Reply #5: Wow, we should close public schools!!!

[sandnsea]

Based on your criteria for accountability. This was just a quick look on 2 pages of google.

The audit concluded that the district’s former business manager, Kathy Borrego, embezzled $3,378,701.27 from the district’s bank accounts from January 8, 2002 through June 4, 2009, according to a news release today from State Auditor Hector Balderas.
http://newmexicoindependent.com/34069/special-audit-reveals-3-3-million-embezzled-from-small-n-m-school-district

Douglas Benit, who was an assistant superintendent in Ecorse until 2003, has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for persuading the district to award contracts to his company. Benit concealed his affiliation with Coral Technology while getting more than $2 million in school contracts.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/03/former_willow_run_superintende_1.html

Former Delaware Valley Regional superintendent to be sentenced for embezzlement
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/former_delaware_valley_regiona.html

• In Michigan, Superintendents or Board members stole over $8 million, in five districts.
• In Arkansas, over 7 years, a secretary/data analyst stole $884,000.
• In New York, $11 million was embezzled by Superintendents in 2 school districts
• In Colorado, a Superintendent and CFO took $2.25 million
• In Missouri, a gambling-addicted Superintendent helped himself to $850,000
• In North Carolina, 2 school districts were raided for $2.2 million
• In Illinois, $1.5 was misappropriated
• In Utah, a part-time secretary and a contract pilfered $5 million
http://www.ncrp.org/blog/2009_02_01_blogarchive.html