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Broken Promises
Tax-exempt deals that provided $7 billion in bonds for low-income housing or inner-city schools turned out to be another way for banks and advisers to make money. Bloomberg investigates situations such as a deal in which JPMorgan Chase and Co. and American International Group "pocketed fees, along with their advisers, totaling $12 million." AIG and CDR of Beverly Hills actually had a deal "in which the financial firms made more money and faced less risk if none of the $220 million in bond funds was used by the public. None of it was." There were 70 other such deals across the country in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. The investigation also includes similar situations of schools being neglected while insurance companies, banks and advisers profit.
Tags: school bonds; Wall Street; JPMorgan Chase and Co.; American International Group; Bank of America; housing bonds
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Left Behind, The Failure of East St. Louis Schools
KMOV-TV looks into the state of the public schools in the East St. Louis area, finding that they are not providing an education that meets state and federal standards. Among the issues are: a shortage of special-education teachers, a lack of at-home teachers, the fact East St. Louis is one of five public school districts (of 900 total in the state) that are on state academic probation, friends and relatives being hired for security, secretarial and custodial jobs and a high number of managers without teacher certifications, administrators taking expensive trips for seminars on taxpayer dollars.
Tags: District 189; East St. Louis; Missouri public schools; state academic probation; nepotism; misuse of taxpayer funds
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Gateway Guide to Missouri Public Schools
A compilation of school performance in Missouri. Each school's racial makeup, 2000-2001 figures, analysis of test scores, and state rank is listed. The purpose of the guide is to make it easier for parents to choose a school based on performance or to know how well or poorly their child's school is doing.
Tags: education; standardized testing; schools; public schools; school choice; elementary; high school; middle school
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Series: Police keeping cash intended for education
The Kansas City Star reports " Police and federal agencies have diverted millions of dollars from Missouri schoolchildren. Under state law, money seized in drug cases is supposed to go to public school districts, but ... (often) when police discover a cache of drug money, they turn it over to a federal agency, which is not subject to state laws. The agency keeps a cut and returns the rest of the money to police."
Tags: Missouri police; money; funding; drug seizes forfeiture laws conflict of interest
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Police keeping cash intended for education
Under Missouri state law, money seized in drug cases is supposed to go to public school districts. But some police and federal agencies have diverted millions of dollars from Missouri schoolchildren. When police discover a cache of drug money, they turn it over to a federal agency, which is not subject to state laws. The agency keeps a cut and returns the rest of the money to police. Police say that the windfall is used to fight the war on drugs. But such transfers to federal agencies hurt taxpayers, who must pay more for schools.
Tags: Forfeiture; Schools; Drugs
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This Prime Time Live two-part investigation examined public school education primarily from the perspective of teachers and students. Part 1 documented problems of wasteful spending and red tape in school districts across the United States, including districts in California, New York, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Washington D.C., Michigan. (May 3, 1995)
Tags: Sawyer Neufer CAR Reading; writing and rip-off Contest entry Principal Superintendent Money Teachers Janitors 16 pgs.