Posted on 01/25/2020 6:56:38 PM PST by karpov
The feds have started looking into allegations of widespread academic fraud in New York City schools, a Queens lawmaker says.
City Councilman Robert Holden met this month with officials in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York after his call for a federal probe of “deep-rooted fraud” in the city Department of Education.
Meanwhile, Holden and The Post received additional whistle blower-letters from anonymous “investigative staff” with the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools.
A similar letter sent last summer said SCI was sitting on cases alleging waste or misconduct by Mayor de Blasio, First Lady Chirlane McCray, Chancellor Richard Carranza and other “high-level executives,” to protect them. Special Commissioner Anastasia Coleman denied the accusation.
The new letter blasts Coleman for a “numbers game” — boosting stats with minor cases rather than focusing on more serious misconduct and systemic corruption, in an effort to make herself look good.
“I’m encouraged by my meeting with the US Attorney. His team is taking this seriously,” Holden told The Post.
FBI agents have already contacted several whistle-blowing teachers whose names he provided, Holden added.
A spokesman for US Attorney Richard Donoghue declined comment.
Holden sent a letter in November to Donoghue in Brooklyn and US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in Manhattan, saying “an apparent pattern of conspiracy to cover up” grade-fixing, cheating and other wrongdoing might warrant an investigation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which covers criminal enterprises.
In Atlanta, eight educators were convicted under a RICO statute of manipulating student test scores and sentenced to prison in 2015.
Holden turned over records compiled by former and current faculty members at Maspeth High School in Queens, where teachers say administrators encouraged cheating on exams, enforced a “no-fail policy,” and retaliated against staffers
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Diversity = letting in those who are unqualified and then using fraud and cheating to keep them there.
About 15 years overdue. All the schools manage to survive only as “Houses of Fraud”. The diplomas issued are about as meaningful as toilet paper and celebrations of “graduation” are celebrations of no accomplishment at all. Thanks Bloombutt and DumblASSio.
Have you attended a urban graduation ceremony recently? It is an unbelievable experience.
The FBI, investigating fraud! LOL, you can’t make this stuff up.
Oh well, maybe they’ll know it when they see it. They should! LOL
...an urban
The biggest news here is that it is being investigated at all.
So who on here thinks the Eff Bee Lie will find anything wrong?
Hmmmm ..... Wrong question; Let me ask it this way - How long has Trump been causing this? /sarc
So wait, there are Americans who actually believe those idiots can actually read?
Who is it that is this stupid???
To paraphrase the baseball scandal last century:
“Say it ain’t so, De Blasio”.
Now you have to be
1) Commie lover
2) a cheater
3) someone who can bring plenty of cash....
in order to be an academic success.
It used to be study hard and work 2 or 3 part time jobs. Times change.
Like robbers who are feeling pressure of white supremacist society causing them to steal to get money (couldn't stop themselves) these academic cheats feel the pressure to get ahead academically and others have to help them with fraud----all to cope with a Trump led Deplorable society. Pretty good?
Old fashioned way was: no one can force you to go into crime; you have to take responsibility for your own actions.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.
What’s a little more fraud?
How so?
Why dont they just mail a diploma to every non white 18 year old. Skip the formality of actually going to school
WAY overdue.
No wonder a good portion of our nation is failing due to the products of these failed schools. A rotten brain propagandized is the key to permanent control by the left.
WAY overdue.
Forty seven percent of the residents of Detroit cannot read or write, 43% in New Orleans.
Nearly Half Of Detroit’s Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds
"According to estimates by The National Institute for Literacy, roughly 47 percent of adults in Detroit, Michigan — 200,000 total — are “functionally illiterate,” meaning they have trouble with reading, speaking, writing and computational skills. Even more surprisingly, the Detroit Regional Workforce finds half of that illiterate population has obtained a high school degree. "
More like 30 years................
This has been the goal of the Dumbocrats for decades - those who can’t, need Democrat nanny state in perpetuity.
Seriously the FBI investigating anyone is a joke. Nobody should help these criminals in their efforts to frame whoever’s available people who work at the FBI at this point are part of the problem and members of criminal enterprise
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