Dallas schools to repay HIV education money in whistle-blower settlement

[CactusCarlos]

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Dallas schools to repay HIV education money in whistle-blower settlement
Posted by rainbow4321 on Fri Feb-22-08 09:09 PM

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-disdgrants_22met.ART.West.Edition1.4617e45.html

The Dallas Independent School District has settled an employee's whistle-blower lawsuit by agreeing to repay the federal government about $336,000 in grant money it received for HIV education programs.

The money, paid over three years, was to provide two full-time employees for the program. The district, however, assigned those employees other duties and charged the costs to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant, according to the original lawsuit.

The lawsuit has been under seal since it was filed in October 2006. The settlement was made public by a judge after all parties signed off on it this week.

The district has run afoul of grant-spending rules recently. Preliminary results from two independent audits under way indicate that the district may have misspent as much as $17.5 million in grant funds from the federal government's Title I and 21st Century after-school program.

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Way to go, DISD..as a TX healthcare professional who works w/ HIV patients, I'm thinking whoever had knowledge of this fraud needs to serve a few hundred hours doing volunteer work with people living with the virus...specifically, teenagers and 20-something year olds. How many lives could that $300,000 have saved if it actually went towards education and prevention????

How many lives could have been saved if people didn't practice unsafe sex?

[BEG]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

[CactusCarlos]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

[Lord Undies]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

Yeppers.  When we lived in Dallas we were fortunate to have a really good elementary school.  We moved out of Dallas the year my oldest son was to start Jr. high. 

DISD has been the pits since W.T. White retired and the "diversity" crowd took over. 

[Lord Undies]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

[BEG]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

Remember that credit card fraud a few years back?  And that one woman who had her apartment furnished on DISD's dime?  Then there was something about a yacht...and this is just the tip of the iceberg.....damn POS.

Thank God we don't live in Dallas ISD.

[CactusCarlos]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

I'm really sorry to hear that.  I've heard different stories from different people about the schools here.  I have a 15 year old myself. 

Meanwhile, up in McKinney, my troop that moved here last July has nothing but good things to say about the schools up there. 

[BEG]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

I'm really sorry to hear that.  I've heard different stories from different people about the schools here.  I have a 15 year old myself. 

Meanwhile, up in McKinney, my troop that moved here last July has nothing but good things to say about the schools up there. 

We have had good luck with Denton ISD.  My kids are/were all EXPO (gifted and talented) kids and have done really well in school.  I haven't had a problem with a teacher or the school district yet.

I worked for Grapevine/Colleyville ISD about 10 years ago in their purchasing department.  It pissed me off how they would always say, "we will lose the money if we don't spend it by the end of the semester".  They would buy crap they didn't need so they didn't "lose" it and let it go back into the "pot".  They would buy friggen $5 pens and crap.  It would infuriate me.

[Lord Undies]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

I'm really sorry to hear that.  I've heard different stories from different people about the schools here.  I have a 15 year old myself. 

Meanwhile, up in McKinney, my troop that moved here last July has nothing but good things to say about the schools up there. 

For example, My daughter and family moved from St. Louis last May.  They did a lot of research and decided to buy in Forney because of the schools.  They now live in Windmill Farms.

Windmill Farms has a nice new elementary school up the street and around the corner from my daughter's house.   UH-OH!  It's full up with transfer kids from old Forney across the highway.  My daughter's childen have to go to a school six miles away.  It's nuts!  

[BEG]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

I'm really sorry to hear that.  I've heard different stories from different people about the schools here.  I have a 15 year old myself. 

Meanwhile, up in McKinney, my troop that moved here last July has nothing but good things to say about the schools up there. 

For example, My daughter and family moved from St. Louis last May.  They did a lot of research and decided to buy in Forney because of the schools.  They now live in Windmill Farms.

Windmill Farms has a nice new elementary school up the street and around the corner from my daughter's house.   UH-OH!  It's full up with transfer kids from old Forney across the highway.  My daughter's childen have to go to a school six miles away.  It's nuts!  

Last year they were rezoning our schools and they were going to rezone just our neighborhood that is inside the larger neighborhood.  We can see the fricken school from the next street over (my middle school daughter walks to school, both the middle and elementary schools are right next to each other) and they were going to rezone us to a school where my younger daughter would have to take a bus.  We raised hell and they left our neighborhood as is.

[Lord Undies]

This isn't the only trouble DISD has been in.  It is a shit hole because of the administrators.

SO glad we decided to live in Kaufman County.  Not perfect, but not Dallas County either. 

My daughter is ready to go all Charles Whitman on the Forney schools.  It has not been a pleasant experience for her. 

I'm really sorry to hear that.  I've heard different stories from different people about the schools here.  I have a 15 year old myself. 

Meanwhile, up in McKinney, my troop that moved here last July has nothing but good things to say about the schools up there. 

For example, My daughter and family moved from St. Louis last May.  They did a lot of research and decided to buy in Forney because of the schools.  They now live in Windmill Farms.

Windmill Farms has a nice new elementary school up the street and around the corner from my daughter's house.   UH-OH!  It's full up with transfer kids from old Forney across the highway.  My daughter's childen have to go to a school six miles away.  It's nuts!  

Last year they were rezoning our schools and they were going to rezone just our neighborhood that is inside the larger neighborhood.  We can see the fricken school from the next street over (my middle school daughter walks to school, both the middle and elementary schools are right next to each other) and they were going to rezone us to a school where my younger daughter would have to take a bus.  We raised hell and they left our neighborhood as is.

Good for you!  I glad common sense won.

Apparently Forney has an open campus policy.  No boundaries or logic.  They take students at whatever school until it is filled. 

My daughter's kids have to take TWO buses to get to school.  They take one from home to some other school and transfer to another bus to get to their school.  My daughter takes them whenever posiible, but she goes to school too, so three morning a week they must ride the bus.  It is quite an ordeal.