After a joint investigation by Financial Crimes Unit detectives and Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) human resources, two school employees were each charged with embezzlement and money laundering.
Police identified the arrestees as Sonya Swansbrough, 46, of Woodbridge, principal at Poe Middle School, and Bethany Speed, 38, of Burke, an administrative employee at Jeb Stuart High School. Police began an investigation after being contacted by FCPS in late September 2013. The allegations involved falsifying timesheets for personal financial gain. An investigation determined that these incidents began as early as May 2010 and officials believe over $100,000 may have been embezzled.
Police also charged a third individual, Brenton Rusnak, 20, of Radford with receiving stolen property in connection to this case. Rusnak is Swansbrough's son. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.

The principal of an Annandale, Va. middle school and an administrative employee of a Falls Church, Va. high school are accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from Fairfax County Public Schools.

Sonya Swansbrough, 46, principal at Poe Middle School and Bethany Speed, 38, administrative employee at Jeb Stuart High School are accused of falsifying timesheets for personal financial gain, according to Fairfax County Police.

An investigation indicated the crimes may have begun as early as May 2010, and officers say more than $100,000 may have been embezzled by the women.

Swansbrough's 20-year-old son, Brenton Rusnak, is facing charged of receiving stolen property in connection with the case.

If you have any information on this case, call police at 1-866-411-T

Repeat after me - world class schools...world class schools....world class schools....

http://fcnp.com/2013/11/11/j-e-b-stuart-administrator-poe-middle-school-principal-charged-with-embezzling-money-laundering/

Bethany Speed is indeed employed at JEB Stuart, but she has only been there for a few months. Before that she also worked at Poe.

They have already changed the school profile to list an acting principal.

I would have thought that principal is a salaried position. Bus drivers and janitors fill out time sheets, not the professionals I think.

Anyway, how stupid do you have to be throw away a six figure income and great pension just to steal nickels and dimes. Gotta be a negro.

Ummm, no. She's quite pale and blonde you racist jackass. Her photo is in the link above.

they where quick to update the webpage. so I guess she fired?

I will be posting her salaries shortly

Swansbrough, Sonya Y Principal, MS Poe Middle $ 127,731.00
Speed, Bethany M Administrative Assistant III Stuart High $ 68,383.00

syswansbroug@fcps.edu

Speed submitted timesheets with false overtime. Swansbrough signed them. Speed kicked back a percentage of the difference. That could explain the timesheet bit, but not the receipt of stolen property. Speed worked in purchasing at Poe, so she purchased merchandise under authorization from Swansbrough that got directed at Swansbrough's son.
Speculation>

To be clear, the above is complete, utter, wild and uniformed speculation on my part.

In the computer age it is near impossible to cover up these kind of tracks. Passcards register movement and access. Computers register time in and out.

One making six figues and the other at 70k a year and its not enough I guess.

But given the choice to resign or be fired thats what FX does as well the Feds. If they resign they keep what they have in the retirement system and they can get a penison for years of service at age 65,or take a lousy early retirement if their years and age add up. If they are fired all contributions are returned ..zip zero retirement. Now theres going to be a time period for the charges to be proved so shes on Admin leave. Then a decision will be made if theres evidence enough shes guilty or found so in court


What a way to go with a good 90 K retirement waiting...

Here's a link to the story in the Annandale Blog: http://bit.ly/HJVKj3

Bethany Speed and Sonya Swansbrough: They look worthy of prison. In fact, it looks like they're already there. Either that, or they've been crying their frickin' eyes out for several days.


Attachments:

Police have also charged a third individual, Brenton Rusnak, 20, of Radford with receiving stolen property in connection with the case. Rusnak is Swansbrough’s son.

Hmmm ... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

This is such a shame. This lady was once my teacher before she was principaal she was an amazing art teacher. It's sad to see people ruin their careers for the love of money.

Stupid bitches. They had it made but that wasn't good enough they had to be greedy pigs and fuck it all up. I hope they both get lengthy prison sentances...

24 months of house arrest

There is no overtime pay for FCPS salary employees. Additional income comes from reimbursement time sheets accounting for extra travel time or supplies bought. There is also a school credit card for each school. These are speculations on my part.

$127k+ and she was embezzling? Greedy fuck.

Girl1234 Wrote:
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> There is no overtime pay for FCPS salary
> employees. Additional income comes from
> reimbursement time sheets accounting for extra
> travel time or supplies bought. There is also a
> school credit card for each school. These are
> speculations on my part.

+1

You probably got it.

My guess is there are others involved also, possibly co-conspirators/snitches who blew the whistle after getting tagged.

