Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Broward County Superintendent's Corrupt and Dangerous Agenda
American Thinker ^ | March 06, 2018 | M. Catharine Evans

Posted on 03/06/2018 1:58:45 AM PST by MilesVeritatis

There's little doubt Broward County Public Schools superintendent Robert Runcie's rabid implementation of his "no arrest" policy in 2011 helped Nikolas Cruz to stay "in the classroom and out of the courtroom," a phrase Runcie often repeated when touting his signature PROMISE program.

Runcie's plan served as an exemplary model for 50 participating school districts across the country, affecting 6.35 million children. In a July 2015 White House conference attended by Runcie and his former boss in Chicago, education secretary Arne Duncan, the superintendent received high praise for leading the nation in reducing student arrests.

But according to many outside reports, by 2015, the Obama-directed school discipline guidelines were creating chaos in the country's classrooms. After Oklahoma City instituted the new discipline policies, teachers referred violent students to the administration, only to have them returned to the classroom a short time later.

From the Oklahoman Editorial Board, November 2015:

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: broward; money; runcie; superintendent

1 posted on 03/06/2018 1:58:45 AM PST by MilesVeritatis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Lots of people with blood on their hands before the shooter even entered the school that day.


2 posted on 03/06/2018 2:04:03 AM PST by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Charge the jackass with 17 counts of manslaughter.


3 posted on 03/06/2018 2:07:34 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Keep reading the article until you get to the $800 MILLION in unaccounted for funding in Broward. Superintendent Runcie needs account for all of it.

Runcie’s brother also apparently had hasn’t accounted for improper payments in the BILLIONS at federal Department of Education.


4 posted on 03/06/2018 2:08:20 AM PST by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis
From @johncardillo https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/969278453638983680

Far left Broward Schools Supt. @RobertwRuncie is as complicit as Scott Israel.

Runcie has been sitting on an $800 million bond appropriation since 2014.

$9.7 million of which was to go to facilities upgrades at Stoneman Douglas, but still hasn’t been spent. #Parkland https://t.co/uAR14LLjU3— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 1, 2018


5 posted on 03/06/2018 2:25:20 AM PST by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis
You have to be a government entity to see such a solution as a "Good idea". Only fools and thieves would envision such a scheme to enrich themselves off of the inevitable collapse of mainstreaming thugs, mentally deranged, and violence prone young adults with the disarmed and unprepared public.

Like tossing water onto acid.

6 posted on 03/06/2018 2:37:42 AM PST by blackdog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Harvard alum with Obama’s Arne Duncan. Wanted national attention back when. A Rahm Emanuel pick in Chitcago. An info and admin guy, never a teacher or principle.

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2607

http://www.chicagoreporter.com/choosing-chicagos-next-schools-ceo-robert-runcie-timothy-knowles-john-white/

Interesting Broward piece from 2012: https://www.browardbeat.com/buddy-school-superintendent-robert-runcie-is-a-big-liar/


7 posted on 03/06/2018 2:41:56 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesteron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Runcie is an obama accolite plucked from Chicago and sent to Broward to implement social justice type education reform. He succeeded spectaculary, and 17 kids are dead.

Obama would give him a promotion and bonus, if that asshole was still in charge.


8 posted on 03/06/2018 3:20:33 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GnuThere

And the blood trail leads from Broward to Arne Duncan and straight on to 0bama and Holder. Which is why the Main Stream Media is starting to ignore the shooting. Now the agenda has turned on them it is down the memory hole.


9 posted on 03/06/2018 3:51:06 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Both the superintendent and the sheriff expect awards for their stellar service. From Obozo’s viewpoint, they achieved their mission. The same mindset reigns throughout Obozo’s holdover federal government.


10 posted on 03/06/2018 4:30:29 AM PST by iontheball (lLL)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis
Supt Runcie has been sitting on an $800 million bond appropriation since 2014. $9.7 million was for facilities upgrades at Stoneman Douglas, but still hasn’t been spent. The money hasnt been spent b/c it's stashed in an offshore bank somewhere in the Caribbean. Makes you wonder what percentage his Chicago buddy was instructed to set aside for Obama. Oh, and this will strike fear in the hearts of these thieving connivers-----"asset forfeiture."
11 posted on 03/06/2018 4:49:51 AM PST by Liz ((Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

Runcie is a scumbag. People like him, not the NRA, are the reason these school shooting are occurring. JMO.


