Students are the victims of the bribery and money laundering

DISD is the poster child for school choice:
Students are the victims of the bribery and money laundering in DISD

The Dallas school district must pay $750,000 and drop more than $150 million in requests for federal technology funds to settle claims that district officials abused a program aimed at providing technology for needy schools and libraries.

The settlement is the final chapter of a scandal involving the district's former technology chief, Ruben Bohuchot, who was sentenced last year to 11 years in prison for a bribery and money-laundering scheme involving computer contracts paid for by the program.
Since 2005, Dallas schools have been frozen out of participating in the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program during the lengthy investigation.

http://ednews.org/articles/dallas-isd-to-pay-750k-drop-tech-funding-requests.html

Before any of this was made public, I had met with citizens who were aware of the computer fraud taking place at DISD. There were some very astute taxpayers who knew what was going on at DISD and blew the whistle. Good for them!

Here’s the rub, though. While the educrats were feathering their own nests, and one got caught and will be feathering his prison cell for 11 years, the students are the ones who were – and are – paying for it. The students are the ultimate victims of a system with few checks and balances, and which often puts the interests of educrats before those of the students.

Isn’t it time we provide some competition? Isn’t it time we allow parents the opportunity to take the education dollars which are allocated for their child and take them to the school where their child has the greatest opportunity to learn and to succeed?

DISD is the poster child for school choice.

-- Peggy Venable, Americans for Prosperity-Texas; pvenable@afptx.ort