Following my thoughts yesterday about the seemingly insoluble illegal alien problem, a report from California illustrated yet another aspect of the issue - namely, deep-rooted corruption and abuse of taxpayer funds.
The entire school board for a Sacramento school that teaches English to adult migrants resigned after a state audit revealed mismanagement, fraud, and illegal use of education funding.
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The auditor’s report alleged that the school board engaged in nepotism in hiring Cameron’s daughter, inflated the number of students to get more funding, purposefully avoided providing financial transparency reports to the state, spent money on repair bills for cars owned by board members, paid for luxury items such as food and travel, approved consulting contracts to friends and family members, modified test results, and committed a slew of other violations.
Some of the fraud concerned admissions to the school. The state charter only allows the school to admit migrants aged 22 and up and who don’t already have high school diplomas. However, the audit found that it was admitting students younger than the target age and also students who already had high school diplomas.
State officials allege these violations occurred to grow the school’s attendance numbers to boost the school’s state funding which was based on average daily attendance and the total number of students enrolled...
There's more at the link.
Understandably, some want to recover all the misused funds from the school. Needless to say, pro-immigration activists disagree:
Some state officials are demanding that the school repay the $180 million in misused funding, but local activists say that forcing repayment would cause the school to shut down, leaving the hundreds of migrants currently enrolled and many thousands of future enrollees without a means to learn English in the area.
As far as I'm concerned, go ahead and shut it down! If the school's primary reason for existence was to soak up taxpayer money for the benefit of its limited and privileged constituency, there's no reason whatsoever why that malpractice should continue. Why reward malfeasance by making it possible for it to continue?
Like so many issues, the presence of illegal aliens has been used as a pretext to divert literally billions of dollars of taxpayer money to non-governmental organizations and activists who've grown fat on it. They do little or nothing for the people they're supposed to help, instead using the funds to perpetuate well-paid jobs for themselves and build a structure that effectively makes their clients dependent upon them, rather than helping them become independent.
I hope those responsible for this mess in San Francisco go to jail for their crimes.
Peter
5 comments:
So! Activists need 180 million to continue the grift? Guess they will really have to hustle to get corporate sponsors and such. Inquiring minds want to know, who is going to prison for submitting false reports covering up malfeasance?
Those "responsible for this mess in San Francisco likely have strong ties to city and county government officials and administrators--if they themselves aren't said officials themselves.
Some of those responsible parties are just corrupt and/or bien pensant fools. Others are dedicated revolutionaries who understand that massively looting the system will result in its destruction (plus it's nice having the loot.) The revolutionary industrial complex knows just what they want to replace it with.
Meanwhile, since their goals are do destroy social institutions and norms that impede the revolution, revolutionaries now in positions of power tend to view all manner of crimes (except those committed by counterrevolutionaries) as functionally being revolutionary acts. They may prosecute them to please a backer, or in an internal power struggle on the Left, or for propaganda value, but otherwise, if it tears down the society the revolutionaries want to destroy, it's all good.
And yet again we find massive fraud in California... I'm seeing a pattern here.
Jonathan
People don't start and run an organization this large without prior knowledge. Do people actually get taught or advised on how to do this in Ca. And explain Exactly how Gavin, slick hair, Newsom doesn't know and arrest them all?
Oy... put their asses UNDER the jail, and recover the money. That school doesn't need to exist!
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