Another possibility is the two thieving twats put in large orders for laptops or other highly liquid items and listed the recipients as some unwitting co-worker.

The blonde then had her son resell them or kept for personal use.

idontlikebeingrightaboutshitlikethisbutiam



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Speed and Swainsborough were probably frequent posters here, carping about low pay and crowing about how great FCPS are.

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Gee. maybe now the idiots on the School Board like KATHY SMITH, who have opposed an INDEPENDENT auditor---got that Kathy---INDEPENDENT auditors are needed.

FCPS has a tip line--I bet someone at Poe ratted them out.

All schools are audited each year. It is sometime hard to catch at first but people get sloppy after they start to feel comfortable with the crime. FCPS had a summer school worker bee who was in charge of taking in summer school money pocket most of the cash that came in. This went on for a while before someone figured it out. She resigned and FCPS just swept it under the carpet. Heck look at the PTA president from Navy Elem who was thought to have stolen almost a couple of hundred thousand from the Navy community. If you want to worry about something think about the gate money collected in sports. Thousands being counted by parents, students, staff and volunteers, where is the accountability.

Paula Meoli

Assistant Principal

Face it, FCPS probably has enough child molesters and thieves to fill the county jail.

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My guess is this all blown way out of proportion and the stolen item is a county laptop that Speed lent to son to use at Radford.

I am currently a student there i had a suspicion that something was up and now i learn that my suspicions were true.









I have revealed enough info for now.

what happened to her? Wrote:
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> Paula Meoli
>
> Assistant Principal


In January 2013 she was "promoted" to asst principal at Fairfax. How is that a promotion.

Either she was the whistleblower of FCPS wanted to put someone else in these as asst principal to smoke them out.

Tax Payer Wrote:
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> Swansbrough, Sonya Y Principal, MS Poe Middle $
> 127,731.00
> Speed, Bethany M Administrative Assistant III
> Stuart High $ 68,383.00


Their total compensation probably exceeded those # after adding in all the benefits and adjusting for the school calendar.

Really almost 70K to be an admin assistant for a county school system? That is not a free market system at work.

How much do executive assistants who for fortune 500 CEO's make?



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With 25 years thats 95 K retirement for the Principal and 51 K for the admin .. Not too shabby but not as good as Feds..

"Tears are never show when their doing the crime...
they only show when their doing their time.."

I am surprised this didn't happen at that cesspool Dogwood.

How much to executive assistants who for fortune 500 CEO's make?

Are you kidding????!!!!

Try $125-$200K with the same amount of experience.

There is so much fluff and puffery in private sector salaries above the entry-level. Why do you nimcopoops begrudge teachers their fixed-step salaries???

Warren Buffett Wrote:
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> How much to executive assistants who for fortune
> 500 CEO's make?
>
> Are you kidding????!!!!
>
> Try $125-$200K with the same amount of experience.
>
>
> There is so much fluff and puffery in private
> sector salaries above the entry-level. Why do you
> nimcopoops begrudge teachers their fixed-step
> salaries???


Warren Buffett's executive secretary, who's been with him for 20 years on top of everything else that involves, isn't even in the same universe as being any kind of valid comparison to an "Admin Assistant III" at some nothing Fairfax County school. lol

If anything, on that basis it should be even a larger difference.

The details are yet to come but this is really sad for the Poe community. Tragic that a school principal would involve her own son in something like this (if that is, indeed, what happened). Just really, really sad all around.

I bet the cops offered her a deal--tell us everything and we won't charge your kid.

Looks like they went after him as punishment for her not cooperating.

Warren Buffett Wrote:
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> How much to executive assistants who for fortune
> 500 CEO's make?
>
> Are you kidding????!!!!
>
> Try $125-$200K with the same amount of experience.
>
>
> There is so much fluff and puffery in private
> sector salaries above the entry-level. Why do you
> nimcopoops begrudge teachers their fixed-step
> salaries???

People like you exemplify why its IMPOSSIBLE to have a civil and rational conversations about serious matters.

Its a simple question that does not require an emotionally inflamed response.

People begrudge fixed step salaries because it does not incentivize someone to consistently improve their performance.

If you incentivized and paid teachers the higher market salary equivalent to the background, education, and training required for other careers, the state and county governments could not afford to exist. Teachers subsidize public education budgets. Meanwhile, non-teacher county employees and management are paid salaries approaching the private sector equivalent.

Those that despise the fixed-step, non-motivating pay structure are not prepared to pay the higher salaries that would retain and incentivize the best of the best teachers.

