Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Kiddies go door-to-door raising money. "Former" Principal Swipes it.

“It is a sad day when leaders in our schools are charged with stealing from their students,” New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner said last week in announcing state indictments of Michael Hailey, the former principal of H.B. Wilson Elementary School, and his top administrator, Patricia Johnson.

Students from a Camden, N.J., elementary school hosted bake sales and sold candy door to door last year to raise money for field trips to the zoo and other places. Teachers reached into their own pockets to help. But their principal and his top aide kept the money, a grand jury alleges.

The March 19 indictments accuse the two of pocketing $14,298 collected for 13 field trips.

Pathetic story from Education Week.

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