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Broward Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie Arrested on Perjury Charge
Associated Press ^ | April 21, 2021 | Brian Hamacher

Posted on 04/21/2021 12:33:42 PM PDT by jmaroneps37

Runcie has been superintendent of Broward Public Schools since 2011....

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested on a perjury charge Wednesday

Broward County School Board General Counsel Barbara Myrick was also arrested Wednesday as part of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation.

The charges are related to testimony by Runcie and Myrick before a statewide grand jury that was empaneled to investigate possible failures in following school-related safety laws and mismanaging funds solicited for school safety initiatives, FDLE officials said.

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested on a perjury charge Wednesday.

Runcie, 59, was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on a felony charge of perjury in an official proceeding, Broward County jail records showed.

Runcie was booked into jail and released on his own recognizance. Attorney information wasn't available.

FDLE officials said the charge against Runcie is related to his testimony before a statewide grand jury that was empaneled to investigate possible failures in following school-related safety laws and mismanaging funds solicited for school safety initiatives.

The grand jury was empaneled following the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took the lives of 17 students and staff.

FDLE officials said Broward County School Board General Counsel Barbara Myrick was also arrested Wednesday as part of the investigation.

Myrick, 72, is charged with unlawful disclosure of statewide grand jury proceedings, also a felony. She was also booked into jail and released.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Government
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Let's make sure THIS is said, Runcie is a CLOSE FRIEND OF FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBANA.

Runcie lied about the level of crime in Broward schools to steal federal money that the system would not have gotten if the true statistics were presented.

Because of these lies the animal that killed 18 people was able to continue his connections to the school and the murders would never have happened.

This is a great day for Andrew Pollack the father of Meadow Pollack, who was murdered by the swine.

To his great credit he refused to blame these murders on President Trump as the Democrats have and that dirt bag David Hogg does to this day.

This indictment and arrest would NEVER have happened without Gov DeSantis leadership.

Once again because the media will not mention this: Robert Runcie was the Schools Head in Chicago when he and the Community Organizer dreamed up this scheme to make the school LOOK safer and steal federal funds because of that saftey.

1 posted on 04/21/2021 12:33:42 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
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"Robert Runcie was the Schools Head in Chicago when he and the Community Organizer dreamed up this scheme to make the school LOOK safer and steal federal funds because of that saftey."

Confused. So Runcie was a school head in Chicago when he and Obama dreamed up a plan to steal federal funds? And Runcie did that by becoming the school superintendent in Broward County, FL. Where he lied about the level of school safety to get funds.

2 posted on 04/21/2021 12:43:23 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Exactly.


3 posted on 04/21/2021 12:44:59 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
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“Superintendent Runcie joined Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in 2011”


4 posted on 04/21/2021 12:49:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Good...... Flush all of Broward School Board related Hierarchy

Microscope on the school bus ops please.
1st go round wasn’t enough


5 posted on 04/21/2021 12:51:24 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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DeSantis’s justice department is purging the Democrat or RINO criminals. If only Trump did this.


6 posted on 04/21/2021 12:53:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/21/broward-county-school-superintendent-robert-runcie-arrested-for-perjury-during-questioning-about-promise-program/


7 posted on 04/21/2021 12:54:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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The US Department of Jesters has embeds. See my post #7, bottom of article.


8 posted on 04/21/2021 12:55:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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https://www.independentsentinel.com/20-50-students-injured-florida-high-school-student/

The Miami-Herald reported: In 2003, Arne Duncan, then head of the Chicago school district and later Secretary of Education under Barack Obama asked Runcie to oversee the district’s technology department. Runcie went on to serve in other administrative roles, including as chief of staff for the Board of Education, before becoming the Broward schools superintendent in 2011.

9 posted on 04/21/2021 12:57:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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From the linked piece at the CTH:

"Sheriff Israel and Superintendent Ruchie’s implementation of the Broward Promise Program was easy; just stop arresting students and the statistics would be great. As the statistics improve so too does the financial reward from federal grant monies.

While Sheriff Israel and Superintendent Runcie were garnering praise for the results of their program, Parkland school student Nikolas Cruz was a simultaneous benefactor as his anti-social and violent behaviors were being ignored.

This is a simple cause and effect. There are no mistakes being made here. This is entirely by design; as author Jack Cashill noted, this is not “incompetence“, it’s strategic. The fact that Nikolas Cruz was able to exit high school without a police record, then began amassing weapons, and eventually became a school shooter killing 17 students and staff; is an outcome of strategic policy, not incompetence.