PUT UP or SHUT UP. When it comes to teacher pay, the citizens are willing to SHUT UP about the compensation but WHINE AND CRY about their little spoiled brat not making straight A's.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^
What Warren Buffett wrote above is so true.

I have worked in the private sector for over 25 years. The over-inflated salaries for do-nothing, paper-pushing work is mind-boggling.

Employees with long tenures are accustomed to 10% annual increases and before you know it, everybody is making over $100K and the executives require a multiple of this average. This is why jobs are outsourced to India, China, etc.

I would rather pay 25 Americans a salary of $50-$75,000.

Instead, the current model in the U.S. is to pay 3 Americans $200K+, 7 Americans $100K, and 20 outsourced foreigners $15-20,000 each.

Jonathan Appleseed Wrote:
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> If you incentivized and paid teachers the higher
> market salary equivalent to the background,
> education, and training required for other
> careers, the state and county governments could
> not afford to exist. Teachers subsidize public
> education budgets. Meanwhile, non-teacher county
> employees and management are paid salaries
> approaching the private sector equivalent.

LOL! Are you implying that fixed step pay keep teachers salaries DOWN?

If what you say is true then the teachers own unions are doing a huge disservice to the profession by negotiating for those benefits and increases. Think about this, the private sector counterparts for public school teachers are private school teachers. Generally when a public school teachers leaves the public school system for a teaching job at a private school he/she is going to receive LESS pay.

In REALITY the exact opposite would happen. If teachers were paid what market forces dictate their wages would most likely DECREASE saving school systems money.

FCPS is inundated with applicants for teaching position. They are perfectly willing to accept the prevailing wage.

Until that changes, the salaries paid are reasonable.

I have been trying to get on as an admin assstant for FCPS (and the County of Faifax proper) for YEARS and not ONCE even got a call for an interview- too bad my 7 years of private sector executive level admin assisting for fortune 500 companies is not good enough...

.... since I'm not fucking/living with someone already employed by FCPS to even get an interview for an Admin level I! ;)

Oh well glad I moved on to a different field and stayed in the private sector!

Some of these people seem to think that the rest of us don't remember what a bunch of slackers and tards most of the education majors were.

Swansbrough, Sonya Y Principal, MS Poe Middle $ 127,731.00
Speed, Bethany M Administrative Assistant III Stuart High $ 68,383.00


Sad my friend with Masters teaching makes less than the Admin assitant who plays on facebook and candy crush all day.

That is hardcore. It happens in every industry, but it is more sad when it involves a church, school, etc.

A high school assistant principal has a higher salary than a middle school AP. HS is more demanding (additional duties), so yes Paula Meoli's move was, indeed, a promotion.

With most cases of really bad misconduct yes the County and schools gives a choice of resign or be fired. With criminal acts if its a misdemenor they might let them resign if they cooperate. with a felony they are fired. Years ago Officer Hall of the West Springfield Station went to prison for many years for on duty bank robberies, and his wife got his pension, Thats becaue he was a police officer. He needed 20 years for a basic pension he had about 23 and they can retire at any age. With the regular county and schools no police fire or sheriffs, its age 50, new employees just hired age 55. But you would have to have 30 years to go out at 50 so they will both be fired no pension gratis if their convicted of a felony. As there not 50 it appears and they would have to have 30 years at that The magic number is 80 years of service and age for a regular pension or 75 years of service and age for a greatly reduced early retirement.

If a person makes their time and age to get a pension then they will get it even if fired with a felony.

Very sad case a horror story really.

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> If what you say is true then the teachers own
> unions are doing a huge disservice to the
> profession by negotiating for those benefits and
> increases. Think about this, the private sector
> counterparts for public school teachers are
> private school teachers. Generally when a public
> school teachers leaves the public school system
> for a teaching job at a private school he/she is
> going to receive LESS pay.


Do you honestly believe that "teachers unions" negotiate pay and benefits in Fairfax County? If so, you are one dumb bastard.

There are places in this country where unions do negotiate teacher pay/bennies. THAT is what Rush is talking about. There is NO collective bargaining in Fairfax County, or anywhere else in Virginia.

Fairfax teacher "unions" are merely lobbying groups that advocate for their (voluntary) members. They ask for teacher raises and the School Board says yes or no----usually no. There is no recourse. These "unions" have ZERO power to force a fucking thing.

Quit swallowing all that right wing radio horseshit whole, and do a little research. You might learn something.