12 posted on 03/06/2018 4:52:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis
Democrats are quite literally responsible for the loss of life. Because they claim to be wiser than Solomon in imposing a policy of sparing the rod and hating our children.

Republicans, at least certain of them including Trump, are just clearly responsible for the loss of liberty. Because for hollow and falsely perceived political gain they are colluding with the devils against our Freedom.

13 posted on 03/06/2018 5:12:44 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MilesVeritatis

I’m sure Magoo will get to the bottom of things re: FBI and their investigation into the Broward-side of the massacre....SOON.

Yep, soon. *taps watch*. ANY day now...

Congress? Devos? ANYONE in D.C.??

Guess FL is no better, IIRC, Bondi having signed-off on the ‘Promise Act’ as well. Way to go, Scott, fox + henhouse *SMH*


14 posted on 03/06/2018 5:12:50 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GnuThere
Lots of people with blood on their hands before the shooter even entered the school that day.

Here's two now-a-day gropers that both played a major part in setting up every school shooting since 1990.

Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Introduced in the Senate as S.3266 by Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) on October 27, 1990. Signed into law on November 29, 1990 by George H.W. Bush.

Neither one is fit to serve themselves to our Country and Freedoms ever again.

15 posted on 03/06/2018 5:15:45 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: i_robot73
"I’m sure Magoo..."

Immaturity and sarcasm aside, Jeff Sessions has already quietly been much, MUCH more directly helpful on this front than his often unhelpful and outright traitorous (on this topic) boss, Trump.

DOJeff's list of accomplishments in this regard is long. Such as undoing the racist policies of Obama/Holder/Lynch . Including one policy from those evils which effectively, though illegally, modified the Civil Rights act (Title VI) to implement the 'disparate impact' bullschiff via both prosecutorial sticks and taxpayer-money carrots to make schools/local cops to become more like Broward's Cowards.

Give Trump credit for appointing the most productive AG in our lifetime. But Trump himself was little better that Scot Peterson the way he was behaving on national TV the other day 'staging' and colluding with DiFi, AmyK and many other enemies of Freedom and common sense.

16 posted on 03/06/2018 6:52:40 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: BuddhaBrown

>
Immaturity and sarcasm aside, Jeff Sessions has already quietly been much, MUCH more directly helpful on this front than his often unhelpful and outright traitorous (on this topic) boss, Trump.

DOJeff’s list of accomplishments in this regard is long. Such as undoing the racist policies of Obama/Holder/Lynch . Including one policy from those evils which effectively, though illegally, modified the Civil Rights act (Title VI) to implement the ‘disparate impact’ bullschiff via both prosecutorial sticks and taxpayer-money carrots to make schools/local cops to become more like Broward’s Cowards.
>

Other than the Fl. SHOOTING bringing the Act to the forefront, I’m willing to read any/all sources you can provide.

As for ‘rolling back policies’, like Trumps actions of the same, accomplish exactly ZERO. Unless the agency/dept’s ABILITY is voided, those policies will be re-enacted.

Putting those that break the LAW under the microscope (I have no delusions that any of ‘em would be JAILED, let alone hauled in front of a jury/judge) is the *only* CORRECT path...and dear old Sessions ain’t doing SQUAT.

So, unless there’s other, tangible proof, he’s as useless as teets on a bull.


17 posted on 03/06/2018 7:59:28 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: i_robot73
"...useless as teets on a bull."

That's a decent though misspelled description of what I increasingly see dangling here at FR.

DOJeff on the other hand is doing actual work and, regarding links, I'm going to be more like him and less like Holder to assume it is your own local ability and responsibility to employ your choice of Google / Bing / DuckDuck to help yourself up by the bootstraps.

But for starters, specifically relevant to what we are talking about here, AGJeff issued a memorandum prohibiting his Dept from "...issuing guidance documents that have the effect of adopting new regulatory requirements or amending the law."