While Nikolas Cruz was being ‘handled’ and not documented. The Sheriff’s police force was conducting diversity training seminars, de-escalation meetings, and sensitivity training exercises. The last active shooter training was somewhere around 2006."

10 posted on 04/21/2021 1:07:59 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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Broward is corrupt through and through. I lived there 1950s-20teens and am so glad to be gone.


11 posted on 04/21/2021 1:48:45 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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Ron is the man!


12 posted on 04/21/2021 1:49:25 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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<>FDLE officials said Broward County School Board General Counsel Barbara Myrick was also arrested Wednesday as part of the investigation.<>

Hugh and series. Going after the lawyers too.


13 posted on 04/21/2021 2:07:46 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Me Too!

I was Born there.
(Lauderdale, 1952)

It was a different city/county back then. 8-(


14 posted on 04/21/2021 2:56:16 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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Supt Runcie Hand-Picked by Obama, Got Huge Salary/Perks, Broward Got $53 Million in Federal Grants; Where is the money?
By S.Noble, February 26, 2018

The story behind Nikolas Cruz and the shooting of 33 former classmates and staff is one of the repeated failures of the system from the FBI to the school to the sheriff’s office to social services. The massacre was very foreseeable but politics got in the way. Specifically, politics, funding of more than $53 million, and Chicago school discipline got in the way.

This Was Obama-Chicago Discipline----The Superintendent of Broward County Schools, Robert Runcie, came out of Chicago and the Duncan-Obama administration.

The Miami-Herald reported: In 2003, Arne Duncan, then head of the Chicago school district and later Secretary of Education under Barack Obama asked Runcie to oversee the district’s technology department. Runcie went on to serve in other administrative roles, including as chief of staff for the Board of Education, before becoming the Broward schools superintendent in 2011.

In 2016, he made $335,000 a year in a region that has poor mental health services due to lack of funds. He was well-paid to bring down the numbers and alter the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. It was supposed to happen as a result of the Promise program.

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The Promise----Sheriff Israel's deputies hid while students and faculty were being slaughtered. Holding fast to Obama's PROMISE plan was the order of the day-----not protecting students.

The Promise---- The school board instituted a program called Promise which made not reporting criminal behavior a standard policy. Police said they did not have discretion in arrests, according to the President of the Sheriff’s union.

The Promise [Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support, and Education] program kept Nikolas Cruz from getting arrested. Not having a record allowed him to buy guns.

The program began in 2012 as a way of dealing with the district recording the highest number of school-related arrests statewide (over 1,000). Superintendent Runcie, with strong connections to Obama, was expected to stop the alleged school-to-prison pipeline.

The program was geared towards keeping minorities out of prison. The killer’s name was Cruz, making him a minority. An agreement was drawn up with police and community organizations like the NAACP which kept kids out of jail based on race but didn’t necessarily deal with the issues they had.

Principals, instead of school resource officers [sheriffs], became the primary decision makers in responding to student misbehavior.

Misdemeanors were supposed to be overlooked but records suggest more serious crimes were ignored to keep the money flowing. The district had to continually show improvement in statistics.

Obama's federal PROMISE program, adopted by Broward, shielded the troubled Nikolas Cruz from getting arrested even with some 47 L/E visits to his home.

Holding fast to Obama's PROMISE plan was the order of the day-----not protecting students.

PROMISE consisted of falsifying official govt records, lying, and bribery to steal huge amounts of federal money. Kickbacks all around kept the scheme going.

Why did Sheriff Israel's deputies hide while students and faculty were being slaughtered? Broward deputies were actually told NOT to go into the High School during the mass shooting. Holding fast to Obama's PROMISE plan was the order of the day-----not protecting students.

15 posted on 04/21/2021 2:59:41 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Mega-paid Supt Runcie (Obama's stupid pick)
did THE VERY LEAST he could do in the wake of the Broward massacres. He needs to be unceremoniously ousted.

Runcie looked mighty worried (below) when the Sun Sentinel caught up with him for the story of multiple
exiting school officials....all of them subjects of the murdered students parents' escalating anger.

Supt Runcie alerted School Board members of the departure of human resources' Nichols, head since 2015 who ignorantly
overruled the firing of a school security guard found sexually harassing students, including one of the murdered students.

Parents were outraged to learn that School Security Guard Medina was still employed by the school.

