Kevin Ohlandt reports that the former principal of the Academy of Dover (Delaware) pled guilty to stealing from the school, using several of its credit cards for personal expenses. “He spent the money on electronics, travel, car expenses, gardening and camping equipment, home improvement items and a dog house.”
Ohlandt writes:
“Rodriguez got a $250,000 fine and will assuredly be facing jail time at his sentencing, up to ten years. What I would like to know is if part of that $250,000 fine goes back to Academy of Dover. I think it should. Taxpayers were robbed by Rodriguez, they deserve to have their tax money go back to what it was allocated for.”
The State Auditor was surprised that the school received no oversight. Not from its private board of directors. Not from its auditors. Not from the state Department of Education. Not from the Charter School Accountability Committee.
It is taxpayer money, and no one is minding the cash register or the books. That is an invitation to theft.
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He stole $145,000 and got a fine of $250,000 (which is how it should be). But most of these charter scammers steal millions and, if they even get fined at all, end up paying pennies on the dollar of what they stole. Rodriguez is just a piker who can be taught a lesson, not a big time maker who is too big to fail. Either that or he ticked off the wrong person.
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Both!
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SICK! Well, NO OVERSIGHT makes for dirty players. And the charters and vouchers are dirty games with dirty players. Feel sorry for the students and their parents who bought into this horror.
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Sounds to me like he ended up in that doghouse. I think we need a bigger doghouse.
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