How does one of the most publicly observed public employees embezzle that much money? With time sheets? Teachers can't put in for overtime, how could principals? what gives?

kulp Wrote:
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> Hay Zeus Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If what you say is true then the teachers own
> > unions are doing a huge disservice to the
> > profession by negotiating for those benefits
> and
> > increases. Think about this, the private sector
> > counterparts for public school teachers are
> > private school teachers. Generally when a
> public
> > school teachers leaves the public school system
> > for a teaching job at a private school he/she
> is
> > going to receive LESS pay.
>
>
> Do you honestly believe that "teachers unions"
> negotiate pay and benefits in Fairfax County? If
> so, you are one dumb bastard.
>
> There are places in this country where unions do
> negotiate teacher pay/bennies. THAT is what Rush
> is talking about. There is NO collective
> bargaining in Fairfax County, or anywhere else in
> Virginia.
>
> Fairfax teacher "unions" are merely lobbying
> groups that advocate for their (voluntary)
> members. They ask for teacher raises and the
> School Board says yes or no----usually no. There
> is no recourse. These "unions" have ZERO power to
> force a fucking thing.
>
> Quit swallowing all that right wing radio
> horseshit whole, and do a little research. You
> might learn something.


Correct, the Commonwealth is a "right to work state," thus minimizing or eliminating any real union type of activity/effectiveness.

kulp Wrote:
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> Hay Zeus Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If what you say is true then the teachers own
> > unions are doing a huge disservice to the
> > profession by negotiating for those benefits
> and
> > increases. Think about this, the private sector
> > counterparts for public school teachers are
> > private school teachers. Generally when a
> public
> > school teachers leaves the public school system
> > for a teaching job at a private school he/she
> is
> > going to receive LESS pay.
>
>
> Do you honestly believe that "teachers unions"
> negotiate pay and benefits in Fairfax County? If
> so, you are one dumb bastard.
>
> There are places in this country where unions do
> negotiate teacher pay/bennies. THAT is what Rush
> is talking about. There is NO collective
> bargaining in Fairfax County, or anywhere else in
> Virginia.
>
> Fairfax teacher "unions" are merely lobbying
> groups that advocate for their (voluntary)
> members. They ask for teacher raises and the
> School Board says yes or no----usually no. There
> is no recourse. These "unions" have ZERO power to
> force a fucking thing.
>
> Quit swallowing all that right wing radio
> horseshit whole, and do a little research. You
> might learn something.


You seem to have missed the point of what he was saying.

It wasn't about the unions, rather the claim that they'd be paid so much more on the 'outside.' The union comment was just to demonstrate how the union doing such things would run counter to their own interests if what you'd said was the case.

Principals never go to work never fill out leave slips - mine was out for over a month and our superintendent had no idea...she was collecting pay and not working isn't that fraud?

I know of several schools where the principal is a no show on a regular basis if a teacher did this they we would be fired it must be good to get paid 127, 000.00 and not have to be accountable for your time.....

sue teller wrote:
> Principals never go to work never fill out leave slips - mine was out for over a >month and our superintendent had no idea...she was collecting pay and not working >isn't that fraud?

>I know of several schools where the principal is a no show on a regular basis if a >teacher did this they we would be fired it must be good to get paid 127, 000.00 and >not have to be accountable for your time.....

Name these principals and schools and when you allege they are not working.

Many principal's are not in schools because they, as part of their job responsibilities, are engaged in meetings and activities at other schools or County offices.
Get a grip and get your facts straight before you call our the principals.

there is something really wrong with the system if they can steal 100k. I know its not much as part of the leviathan that is the FFX county school budget but if a principal is doing it you can be sure lots of other more likely suspects are hard at work defrauding the county.

Im a big fan of our school system but this is a real kick in the teeth to those of us that defend the expense of our top notch schools...

shut up sue teller Wrote:
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> sue teller wrote:
> > Principals never go to work never fill out leave
> slips - mine was out for over a >month and our
> superintendent had no idea...she was collecting
> pay and not working >isn't that fraud?
>
> >I know of several schools where the principal is
> a no show on a regular basis if a >teacher did
> this they we would be fired it must be good to get
> paid 127, 000.00 and >not have to be accountable
> for your time.....
>
> Name these principals and schools and when you
> allege they are not working.
>
> Many principal's are not in schools because they,
> as part of their job responsibilities, are engaged
> in meetings and activities at other schools or
> County offices.
> Get a grip and get your facts straight before you
> call our the principals.


Hmmm. this sounds like someone blowing smoke--where are they, exactly, when they're not at the schools their supposed to supervise? why are they at other schools during school hours? who's supervising the schools where they are supposed to be? if they aren't needed to supervise the schools, then why are we paying them more than any other employee in the system? These aren't "CEO"s they're the head babysitters. if they were CEO's they'd actually be accountable like real CEO's to shareholders and Boards of Directors

kulp Wrote:
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> Do you honestly believe that "teachers unions"
> negotiate pay and benefits in Fairfax County? If
> so, you are one dumb bastard.
> Quit swallowing all that right wing radio
> horseshit whole, and do a little research. You
> might learn something.

