Watchdog Report: DYS teachers blow whistle on employer Many of the top administrators in the Department of Youth Services Education Initiative, which is charged with teaching and helping turn around the state’s locked-up youth, are unqualified for their positions and worked without licenses for years until finally receiving preliminary licenses from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Paul C. Nordberg, who has taught at DYS for more than a decade, alleges in a complaint recently filed in Worcester Superior Court that those same administrators misused millions in state funding earmarked for DYS teachers and gave themselves hefty raises, while covering up a high rate of teacher turnover ... Continue reading... http://www.telegram.com/article/20160416/NEWS/160419181
