FRAUD = Stealing
Charter School Fraud = STEALING TAX DOLLARS for corporate profit.
Corporate profit - the middle name of the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC even wrote a whole report on "
Designing School Choice", that they distributed to EVERY ALEC member.
When was the last time you saw a news article about a "real" public school official engaged in fraud? (As a for-profit corporatist stealing tax dollars)
WHEN?
BUT - when you put taxpayer dollars in the hands of for-profit companies - you are asking for trouble.
For profit companies don't give a damn about taxpayer dollars and where they come from - they are only concerned on where they can spend the tacpayer dollars they receive.
Greedy people with no respect for taxpayer dollars.
So when your ALEC legislator starts telling you how good it is for the free-market to take over control of public education systems - remember these stories.
Read it and weep! YOUR tax dollars.
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Gregory Goner, 41, of Milwaukee
was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury on
four counts of theft of federal funds and one count of wire fraud. The
theft counts carry a maximum of 10 years in prison and the fraud count 20
years.
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FORMER
CHARTER SCHOOL
HEAD ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT INDICTMENT ALLEGES WOMAN STOLE MORE THAN $300,000
IN FEDERAL MONEY; January 24, 2008; Associated Press
The U.S. attorney's office accused the former head of a Milwaukee charter school Wednesday of
embezzling more than $300,000 in federal money.
A grand jury
indicted Rosella Tucker, 54, of Milwaukee, on two counts
of theft from a program receiving federal funds.
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'Lack of oversight' in charter schools encouraging education
fraud
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
In the latest incident of charter school fraud, the state of
Oregon is
going after a pair of charter school con
men who reportedly scammed the state out of $17 million.
The Oregonian is reporting that Tim King and Norm Donohoe,
who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools under the guise of a
nonprofit named EdChoices, "submitted
false, incomplete and misleading records about how many students were enrolled
in the schools and how they were spending the state's money.
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Jet Skis, Scottish real estate, Louis Vuitton bags: how
crooks have cashed in on the charter school boom.
—By Stephanie Mencimer
| November/December 2011 Issue
Charter schools have been held up as models of innovative
school reform, but due to a striking lack of oversight (PDF), the sector is
also a magnet for fraud. Between 2005
and 2011, the US
Department of Education opened 53 investigations into charter school fraud,
resulting in 21 indictments and 17 convictions
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By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: April 12, 2012
When state investigators demanded last year to see personal
tax returns filed by Eddie Calderon-Melendez, the founder and chief executive
of a troubled network of charter high schools in Brooklyn,
he produced them. One problem, according to the investigators, was that those
state tax returns were falsified and had never been filed.
Then, when the investigators studied the books of one of the
schools, Williamsburg Charter
High School, they found that Mr.
Calderon-Melendez had used a school credit card to pay for parts of a European
vacation, including accommodations at a Paris
hotel and some expenses in England,
they said. On Thursday, a
grand jury in Brooklyn indicted Mr.
Calderon-Melendez on 11 felony counts, including tax fraud, grand larceny and
falsifying business records.
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Jill Tucker
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A controversial Oakland
charter school with a history of rigid rules, harsh discipline and the second
highest test scores in the state faces closure after an investigation found
evidence of fraud and multiple violations of state laws.
Oakland
school district staff has recommended the Board of Education deny the renewal
application of American Indian Charter School II based on preliminary findings
of a state audit. If denied, the public school would close after this academic
year.
The financial
allegations involve more than $1 million in public funds funneled to the
school's founder, Ben Chavis, and his wife, Marsha Amador, for rent,
consulting, construction projects and other questionable payments with
little to no oversight by the school's own board.
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By: Hrafnkell HaraldssonJan. 6th, 2013
According to the Oregonian, “Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who
ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools across small-town Oregon from
their headquarters in Clackamas, scammed
the state out of $17 million and must repay that plus $2.7 million more,
the state said in a court filing this week.”
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State educators
are seeking criminal charges against the executives of a charter school
operation after an audit found they had
misused at least $25.6 million in public education money, including $2.6
million for personal expenses.
The audit found
that executives of the now-closed California
Charter Academy
used public funds to pay for personal watercrafts, travel, health spa visits,
Disney-related merchandise and more. Two employees even paid their income taxes
with $42,000 in school funds.
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Four School Executives Charged with Conspiring with Brown to
Obstruct Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office July 24, 2012
Eastern District
of Pennsylvania (215) 861-8200
PHILADELPHIA—Dorothy June Brown, 75, of Haverford,
Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with defrauding three charter
schools of more than $6.5 million between 2007 and April 2011.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:00 am
Jeb Bush, governor of Florida,
was cited as a model for charter schools. But Florida’s charter school record is not
pretty.
Most charter schools are managed by a for-profit
corporation. The charter school initiative just passed here authorizes a
for-profit corporation to manage charter schools. So not only will we pay for
education, we will also pay dearly for a management company to make a profit.
Orlando, FL,
Channel 9 WFTV, investigated Dayspring
Academy charter school,
and John Legg, who requested a change in admission rules, that favored the
schools’ achievement records. Legg is a powerful state representative. Conflict of interest charges have been
filed.
Orange county, FL, Orlando Sentinel, reports that Northstar
Charter School
paid principal, Kelly Young, $519,453.36 of taxpayer money two days after
the school closed. Her yearly pay and
bonuses were higher than the superintendent of public schools.
These are only a few
of the thousands of cases of fraud involving charter schools nationwide.
These are only a few
of the thousands of cases of fraud involving charter schools nationwide.
These are only a few
of the thousands of cases of fraud involving charter schools nationwide.
These are only a few
of the thousands of cases of fraud involving charter schools nationwide.
These are only a few
of the thousands of cases of fraud involving charter schools nationwide.
