New York City just approved the ssle of $23 million in bonds for a charter run by a politically powerful Bronx family.
The story begins thus:
“The city approved a politically connected charter school — whose founder went to prison and principal was once accused of fixing grades — to issue up to $23 million in tax-exempt bonds to relocate to a former Bronx strip club.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And the insanity continues. . .Politically powerful explains it all. Sigh.
“Funds will be used for demolition, construction and purchase of equipment for the building.”
Supposedly.
Next to the story about the charter was this one. http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/hs_sex_teach_orifice_hours_DL0DhbEIjCF3SragN801HN
Queens teacher had sex with students at school
By SUSAN EDELMAN
Last Updated: 10:00 AM, April 14, 2013
SHE’S GOT PROBLEMS: Disgraced ex-teacher Tara Driscoll, 35, faces new trouble after already pleading guilty to sex with a teen in 2011.
A Queens teacher who was arrested and fired for taking a 16-year-old student to a hot-sheets motel for a videotaped romp also violated two other boys — inside her school, says a shocking investigative report obtained by The Post.
Tara Driscoll, 35, a former English teacher at Law, Government and Community Service HS in Cambria Heights, pleaded guilty last June to having sex with the minor at the Capri Lynbrook Motor Inn, a 15-minute drive from the school.
But earlier, she brazenly had sex with two other students at the school, where her serial shenanigans were uncovered by girlfriends of the teacher’s pets, the report by schools investigator Richard Condon charges.
The report alleges that after sending flirtatious text messages to one boy, Driscoll called him to her office in October 2010. Upon entering, they began kissing.
She locked the door and put a chair against the knob to secure it. They lay on the floor behind her desk, where she performed oral sex before they had intercourse, the boy told investigators.
Another boy who visited her school office in December 2010 told probers she locked the door and performed oral sex on him.
In March 2011, a girlfriend of a third boy discovered his phone had sexually explicit texts from Driscoll.
“I will f–k you hard like a teacher,” one allegedly read.
She and other girls angrily confronted the teacher.
“I did not mean to, I am lonely, and f–ked up . . . You can beat me up right now,” Driscoll bawled, one girl told investigators. She cried she “needed someone to love,” and “My mom is dying” of cancer.
She also offered hush money.
“I can give you $300 right now . . . I will give you my paycheck for it to go away,” a student quoted her as begging.
The girls took no money and “left the room disgusted,” the report says. They didn’t tell officials because Driscoll — who made $56,700 a year — vowed not to do it again.
It’s unclear if the alleged confrontation and confession occurred before or after March 19, 2011, when Driscoll drove the 16-year-old to the motel.
He recalled watching the NCAA basketball tournament in the room, where she videotaped their sex acts before driving him home. She later bought him a $300 pair of Nike Pewter sneakers because “she was worried about getting in trouble,” the report says.
In May, an employee at another school heard about Driscoll’s misconduct from another girl and alerted authorities.
Initially charged with rape, Driscoll copped to a misdemeanor sex-misconduct charge under a Nassau County plea deal last year and was put on probation for six years.
The probation report noted “a severe problem with alcohol.” Her teacher’s license was yanked. She had to register as a Level 1 sex offender and move from her Bay Shore home because it was close to a school.
Condon referred the case to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Driscoll could not be reached for comment.
And read this Joe about Mr. Rhee…be an equal opportunity poster of sexual offenders.
Click to access Phoenix_Police.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf
You are desperately trying to defend the charter privatization movement. Here is the leader of Students First and an example of her outrage at the molestation of teen females:
When informed that her now fiance Kevin Johnson had been accused of inappropriate sexual conduct, Rhee promised to make it “her number one priority” and to “take care of the situation”. She then met with a federal inspector general, calling Johnson “a good guy”.
A disagreement between Republican legislators and President Obama over the firing of a federal inspector general has ensnared DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. According to a report issued by Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa, Rhee conducted “damage control” concerning charges that her now fiance Kevin Johnson had engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with AmeriCorps volunteers. In addition, when Rhee learned of one allegation, she said she would make it her number one priority and take care of the situation.
The volunteers’ charges were included in a criminal referral by Corporation for National & Community Service IG Gerald Walpin, but ultimately dropped as part of a deal between Johnson and the United States Attorney. Walpin was subsequently fired by Obama, an act that Republicans have charged was a political favor to Johnson.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/rhee-walpin
Wow. High standards in NYC. Who in their right mind would send their child to this school and what city in their right mind would allow the school to open?? Aim high New York.
District 7 is located in the South Bronx, the neighborhood that redefined the depths of extreme multi-generational poverty. The working conditions at its elementary and middle schools are terrible. In an average year, maybe 25% of the kids who exit its K-8 schools know how to read; it’s not uncommon for the district, which has about 20,000 students, to not have a single student qualify for the top selective high schools.
The bar is set pretty low here. Any school that’s reasonably safe and sets expectations with regard to student behavior is going to be an attractive option for many families. It’s insulting and wildly out of touch to refer to such parents as being not in their right mind.
Is only the school paying for those bonds? Are they legal? If they default who is then responsible? Looks like you have major corruption there as we all do. Did you know that Beverly Hills has one of the most open governments in the U.S.? Can you believe that? Contact mayor John Mirish to find out about their open government standards. No lobbying for 30 months. During a city council meeting you do not have to go you can call in just like you were personally there. All finances are open for inspection. All income and expenditures are open for the public and on line. City Council meetings are televised and put on line and available 24/7/365. I told Mayor Mirish “I thought I was in another country when I heard all of your city council talk about this at the latest inauguration at which we were present in support of no tunneling under the Beverly Hills High School which is in an oil field with major amounts of methane and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). More public institutions should be run like Beverly Hills. By the way they have a surplus as a result of proper fiscal management. How about more doing this?
The standards they create for themselves are not the standards they impose on everybody else. I wonder how many residents of Beverly Hills are profiting from private charters and data mining?
Do you have an opinion about the LA mayoral race? Garcetti or Greuel?
I am waiting to see which candidate supports public education.