Florida voucher school principal once tried for murder. Good job, Jeb.

[madfloridian]

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040716/NEWS/407160417/1039
BARTOW --SNIP..."The private-school principal accused of stealing state voucher money via the now defunct Faith Christian Academy had once been tried for the murder of her husband in Arkansas.

Betty Mae Jives Mitchell, then Betty Clark, and Louise Henry were accused in 1987 of poisoning Mitchell's former husband, Thomas Joseph Clark, with arsenic in Crittenden County, Ark. The trial ended in a hung jury, and the state dropped its case against the pair."

SNIP..."It's the latest revelation in an already complicated case. But the murder trial will ultimately have no bearing on the outcome of the racketeering and theft allegations against Mitchell and her associates.

The group is accused of bilking the state voucher system, the federal school lunch program and a scholarship funding organization out of about $200,000..."END SNIP

Faith Academy, no oversight in Jeb's corporate Florida.

[hatrack]

1. We need to bring the same miracle of faith-based education to EVERY state!

Florida is only the beginning. Thanks, Jeb!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Christian White Flight Academies.

It's all about diverting money, and very little about education. As long as those private schools keep sending donation money to Jeb and his boys, no government agency is going to look into them. It generally takes an investigative reporter from the Palm Beach Post to reveal the truth. Then suddenly Jeb Bush is all over it like white in a Christian private school.

[madfloridian]

3. Jax Times Union says this incident proves voucher system works.

http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/070204/opi_16001263.shtml

SNIP..."Those who were demanding "accountability" in the voucher programs should be satisfied. Events this week proved that the current system works well and the legislative overkill that failed to gain acceptance in the Legislature was unnecessary.

Seven employees of a private school in Polk County are accused of defrauding two of the voucher programs and the free school lunch program.

Their arrests following an audit were proof of the accountability. Had it not been there, the suspects would not have been caught..."

Spin Spin Spin Spin

[redqueen]

4. LOL

This is so pitiful!

Accountability? How're the students doing? We all KNEW fraud would happen with no oversight, but the REAL test is how well the STUDENTS are learning!

Honestly -- these Bu$h Pary Loyalists -- MORANS, the lot of 'em!