I have a request for the Nassau County district attorney: Don't, don't plea bargain with the former school business official from Roslyn or, if indicted, the superintendent of schools, who recently resigned.
The dysfunction in the city's school system extended well beyond the classroom: a revolving door for superintendents, whose average tenure lasted no more than a year; school officials indicted for bribery and theft; unexplained budget deficits; decaying buildings; almost three-quarters of the city's schools slapped with an "academically unacceptable" rating from the state.
A federal grand jury indicted two former high school football coaches from Memphis yesterday in a recruiting scandal involving the former Alabama lineman Albert Means, who was cleared yesterday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to play for the University of Memphis.
In the latest of a series of allegations about improprieties at the school for troubled children, William Henderson, 30, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., who had worked as a crisis counselor at the school, was indicted on charges of third-degree rape after a 14-year-old student reported that she had sex with him in September 2000.
Walter Anderson, 51 Washington, D.C. telecom entrepreneur (shown in high school photo) indicted in February for using offshore entities to evade $200 million in tax.
Washington, D.C. telecom entrepreneur (shown in high school photo) indicted in February for using offshore entities to evade $200 million in tax.
It also indicted Jennifer Wiley Thompson, an elementary-school teacher who used to work as a tutor in the UNC athletics department, for allegedly using Mr Watson's money to pay for the on-campus parking tickets of Greg Little, a wide receiver.The UNC case is highly unusual, and is not necessarily a harbinger of widespread government interest in policing amateurism.
Two of Means's high school coaches were indicted last week on charges of trying to sell him to seven schools.
Mr. Bernardo was not charged in the ballot-fraud case, but one official who was indicted is from the same school.
CHICAGO -- The former head of the nation's third-largest school district was indicted on federal fraud charges Thursday that accuse her of taking bribes and kickbacks for steering more than $23 million in no-bid contracts to a former employer.
