Let's Talk About It with Jenny White/Urban Education, is it working?

It is sad but true that many in charge of public schools these days are only there to see what they can get out of it and not what can they can do to help students learn. There seems to be a culture of how much money can I skim off the top of the stack and not get caught? The corruption in the Detroit Public School system seemed to work for some administrators for a while before they were caught.The way it worked, the government explained, is that the principals would order badly needed supplies that would never be delivered. The vendor, would get paid, and in return, he would give kickbacks to the principals. The administrator who allegedly made this all possible, allegedly got more than three hundred thousand dollars.The principals involved got kickbacks ranging from nearly two hundred thousand to a piddly four thousand dollars. The vendor allegedly had been doing this for thirteen years, scamming $2.7 million along the way.  The teachers and students suffer for it because they never get the much needed supplies.

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