In fact, Medina was the first to see Cruz on school property carrying a rifle bag that infamous day BUT DID NOTHING ABOUT IT.

Runcie placed the blame solely on the exiting Nichols. “Mr. Nichols signed off on it,” Runcie said at the time.
“I was not aware of it until after it was brought up." That’s all the $400,000 Supt had to say.
NOTE: Harasser Medina and another security type whose performance on Feb. 14 was deemed ineffective were let go.
(SOURCE: Sun Sentinel report)

Runcie is a stupid excuse for a $400,000 Supt..... doesnt understand IT IS HIS JOB to know these things and TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

16 posted on 04/21/2021 3:01:55 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Yes, I moved there in 1956. You must have been born at Broward General.. Delivered by my late friend Dr. J.C. Gilbert?


17 posted on 04/21/2021 3:05:19 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie Arrested for Perjury During Questioning About “Promise Program”

April 21, 2021 | Sundance

This is actually one of those small stories with BIG, very big potential.   Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie was arrested this morning on a charge of perjury in an official proceeding. Broward School Board attorney Barbara Myrick was also arrested.

According to local news {LINK} Runcie gave testimony about how official school district programs were being implemented (aka “The Promise Program“) and whether any of the financial incentives were used by district officials for personal gain.

The details are vague as the media reporting on the arrest are slight; however, the backstory is something CTH has some strong information about due to our years of research into Miami-Dade and Broward County school systems – going all the way back to Trayvon Martin and the corrupt internal school administration practices we helped expose.   First, the current events:

FLORIDA – […] Runcie, 59, was taken into custody by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and has since been released from the Broward County Main Jail. According to his indictment, Runcie lied under oath between the dates of March 31 and April 1 while testifying under oath to a state grand jury.

The grand jury was investigating the following, according to the indictment:

How exactly the superintendent allegedly perjured himself during the investigation is not known at this time.

Myrick, meanwhile, was arrested on a charge of unlawful disclosure of statewide grand jury proceedings for the “knowingly and unlawfully public, broadcast, disclose or communicate to another person outside the statewide grand jury room any of the proceedings.” (read more)

The emphasis on the fourth bullet-point above is mine; because my hunch is THAT’S the key issue that Broward School Board administration can never let reach sunlight.  If people knew the details about how ‘diversionary programs‘ were used to keep school-aged youth out of the criminal justice system; those details could lead to a much larger national issue about the diversionary programs themselves.

Students engaged in very criminal behavior in both Miami-Dade and Broward County, were never held criminally accountable. Instead the “Promise Program”, and other programs of a similar nature,  used school discipline to replace the criminal justice system.  Students engaged in drug offenses, burglary and some other even more serious offenses were intentionally diverted away from the criminal justice system (police, courts etc.) and instead were suspended from school.

Perhaps the Florida grand jury is finally investigating the severity of corruption within these Florida diversionary programs (that are now national).  Here’s a background explanation as CTH shared in 2018 after the Parkland School shooting.


FEBRUARY 2018 – […]  Nothing about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was based on structural incompetence; the horrific event was an entirely predictable outcome of intentionally followed policy.

In April of 2012 Jesse Jackson began to promote the principle: “we must stop suspending our students”. Three months later, in July of 2012, President Obama signed an executive order establishing the basic outline of what later came to be known in Broward County as “The Promise Program“.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder created the financial carrots. In 2013 Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and a hired Chicago transplant, School Superintendent Robert Runcie, simply formalized and executed the policy.

2011 – Runcie has strong ties to Arne Duncan, the current U.S. Secretary of Education, who gave Runcie his start in the education sector.

Duncan, former Chicago schools chief tapped Runcie in 2003 to join his management team as chief information officer. Runcie was charged with bringing order to a technology department marred with delays in installing school computers funded through a federal grant. Duncan was listed as one of Runcie’s references in his application packet to the board.

Some are hopeful that Runcie’s connection to the Obama administration through Duncan will draw some benefits to the district and raise Broward’s profile in the national discourse on school reform.  Throughout his interviews, Runcie said he wants Broward to serve as a national model for what’s done right. (read more)

Sheriff Israel and Superintendent Ruchie’s implementation of the Broward Promise Program was easy; just stop arresting students and the statistics would be great.  As the statistics improve so too does the financial reward from federal grant monies.

While Sheriff Israel and Superintendent Runcie were garnering praise for the results of their program, Parkland school student Nikolas Cruz was a simultaneous benefactor as his anti-social and violent behaviors were being ignored.

