"The United States Department of Education & The Chartered School System Corruption Scandal"
Sep 13, 2014 13:46:16 #
JuliaMi2
Loc: Detroit Michigan
Because the U.S. Economic Crisis of 2008 & the Federal Shutdown of 2013 the United States Department of Education (Public School System,) & Chartered School System are exposed publicly as institutions for organized crime and black marketing.
Theres been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools all over the country.
From Pittsburgh to Baton Rouge, from Hartford to Cincinnati to Albuquerque, FBI agents have been busting into schools, carting off documents, and making arrests leading to high-profile indictments. (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/08/12574/fbi-tracks-charter-schools)
Furthermore, the siphoning Bryant highlights is a litany of charter school financial scandals: in Pennsylvania, the states largest charter school took $1.2 million in improper lease-reimbursement payments; in Philadelphia, four charter schools loaned the nonprofit Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania $3.3 million and made payments of $1.5 million in leasing costs and $6.3 million in administrative fees which Aspira used, according to Bryant, to increase its real estate holdings from $13.34 million in 2011 to $23.15 million in 2012; the founder of Pennsylvanias largest cyber charter faces charges of taking $8 million in school funds for personal expenses including the purchase of an airplane and houses for his mother and girlfriend; and a Houston, Texas charter faces accusations of using $5.3 million in taxpayer funds for hotels, cruises, travel packages, and real estate purchase involving the schools management company. (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/22843-scandals-and-shaky-academic-performance-among-charter-schools.html; Para 3)
State officials have temporarily halted funding to the United Neighborhood Organization, contending the large charter school operator violated terms of a $98 million grant by hiring contractors who are related to one of the group's top executives.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity informed the politically connected organization of the decision in a memo Thursday, citing "an appearance of a conflict of interest." The move puts the brakes on about $14 million in funding the state already has paid $84 million. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-26/news/ct-met-quinn-uno-grant-0426-20130426_1_new-board-members-uno-charter; Para 1 & 2)
Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant attention being given to an assault on civil liberties by the misconceived Education Departments misnamed Office for Civil Rights (OCR). ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alice-in-wonderland-coercion/2013/05/24/14de6762-c490-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html Para 1)
Thirty-five Atlanta Public School educators were accused by a grand jury of racketeering, false statements and writings, false swearing, theft by taking and influencing witnesses. (http://www.artofteachingscience.org/atlanta-erasure-debacl/; Para 1)
What's your own view of the state of public education in this country?
Where are we today: is the US system of public education as a whole in crisis? The answer to that question, I believe, is no. Today it would be more accurate to say that we have two systems of public education, not one: The Public School System & The Chartered School System. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/vouchers/howbad/crisis.html)
In my opinion the public school system in the United States of America is currently corrupt and lacking in funding as a result of the economic recession and high inflation rates. As a result of this corruption the Federal Government has closed 75% of the U.S. Educational Institutions. An example of how the United States Department of Education is failing the community is clearly illustrate in Dan Rather's Documentary on the Detroit Public School System Bankruptcy: "A National Disgrace," @ http://youtu.be/4xypiZ-hqdY
Theres been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools all over the country.
From Pittsburgh to Baton Rouge, from Hartford to Cincinnati to Albuquerque, FBI agents have been busting into schools, carting off documents, and making arrests leading to high-profile indictments. (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/08/12574/fbi-tracks-charter-schools)
Furthermore, the siphoning Bryant highlights is a litany of charter school financial scandals: in Pennsylvania, the states largest charter school took $1.2 million in improper lease-reimbursement payments; in Philadelphia, four charter schools loaned the nonprofit Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania $3.3 million and made payments of $1.5 million in leasing costs and $6.3 million in administrative fees which Aspira used, according to Bryant, to increase its real estate holdings from $13.34 million in 2011 to $23.15 million in 2012; the founder of Pennsylvanias largest cyber charter faces charges of taking $8 million in school funds for personal expenses including the purchase of an airplane and houses for his mother and girlfriend; and a Houston, Texas charter faces accusations of using $5.3 million in taxpayer funds for hotels, cruises, travel packages, and real estate purchase involving the schools management company. (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/22843-scandals-and-shaky-academic-performance-among-charter-schools.html; Para 3)
State officials have temporarily halted funding to the United Neighborhood Organization, contending the large charter school operator violated terms of a $98 million grant by hiring contractors who are related to one of the group's top executives.
The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity informed the politically connected organization of the decision in a memo Thursday, citing "an appearance of a conflict of interest." The move puts the brakes on about $14 million in funding the state already has paid $84 million. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-26/news/ct-met-quinn-uno-grant-0426-20130426_1_new-board-members-uno-charter; Para 1 & 2)
Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant attention being given to an assault on civil liberties by the misconceived Education Departments misnamed Office for Civil Rights (OCR). ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alice-in-wonderland-coercion/2013/05/24/14de6762-c490-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html Para 1)
Thirty-five Atlanta Public School educators were accused by a grand jury of racketeering, false statements and writings, false swearing, theft by taking and influencing witnesses. (http://www.artofteachingscience.org/atlanta-erasure-debacl/; Para 1)
What's your own view of the state of public education in this country?
Where are we today: is the US system of public education as a whole in crisis? The answer to that question, I believe, is no. Today it would be more accurate to say that we have two systems of public education, not one: The Public School System & The Chartered School System. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/vouchers/howbad/crisis.html)
In my opinion the public school system in the United States of America is currently corrupt and lacking in funding as a result of the economic recession and high inflation rates. As a result of this corruption the Federal Government has closed 75% of the U.S. Educational Institutions. An example of how the United States Department of Education is failing the community is clearly illustrate in Dan Rather's Documentary on the Detroit Public School System Bankruptcy: "A National Disgrace," @ http://youtu.be/4xypiZ-hqdY
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