The NEA and teachers unions are a big contributor to politicians. You may not think they have any rights to bargain or negotiate but money talks. You need to do your own research and you might learn something about politics, but probably not since your mind seems to be made up.

It is inconceivable to me that someone would involve their child in this sort of scheme unless there was a truly compelling motive (from their perspective). I have no idea what that could be, but there has to be something more to this than pure greed.

Looks like she was paying her son for work when really he was in college. That's where the falsified time sheets come in. At age 19 he was able to start a clothing company. Guess we now know where the seed money came from. And the admin asst declared bankruptcy recently.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-principal-faces-charges-allegedly-paid-son-for-work-he-didnt-do/2013/11/12/a5c7d052-4bda-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html

shut up sue teller Wrote:
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> sue teller wrote:
> > Principals never go to work never fill out leave
> slips - mine was out for over a >month and our
> superintendent had no idea...she was collecting
> pay and not working >isn't that fraud?
>
> >I know of several schools where the principal is
> a no show on a regular basis if a >teacher did
> this they we would be fired it must be good to get
> paid 127, 000.00 and >not have to be accountable
> for your time.....
>
> Name these principals and schools and when you
> allege they are not working.
>
> Many principal's are not in schools because they,
> as part of their job responsibilities, are engaged
> in meetings and activities at other schools or
> County offices.
> Get a grip and get your facts straight before you
> call our the principals.


Principals out for extented periods of time without putting in for leave? Rampant at the school I worked at, especially during the summer months. If any of the bootom feeders are out for an hour you better put that leave slip in, the public has not a clue.

Just saw the son's website and clothing line.

Unimpressive.

A lot of these "clothing manufacturers" are just computer logo artists who pay someone to print on their own threads on an as-needed basis.

I don't think the mother spent a lot of money on the son's venture.



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WingNut Wrote:
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> Just saw the son's website and clothing line.
>
> Unimpressive.
>
> A lot of these "clothing manufacturers" are just
> computer logo artists who pay someone to print on
> their own threads on an as-needed basis.
>
> I don't think the mother spent a lot of money on
> the son's venture.

Maybe the purpose of the clothing line was to establish a source from which all of that extra money was coming from? Hard to say. I'm sure the facts will all come out.

1. How can amyone issue a paycheck to someone who hasn't gone thru HR. Criminal background check, etc.

2. WHERE THE HELL is the supervisor of the after school program???? Did he know he ahad a ghost employee on the payroll??

3. How can $130k go missing from school funds without someone catching it??? Did we learn nothing after the $300k theft at TJ?

And the schools want more money from The BOS.....good luck.

checks and balances Wrote:
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> 1. How can amyone issue a paycheck to someone who
> hasn't gone thru HR. Criminal background check,
> etc.
>
> 2. WHERE THE HELL is the supervisor of the after
> school program???? Did he know he ahad a ghost
> employee on the payroll??
>
> 3. How can $130k go missing from school funds
> without someone catching it??? Did we learn
> nothing after the $300k theft at TJ?
>
> And the schools want more money from The
> BOS.....good luck.

I was wondering the same thing. Is this kid listed as an FCPS employee?

Dig Deeper Wrote:
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> It is inconceivable to me that someone would
> involve their child in this sort of scheme unless
> there was a truly compelling motive (from their
> perspective). I have no idea what that could be,
> but there has to be something more to this than
> pure greed.

She felt comfortable enough to involve her kid in this mess That is a big indication that she never thought that she/they would be found out.

Yet, it all seems so....I don't know, blatant (100K+!). Weird.

$130k--who got most of it? Her kid?

After school program pays like $13 an hour--that would be a whole lot of hours needed.

Also middle school program is funded by BOS-big woops.

FCPS Insider Wrote:
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> Bethany Speed and Sonya Swansbrough: They look
> worthy of prison. In fact, it looks like they're
> already there. Either that, or they've been
> crying their frickin' eyes out for several days.
>



It's pure stupidity that these women thought they wouldn't be caught. Hello...it's 2013, embezzelers never get away with it.

The veteran Fairfax County middle school principal who was arrested on embezzlement charges this week allegedly used county funds and federal grant money to pay her son for work that authorities think he never performed, schools officials said Tuesday.

Using federal grant money could be problematic.

Can FCPS lose future grants due to this fraud?