This is a simple cause and effect.  There are no mistakes being made here.  This is entirely by design; as author Jack Cashill noted, this is not “incompetence“, it’s strategic. The fact that Nikolas Cruz was able to exit high school without a police record, then began amassing weapons, and eventually became a school shooter killing 17 students and staff; is an outcome of strategic policy, not incompetence.

While Nikolas Cruz was being ‘handled’ and not documented. The Sheriff’s police force was conducting diversity training seminars, de-escalation meetings, and sensitivity training exercises.  The last active shooter training was somewhere around 2006.  As a person within Broward law enforcement stated:

[beginning in 2013] “major change in policy & procedure as well as dismantling of proactive enforcement units in favor of community policing squads whose sole purpose is not enforcement. We paint houses, pick up trash, conduct summer camps for kids & giveaway presents on Christmas.”

For an example of Sheriff Scott Israel’s priorities SEE VIDEO HERE.

However, in the aftermath of the horrific shooting; and as people outside Broward County now begin to understand the dangerous political apparatus behind the policy; DO NOT expect to see any reform or change.

There is no actual mechanism to stop Broward county officials from carrying out their ideological objectives.  Social Justice has replaced Law Enforcement.  The sheriff is essentially untouchable until his next election – which he will likely again win easily; the School Superintendent is protected by the political apparatus willing to sacrifice a few dozen residents to retain the ideology; the school board and county officials are all part of the political apparatus; the mayors are appointed not elected; the district attorneys are all-in on the program; and the judges come from the ranks of the attorneys…. so, don’t expect changes.

Inside Broward County Florida schools blood can be washed away and carpets can be changed, but the political ideology and civic institutional goals are always protected.

If you think the federal government could step in to reduce the risk of violence, think again.  The U.S. federal Department of Justice has an entire suite of lawyers assembled just to protect these localized regions from intervention.  An activist Civil Rights Division is replete with social justice defenders, there will be no help from the DOJ.

The rapid response group within the federal government is the secretive Community Relations Service.  If you think the FISA abuse scandal revealed political ideology within the DOJ National Security Division, well, the DOJ-NSD pales in comparison to the DOJ-CRS.

It’s the DOJ Community Relations Service who activates and organizes the marches on behalf of the local officials.  The CRS is 100% full of social justice advocates who are trained specifically for the mission of protecting progressive community leaders from constituent backlash.   As CTH met with and researched the secretive CRS in 2012 and 2013 we affectionately named them the “tamp-down/ramp-up” federal group.

The CRS exists to ‘tamp-down’ any backlash to their ideological goals, and ‘ramp-up’ antagonism against political opposition or narratives adverse to their interests.


As I outlined in 2018: 

“Give it a few more days and everyone will move on.  This is not my cynicism, this is the reality of my having seen -first hand- the scale of the political machine that creates and defends outcomes like the Parkland School shooting.”  

Well, perhaps, just perhaps, this grand jury in Florida was looking into these issues and Robert Runcie is on the path to accountability….

We will keep watching!


Joe Biden, President Obama and Ed Secretary Arnie Duncan

~ These three, together with Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett created the racially explosive diversionary system called “My Brother’s Keeper”…


18 posted on 04/21/2021 3:12:28 PM PDT by Bratch
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Wow. I've seen and heard about plenty of people lying under oath in court but I've never seen anyone prosecuted for it.

I explain to my clients there is a real easy way to avoid this - tell the truth.

19 posted on 04/21/2021 3:14:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Sheriff Israel with Cong Debbie W Schultz......she is a Broward resident.

It is common for a Congressman to secure federal monies for their district.

<><> What part did D/W/S play in securing the $58 million bribes, er, I mean tax dollars Obama showered on Broward for keeping minorities off the arrest roles?

<><> The troubled Cruz was visited by Broward police some 47 times before the massacre.

<><> Where are the police reports of L/E's 47 visits?

<><>Did D/W/S have any nice things to say about Cruz BEFORE he massacred students and faculty?

<><> Did D/W/S have a hand in keeping Cruz off the arrest records so Broward could cash in?

<><> Can the imbecile Sheriff and the Congressional beast from Broward account for all of Obama's $58 million?

<><> The good-for-nothing Sheriff also had a $800M L/E budget. Can the bozo account for all that money??

20 posted on 04/21/2021 3:24:36 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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