS 109.
Blake, 37, of Queens, allegedly misused funds he had collected from students and parents for school lunches, snacks and graduation expenses between May 2005 and June 2006.
Sisters Found Guilty of Fraud
BARTOW — A jury returned a guilty verdict today in the case of two sisters accused of stealing money from Florida’s school voucher program and other state and federal programs.
Betty Mae Mitchell and Jeannette Nealy were accused of using their family’s private schools, Faith Christian Academy in Bartow and Cathedral of Faith Christian Academy in Lakeland, to steal the money.
The sisters, and other family members, are accused of bilking the voucher system of approximately $200,000 by submitting fake receipts for school lunches never served and by claiming many more students were enrolled in the schools than actually were.
School Construction Corporation Ended
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation last week that immediately dissolves the much-maligned New Jersey Schools Construction Corp. (SCC), which had gained a reputation for waste and fraud during its five-year, multibillion dollar effort to build schools across the state.
Seneca East school bus mechanic sentenced to one year for theft
A former school bus mechanic employed by the Seneca East school district was sentenced Tuesday in Seneca County Common Pleas Court to one year in prison for theft in office.
The charge was in connection with misappropriation of more than $21,000 in school property and state sales tax over a three-year period, according to Seneca County Prosecutor Ken Egbert Jr. Todd C. Frankart, 44, E. County Rd. 6, Bloom Township, previously entered a guilty plea in April to theft in office, a third-degree felony, for embezzling school property in a period of time starting in 2002 through June 2006. Frankart was employed as school bus mechanic at the time.
Frankart held a public office by virtue of his employment with the school district.
According to Egbert, Frankart used his official position as bus mechanic with the school with authority to purchase parts from local auto parts stores to repair school buses. He misappropriated property to facilitate a fraud when he instead purchased parts to repair cars in his private auto repair business.
That resulted in a loss of school property valued at $20,000 of taxpayer money. Frankart profited from his theft from the school district by charging out his labor and materials purchased through the school's tax exempt status to perform auto repair work.
District's Ex-Charter Schools Chief Admits Fraud
Brenda Belton had some gall, by her own admission. As charter school oversight chief for the D.C. Board of Education, she repeatedly stole from the school system, arranging about $649,000 in illegal school payments and sweetheart contracts to herself and her friends.
Yesterday, she pleaded guilty to four felony counts of cheating the low-performing schools system over three years and trying to avoid taxes on her ill-gotten gains.
The former schools executive revealed numerous instances of the system's supervisors failing to catch on to what she was doing -- even as she was forging signatures, fabricating invoices and depositing taxpayer money into her bank account.
Ex-school official charged with fraud
....School officials said Tague was terminated by the Board of Education when they learned he had violated the district's conflict of interest policy by awarding contracts for school equipment and furniture to a company he had an interest in.
The total dollar amount of the alleged fraud could be in excess of $200,000, according to school and police officials.
I could go on all day with examples involving only fraud. I haven't even touched on the legal but wasteful uses of funding.
Every family that sacrifices to provide a private or homeschool education shrinks the monstrosity that has become the government school system. In addition, increased competition would provide a motive for better fiscal management.
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