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Friday, November 14, 2008

Great Moments in Education

Two stories from the education file:
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.

Somebody needs to go to jail for this stuff.

And, from Don Surber:
Question: I am an elementary schoolteacher in need of a Mexican vacation. How can I get there from here?

Answer: Apply for a federal grant. The McNary Heights Elementary School reading coach and 17 other teachers from her district in Eastern Oregon got $24,000 to visit Mexico under the guise of learning how to teach the children of immigrants.

Pay it back.

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