According to The Notebook, a number of former employees claim that K12, Inc, a for-profit education company, used dubious and sometimes fraudulent tactics to mask astronomical rates of student turnover in its national network of cyber charter schools.
Continue reading...The Los Angeles Times reports that William Agopian, the former finance chief for the Lynwood Unified School District, has been convicted of taking more than $700,000 in public funds to fund a lavish life style of high-end restaurants, expensive hotels and sports tickets, and has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Continue reading...According to The Oregonian, Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools across small-town Oregon from their headquarters in Clackamas, have scammed the state out of $17 million and must repay that plus $2.7 million more, the state said in a recent court filing.
Continue reading...Thomson Reuters News & Insight reports that the federal government has joined a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing the New York City Department of Education of billing Medicaid for psychological counseling services it falsely claimed to have provided to students with special needs.
Continue reading...San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has filed suit in state court against a parent, who is an attorney, to recover almost $300,000 in payments made for special education services for the parent’s disabled child, says Courthouse News Service. The suit accuses Jonathan Dickstein and his wife, Barclay Lynn, of using a shell company called “Puzzle Pieces” to bill it improperly for the care and treatment of their autistic son.
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