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Former Ga. Schools Chief Gets 8 Years

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Former Ga. Schools Chief Gets 8 Years
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer
2 hours ago

ATLANTA - Former Georgia schools superintendent Linda Schrenko was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison and ordered to pay more than $414,000 in restitution for her role in an embezzlement scheme that helped pay for her face lift and campaign for governor.

Her sentence, handed down at a hearing in U.S. District Court, was in line with a plea deal that she had struck with prosecutors midway into her trial in May.

Schrenko, 56, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering in exchange for testifying against her co-defendants. In the binding agreement, she agreed to serve eight years in prison.

Prosecutors said the scheme defrauded the public of $600,000 in federal education funds, intended for deaf and honors students. They said the money was funneled into Schrenko's 2002 campaign for governor and spent on a face lift.

 
Originally posted by: halik
Hah I don't think the $600K would make much difference in what the kids learn.
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Since Atlanta City Schools alone spend something like $12k per child, probably not.

Still, embezzling is embezzling.
 
Originally posted by: eLiu
Originally posted by: Mursilis
Public education FTL. Little more than day care centers these days.
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I went to public school & it worked out rather well for me 😛
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So did I, from K through law school. Never attended a private school at all. So it worked out for me, too, but that doesn't mean the system as a whole isn't flawed/broken in many, many localities.
 
Public education sucks, and generally needs to be fixed. Bush isn't helping, either... he has good intentions, but I wonder if he really has any idea how to fix the problem.
 
Originally posted by: Aflac
Public education sucks, and generally needs to be fixed. Bush isn't helping, either... he has good intentions, but I wonder if he really has any idea how to fix the problem.
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Even if he did, the teacher's union is so powerful that it will just want to keep the status quo or relax standards for teacher's even more.
 
Originally posted by: Mursilis
Public education FTL. Little more than day care centers these days.
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If you are parents look in the mirror because that is where the real fault lies. You are the ones that demand that the public schools don't discipline little Johnny, fail little Johnny, or do anything that in any way might be construed as hurting little Johnny's self esteem in any way.
 
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