Bogus Barns and Administrative Excess: How School District Fraud and Waste Cuts Into Teacher...

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    Bogus Barns and Administrative Excess: How School District Fraud and Waste Cuts Into Teacher Pay

    This May, Ohio authorities indicted a Strongsville City school maintenance foreman for using school funds to buy equipment for his personal use. Among the items fraudulently charged to the school account were a generator, thermal camera, lawn mower, snow plow and, oh yes, a barn. All told, the illicitly obtained goods were worth some $65,000 -- almost as much as the median annual salary of a Strongsville teacher. At about the same time authorities began looking into the maintenance man's purchases, school administrators and teachers went on strike in Arizona, Oklahoma, and elsewhere. Their beef? That state lawmakers were not ...


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    Other Views: How school district fraud and waste cuts into teacher pay

    This May, Ohio authorities indicted a Strongsville City school maintenance foreman for using school funds to buy equipment for his personal use. Among the items fraudulently charged to the school account were a generator, thermal camera, lawn mower, snow plow and, oh yes, a barn. All told, the illicitly obtained goods were worth some $65,000—almost as much as the median annual salary of a Strongsville teacher. At about the same time authorities began looking into the maintenance man’s purchases, school administrators and teachers went on strike in Arizona, Oklahoma, and elsewhere. Their beef? That state lawmakers were not spending enough ...


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