Litigation

Steal public funds, get a new gig paid for with public funds?

By Tracy Coenen

I realize that everyone has to make a living somehow. But I’m sorry…. you steal taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to educate children, and you shouldn’t be allowed to get paid with taxpayer money for… educating children.

Rosella Tucker was charged last month with embezzling over $300,000 from a Milwaukee Public Schools charter school, New Hope Institute of Science and Technology. And now she’s running Sherbro Educational Services LLC… which tutors children under the No Child Left Behind Law. She’s got 27 kids at $1,795 a pop… for a total of over $48,000 of federal money. Not a bad gig, if you can get it.

The tutoring company is one of about 25 that are listed on the MPS website…. advertised to parents as tutoring options. You get on the list by applying with the Departement of Public Instruction, which Tucker did in June. (more…)

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Full post as published by The FRAUDfiles Blog on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).