Weekly Reader Wrote:
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> kulp Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Do you honestly believe that "teachers unions"
> > negotiate pay and benefits in Fairfax County?
> If
> > so, you are one dumb bastard.
> > Quit swallowing all that right wing radio
> > horseshit whole, and do a little research. You
> > might learn something.
>
> The NEA and teachers unions are a big contributor
> to politicians. You may not think they have any
> rights to bargain or negotiate but money talks.
> You need to do your own research and you might
> learn something about politics, but probably not
> since your mind seems to be made up.

No shit? ALL special interests are big contributors to politicians. The entire political system in the corrupt fucking country is based on "pay to play". What a revelation!

If the NEA and "teacher unions" are big contributors, they sure aren't getting much bang for their buck. Teachers have been going for years without a raise. I don't believe they are "big" contributors anyway. The very modest and voluntary "dues" they collect don't add up to huge sums, at least not compared to many other special interest groups.

This is proof our school employees need a huge raise. If they were paid appropriately this would never have happened. Who can live on $130,000 a year. Peanuts.

ntJwF Wrote:
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> I have been trying to get on as an admin assstant
> for FCPS (and the County of Faifax proper) for
> YEARS and not ONCE even got a call for an
> interview- too bad my 7 years of private sector
> executive level admin assisting for fortune 500
> companies is not good enough...
>
> .... since I'm not fucking/living with someone
> already employed by FCPS to even get an interview
> for an Admin level I! ;)


Let me clue you in, when a job is posted they already know who is getting it. They are just going through the legal motions. The county government is like one big pile of nepotism and favoritism. The school system is the worst, everyone is related or best friends with everyone else.

Nostradamus Wrote:
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> FCPS Insider Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Bethany Speed and Sonya Swansbrough: They look
> > worthy of prison. In fact, it looks like
> they're
> > already there. Either that, or they've been
> > crying their frickin' eyes out for several
> days.
> >

>
>
> It's pure stupidity that these women thought they
> wouldn't be caught. Hello...it's 2013,
> embezzelers never get away with it.

I guess she must have figured that she had it all under control, no one would find out. But, yep, Wrong! Busted.

100K is a heck of a lot of money...and some of it may have been grant money, too. That's really bad.

You get money there is a paper trail. You deposit money there is a paper trail. You spend money there is a paper trail. For a principal she seems very stupid.

Her kid was "hired" for the after school program in 2009.he is 20 toady which means he was just 16 and living in Woodbridge.

After school program starts at 230---I bet he was a fast driver.

Wonder if he ever did put in any hours and who was his supervisor?

kulp Wrote:
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>
> If the NEA and "teacher unions" are big
> contributors, they sure aren't getting much bang
> for their buck. Teachers have been going for
> years without a raise. I don't believe they are
> "big" contributors anyway. The very modest and
> voluntary "dues" they collect don't add up to huge
> sums, at least not compared to many other special
> interest groups.


Contributions from Labor - Public Employees Reported by McAuliffe Committees
(Omitting other unions and related PACs, etc.)

$125,000 American Federation of Teachers
$100,000 National Education Assn


American Federation of Teachers
(not counting various state and local affiliates)

Campaign Contribution(s) Totaling $175,000

Campaign
Contributions Committee
$125,000 McAuliffe for Governor - Terry
$100,000 Deeds for Governor - Creigh
$32,500 Va AFL-CIO
$25,000 Democratic Party - Virginia
$25,000 Democratic Party - Virginia House Caucus
$25,000 Herring for Attorney General - Mark
$10,305 Beyer for Governor - Don
$10,000 Moving Virginia Forward


National Education Assn

Campaign Contribution(s) Totaling $643,195

Campaign
Contributions Committee
$165,000 Democratic Party - Virginia Senate Caucus
$100,000 McAuliffe for Governor - Terry
$99,825 Democratic Party - Virginia
$79,145 Va Education Assn
$65,000 Herring for Attorney General - Mark
$35,000 Northam for Lt Governor - Ralph
$28,720 Deeds for Governor - Creigh
$25,000 Democratic Party - Virginia House Caucus
$20,000 Kaine for Governor - Tim
$20,000 Poisson for Delegate - David
$4,325 Democratic Party - Commonwealth Victory Fund
$780 Miller for Senate - Yvonne
$400 Republican Party of Virginia