Look for references to the AG's Regulatory Reform Task Force to understand how that is one of the processes being used to prevent nonsense like the twisted "disparate impact" BS employed by the Obamanation to create law out of thin air under rules which really only allow the dispensing of advice.

As an exercise of mental muscle much neglected on this site of late, I am leaving it up to you to find the links from whatever sources you tend to trust which detail such things as:

-The prosecution of literally thousands of previously excused if not outright protected MS-13 and other gang members. Both here and in the incubator nations of Central America. Much of it being done to satisfy Trump's EO on "Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking".

-Aggressively, rightfully and finally (and probably soon successfully) taking the correct side in the Janus v. AFSCME case. The federal level analogy to what my awesome Gov Walker did here in WI to help financially de-fang the public union enemy while protecting worker freedoms.

-Settled the neglected till (purposely) nearly forgotten cases brought by literally hundreds of TEA party type outfits, stating: "...without question our First Amendment prohibits the federal government from treating taxpayers differently based solely on their viewpoint or ideology. There’s no excuse for this conduct.... this abuse of power will not be tolerated."

-The announced commencement of Civil Rights investigations against colleges/Universities (including the much ballyhooed Haaarvard) which discriminate against Asians and Whites for admissions.

-Taking the side of free speech against the asinine policy of 'safe zones' on campus. -Putting an end last summer to the HolderBama horrendous practice of funding evil liberal third parties as beneficiaries to unrelated lawsuits. As DOJeff stated: "Nowhere does the Constitution grant unelected attorneys or political appointees the power to effectively appropriate and distribute funds based on their political alliances." -A welcomed return to protecting religious liberty including reversing positions argued in federal court and even the SC including arguing in favor of the bakers as opposed to the prior admin's preference for the candle stick takers. And this was not limited to DOJ-specific dept policy. The AG sent instructions to ALL executive branches ordering them to: "...vigorously enforce Federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom." and then proceeded to settle many lawsuits in favor of Catholic/other colleges/hospitals, charities and such.

-Denying new grants to Sanctimonious Cities as well as doing the ground work to define and eventually prosecute the crimes of those in collusion with that city and/or state-level enemy.

-Doing the Lord's work and fulfilling Trump's number one campaign promise by admirably and successfully waging the legal battles in support of travel bans, refuges, walls and such.

-Last fall ending the terribly unconstitutional practice of the terrible prior admin and instead finally doing the DOJ's job in recognizing Congress's sole authority under Art 2, Section 9 to appropriate and dispense funds. Thus ending the cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurance companies which were not part of any law.

-Ending the prior admin's policy of favoring preferred races and imagined genders when deciding who/what should be held accountable under the law.

-Ending or re-evaluating many various "consent decrees" issued by the evil prior admin against local LEO's simply because they arrested folks of color disproportionate to their population numbers despite committing crimes vastly disproportionate to their population numbers. Taking a refreshingly correct fed level position that: "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."

Even successful doing things which I personally don't approve of as a believer in a Free Republic, but which are technically Jeff's job until Congress rights their own dang wrongs in this respect. Meaning a surge in the opioid/etc drug wars, undoing Obama's ban on sharing military type equipment with local LEOs somewhat financed with asset forfeitures and such. Again, these few things I hate but which technically are still part of his job.

Despite the presidential knives in his back, Session is by far the one appointee most responsible for enacting the Trump policies and agenda he ran on - which, of course, Jeff was instrumental in forming during the campaign.

The man who much lesser men demean in an incredibly ignorant fashion as some sort of unqualified and sleepy swamp creature is absolutely nothing of the sort. For God's sake, he was Trump's first and most loyal DC supporter, a long term honest and very conservative Senator from a very conservative state, a highly active and knowledge-driven member of the Senate Judiciary committee, a US Attorney and, yes, even prior experience as an AG! Few if any could be considered a more qualified Attorney General choice.

It is certainly valid to question the decision to recuse and to be naturally impatient with the slow moving and once again rightly more secret wheels of the more political aspects of Justice. But it is embarrassingly wrong of folks to characterize Sessions as being in any way unqualified or unproductive. Quite the opposite is the truth!

18 posted on 03/06/2018 10:19:09 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson