$100K AARP Grant To McKinley Technology High School Goes Missing

The Washington Post:

D.C. school officials are trying to determine what became of a $100,000 award from AARP to McKinley Technology High School, intended to fund a community service program for students and senior citizens that never started.

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Comments

[medic628]

02:34 AM on 12/21/2010

I suppose that this was a teachers fault? We blame everything else on teachers.

[Venicelady]

06:46 PM on 12/19/2010

Sounds like some creative accounting went on here.

[no exit]

10:03 AM on 12/19/2010

Well, investigate the people who touched it, one of them took it. Solved.

[dadw5boys]

01:13 AM on 12/19/2010

Well they are using Faith Based Grant to fund Republican Campaigns .

Rev. Graham who took Palin to Haiti pays his self $570,000 a year and donate $1 Million + to Politicians from Faith Based Grants.

[schatsie]

03:34 PM on 12/19/2010

Faith based grants that are tax avoidance schemes....I wish we would do away with all charitable deductions....If it is important to you, then you do it anyway,,,otherwise I for one do not want to subsidize tax avoidance schemes for the Pampered and Privileged....

[Steve Rockett]

11:15 PM on 12/18/2010

Maybe they bought a few republican Congressional representatives.

[Steve Rockett]

11:10 PM on 12/18/2010

Sounds like embezzlement to me, or at best, damned poor accounting.

[schatsie]

03:35 PM on 12/19/2010

Ya mean Self Regulation doesn't work? Quiet We don't want to disturb Wall Street....

[Anne SD]

06:56 PM on 12/18/2010

Finally - something I can comment on. I am sure the grant money was put into the school's budget. The grant money was not spent and then DC's "central office" took it and put it into the big pot. The staff who wrote the grant merely moved on and perhaps no one had the time to implement the program.

[JV2010]

05:02 PM on 12/18/2010

Mystery?

IT WAS OBVIOUSLY STOLEN!

This country has gotten so corrupt that it's simply mind boggling.

School board members are getting kick backs from local businesses to exploit children as tools for use in fundraisers that net, on average, 3 dollars per student per year.

The system is totally out of control.

[schatsie]

03:37 PM on 12/19/2010

Well of course it is....Nobody wants to be audited or monitored, they are all so very capable of self regulation including the rich and their taxes......Read Free Lunch....We need Bill Black at Treasury, he personally put away about 1000 people for Savings and Loan Fraud.....

[libertylobo]

12:59 PM on 12/18/2010

Check the pockets of the teachers union....crooks.

[Steve Rockett]

11:11 PM on 12/18/2010

Nah, this sounds like the work of one bookkeeper or accountant.

[schatsie]

03:38 PM on 12/19/2010

or the Superintendent of schools or the Mayor.....

[GlennWatson]

12:47 PM on 12/18/2010

Someone was afraid the teacher might spend on students, it so they took it.

[supportamerica]

11:09 AM on 12/18/2010

Why am I not surprised. After all it is D.C. Where does any money go after it hits that town?

[Steve Rockett]

11:12 PM on 12/18/2010

Are you implying drugs?? In DC??

[awckid3]

10:14 AM on 12/18/2010

Missing=stolen

[Martha T]

09:17 PM on 12/17/2010

maybe someone should ask the educational reformer Michelle Rhee? As a seasoned veteran with great educational experience, maybe she can account for the missing money. LOL what a joke

[timbeaux]

07:40 PM on 12/18/2010

Maybe someone should ask the "seasoned educator" who swiped or diverted the money.

[Martha T]

09:14 PM on 12/18/2010

I wouldl love that oo but do you really think they are going to ask the daling of the faux reform movement to be accountable??? These kind of people are never accountable for their actions..and her's are shady at best