Independent Expenditures reported by National Education Assn
Year: 2012

Total Monetary Value: $696,850

Monetary Value Date Reported Group or Person Making Expense Description(s) of Expense Candidate(s) Position
$172,667 10/12/2012 National Education Assn Production and time for TV ad George F Allen Oppose
$172,667 10/18/2012 National Education Assn Production and time for TV ad George F Allen Oppose
$172,667 10/23/2012 National Education Assn Production and time for TV ad George F Allen Oppose
$6,182 10/23/2012 National Education Assn Production and shipping of TV ad George F Allen Oppose
$172,667 10/25/2012 National Education Assn Production and time for TV ad George F Allen Oppose


Va Education Assn - Fairfax Co

Campaign Contribution(s) Totaling $51,364

Campaign
Contributions Committee
$9,220 Democratic Party - Fairfax County, Va
$5,000 Connolly for Fairfax County Board Chair - Gerald
$2,250 Amundson for Delegate - Kristen
$2,000 Belter for Senate - Catherine
$2,000 Bulova for Fairfax County Board Chair - Sharon
$1,800 Sickles for Delegate - Mark
$1,500 Lyman for Delegate - Julie
$1,500 Mitchell for Delegate - James
$1,500 Oleszek for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors - Janet
$1,375 DuBois for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors - Joan
$1,250 Roberts for Loudoun County Board of Supervisors - Richard
$1,100 Rust for Delegate - Tom
$1,000 Gross for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors - Penny
$1,000 Keating for Delegate - Gladys
$1,000 Lynch for Senate - Rosemary
$1,000 McClanahan for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors - Michael
$1,000 McKay for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors - Jeffrey
$1,000 Puller for Senate - Linda
(stopped at $1,000 level)


More from various groups if you want to look further.

hiring her own kid Wrote:
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> Her kid was "hired" for the after school program
> in 2009.he is 20 toady which means he was just 16
> and living in Woodbridge.
>
> After school program starts at 230---I bet he was
> a fast driver.
>
> Wonder if he ever did put in any hours and who was
> his supervisor?

Would the supervisor necessarily know if a "phantom employee" is on the books? I mean clearly he/she would know if the employee was scheduled to work and whether or not the employee had shown up to work. But if the employee was simply being mailed a check, not coming to work - would the supervisor even know that?

It does boggle my mind that this was (apparently) a paycheck sort of scenario.

Columbo Wrote:
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> You get money there is a paper trail. You deposit
> money there is a paper trail. You spend money
> there is a paper trail. For a principal she seems
> very stupid.


Exactly. And she was making 127 grand a year, doing this since 2010, about 500 grand, and the whole take was just over 100K, and it had to be split several ways, so she was doing all this for basically chump change compared to what she was making. What an idiot. If you're going to steal, steal big. Rob a bank, not a 7 - 11. For what she got, she might just as well have been robbing some kid's piggy bank. As for your last sentence, being a principal and being stupid, one does not necessarily exclude the other in my experience as an xtchr.

xtchr Wrote:
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> Columbo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You get money there is a paper trail. You
> deposit
> > money there is a paper trail. You spend money
> > there is a paper trail. For a principal she
> seems
> > very stupid.
>
>
> Exactly. And she was making 127 grand a year,
> doing this since 2010, about 500 grand, and the
> whole take was just over 100K, and it had to be
> split several ways, so she was doing all this for
> basically chump change compared to what she was
> making. What an idiot. If you're going to steal,
> steal big. Rob a bank, not a 7 - 11. For what
> she got, she might just as well have been robbing
> some kid's piggy bank. As for your last sentence,
> being a principal and being stupid, one does not
> necessarily exclude the other in my experience as
> an xtchr.

If she did this - and she has not been found guilty so she is still innocent. But if this all is true, I think that it was just easy money in her view - it was there for the taking and that's what she did.

xtchr Wrote:
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> Columbo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > You get money there is a paper trail. You
> deposit
> > money there is a paper trail. You spend money
> > there is a paper trail. For a principal she
> seems
> > very stupid.
>
>
> Exactly. And she was making 127 grand a year,
> doing this since 2010, about 500 grand, and the
> whole take was just over 100K, and it had to be
> split several ways, so she was doing all this for
> basically chump change compared to what she was
> making. What an idiot. If you're going to steal,
> steal big. Rob a bank, not a 7 - 11. For what
> she got, she might just as well have been robbing
> some kid's piggy bank. As for your last sentence,
> being a principal and being stupid, one does not
> necessarily exclude the other in my experience as
> an xtchr.


