Posted on 11/14/2008 6:26:24 AM PST by stevie_d_64
Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly.
Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state's educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires, most of whom were brought in to teach bilingual classes.
The practice was described in an internal report issued in September by the district's investigative office, which looked into the matter after receiving a tip. The report said the Texas Education Agency learned of the fake numbers in 2004 and told DISD then that the practice "was illegal."
It's unclear how long DISD had been issuing the phony numbers, and district officials didn't know Thursday how many had been given out. But the investigative report and interviews with DISD employees indicate the practice went on for several years before it was discontinued this past summer.
DISD human resources chief Kim Olson, who came to the district in 2007, said that she learned about the false numbers this past summer around the time the district's investigative unit was looking into them and that she put a stop to the practice.
"There's no way we should be doing that kind of stuff," Ms. Olson said. "Even if your intention is good to help employees get paid, you can't use inappropriate procedures to do that."
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Who is a legal citizen and who is an illegal border jumper? Who can tell anymore? More blurring of the laws of the land through nefarious means by a host of pro-amnesty government entities and private enterprises to get to an end state- We, the people be damned.
Our educators at work, knowingly violating federal immigration law.
Ping a ling
Simple solution, give them all Hawaiian birth certificates and let them apply for their own back-dated draft card and SSAN.
The foxes are guarding the hen house. I believe the majority of the DISD population is Hispanic.
BTT
I am beginning to believe that the DISD is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a school district. How else can you explain that it stays in business while producing such a rotten product?
They laid off a lot of black teachers and people who had gone through the alternative licensing process.
>How else can you explain that it stays in business while producing such a rotten product?
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ACORN, Congress... similar examples abound.
This is just one small tip of the corrurption iceburg in Dallas.
Ah yes, the ol' extortion of the taxpayer trick. In truth this is just a small part of Dallas' problems. They are so torn by identity politics the whole city government is dysfunctional.
Yikes.
Since I am the education reporter at another Texas paper, I will have to check that out for here.....how outrageous.
I am already doing a story about the district I cover taking years to fire a man who was an art teacher at the youth center (correctional facility). He was drawing pictures of students and some naked drawings of fantasy art-type things like mermaids. He also violated policy by taking girls out of their cells to work with them individually, mailing letters for them etc.
But, instead of being fired, they moved him to another school. His insubordination continued, yet he wasn’t fired until this year after they found more of the same fantasy drawings.
This is after in the late ‘90s he got in trouble for writing letters to a girl of a semi-romantic nature (she didn’t like it and reported it) and was forced to resign from that different school district.
While it could be worse....nobody is alleging the guy had a sexual relationship with students etc....he crossed the line way too often and was just shuffled around instead of fired.
Just ridiculous.
It would be interesting as to what you’ll find out regarding your area. I suspect the info regarding how to make the offenses less noticeable are fairly well known thoughout the state ISDs. Not saying they are all hiding stuff but it would be an interesting investigation and if clean a feather in the cap of the ISD. Good luck.....
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If you aid and abet a criminal, you're a criminal.
Former Dallas ISD official Ruben “Rock Star” Bohuchot was sentenced to 11 years for bribery schemes.
If I was a parent, or even a fellow teacher, I'd have Lawyers suing YESTERDAY for mental duress until every teacher is certified to being who they claim to be. And DISEASE FREE!This past Sept our youngest daughter, who graduated last May with her B.S.Ed, started working as a Teacher Aide (step one to Full Time Teacher) in our School District. Before she could start, she had to get FINGER PRINTED and an FBI background check performed based on her prints. She also had to get tested for TB and results submitted, not to mention show her State Teaching Certificate annnnnd all the Certification Tests that are required.
How any of this could fly with a phony SS number is beyond me. For all the Dallas schools know, they could have a Pedophile or Serial Killer working with the kids.
Search works just fine. How do you think I found your dupe?
Improper and unnecessary.
There may well be legitimate reasons why an identifying number needs to be given to foreign nationals or others without SSN’s.
For those kinds of situations, its easy enough to create a pseudo SSN by using 9 digit numbers starting with an 8 or a 9.
No excuse for this behavior which is tantamount to identity theft.
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