Well, $100,000 is what they know about so far---the articles say the investigation is still ongoing, so I wouldn't be surprised if they uncover more missing funds or more people involved in this scheme

http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20131113/NEWS/131119654/1117/fcps-principal-two-others-charged-in-money-laundering-scheme&template=fairfaxTimes

Monday, September 16, 2013

FCPS Middle School After-School Program Awarded VDOE Grant

The Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)-Fairfax County Middle School After-School program has been awarded a Title IV, Part B, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) grant from the Virginia Department of Education. This is a three-year grant with annual continuation awards of $199,758 which will support expanded after-school activities, parent engagement opportunities, and summer school programming at Holmes Middle School and Poe Middle School. This is the second three-year 21st CCLC grant received by these two schools.

The grant builds upon the school-county partnership that provides after-school activities in all middle schools by leveraging additional resources to support an expanded partnership base, increased parent and family involvement, and a summer program at both Holmes and Poe Middle Schools. Classroom teachers and a diverse group of ten community partners will provide a broad and deep spectrum of high quality supports and services to students at the two schools during the after-school hours. The community partners will also work to involve parents in their children’s learning and help to integrate the parents into the school environment. The summer program will provide students at Holmes and Poe with additional academic support and enrichment with a focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning, life skills, youth development, and sports programs.

This blended set of high quality programs is designed to improve the academic, social, emotional, and physical well-being of youth; support families and encourage their involvement in their children’s learning; support the educational needs of parents and improve their workforce preparedness skills; and meet the community’s need for a safe environment for youth during the after-school hours and in the summer.

John Chapman was the after school program cooordinator.

Wait a minute.... did Holmes and Poe EACH received a 199K grant or did Holmes and Poe receive ONE grant of 199K to be shared among the two schools?

Who do I go to with Questions about after school?
Amanda Sperling is the coordinator and Megan Skirving is the assistant.

Call the after school office 571-306-3520 they can answer any questions that you might have.

wait a minute Wrote:
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> Wait a minute.... did Holmes and Poe EACH received
> a 199K grant or did Holmes and Poe receive ONE
> grant of 199K to be shared among the two schools?


looks like each school gets $100k per year for 3 years.

OVERVIEW: As the recipient of federal funds for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is required to monitor grantees’ implementation of activities and compliance with program requirements. The monitoring document will assist in determining compliance with federal statutory requirements and identify areas in which technical assistance may be helpful to ensure the objectives described in the grant proposal are met. The visit will also be used to identify promising practices to be shared with other grantees.

21. Staff members are trained or hold appropriate licenses and/or endorsements in core academic areas as appropriate for an afterschool environment.

probably split Wrote:
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> wait a minute Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Wait a minute.... did Holmes and Poe EACH
> received
> > a 199K grant or did Holmes and Poe receive ONE
> > grant of 199K to be shared among the two
> schools?
>
>
> looks like each school gets $100k per year for 3
> years.

O.k. If that's the case then it's roughly 40% of Poe's grant money (roughly 120K give or take, or 40K X 3 years) that might be at issue here.

Grants may also be reduced if the grantee is:
›
not demonstrating substantial progress;
›
not serving the number of students as stated in the original application as measured by average daily program attendance; or
›
not utilizing the funds as approved.

John Chapman was the After School Specialist before Amanda Sperling. John had at least three Poe staff, Flo, Raynard and someone else (forgot name) who were paid overtime at the rate of $40/hour for work which they did not do.

John Chapman was also observed to do much of nothing himself, except play basketball and football with the kids.

Poe is one institution of cover ups for personal gain lead by Swansbrough, it appears. I certainly hope FCPS leadership does a clean sweep of this building and rebuilds with a solid leadership team.

^^And none of the above people have been charged with any sort of crime, either. Rattling off those names is stupid. Even if those people do work at that school it doesn't mean that they were involved in any sort of theft. In fact, even the people who have actually been arrested are innocent until proven guilty.

I went on a few dates with S.S. back when she was a teacher and before she first was married. She could back that thing up.

knockitoff Wrote:
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> ^^And none of the above people have been charged
> with any sort of crime, either. Rattling off those
> names is stupid. Even if those people do work at
> that school it doesn't mean that they were
> involved in any sort of theft. In fact, even the
> people who have actually been arrested are
> innocent until proven guilty.


True on the others, but those charged, its public record.

HC, was she down with anal?

130k a year and lives in Woodbridge? WTF

All Woodbridge girls love anal by the second date at the latest.

HC Wrote:
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> I went on a few dates with S.S. back when she was
> a teacher and before she first was married. She
> could back that thing up.


Don't stop there HC, tell us more. Usually the dumb ones are good in bed, so I'm guessing she was a freak.

TheTruthShallSetYouFree Wrote:
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> John Chapman was also observed to do much of
> nothing himself, except play basketball and
> football with the kids.

Is this the same John Chapman?