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Former Aspira principal alleged misuse of federal funds

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CHARTER FRAUD:  Your Federal money at work  offering the 'choice' of charter schools! " Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania misused $1.2 million in federal funds meant for laptops, after-school programs, and employee bonuses, and falsified reports about how the money was spent.  The U.S. Department of Education awarded Aspira a grant totaling nearly $400,000 over two years for classroom furniture and technology at Stetson. Aspira said it would use $230,000 to buy four mobile laptop labs in 2010-11 and nine the next year.. EX PRINCIPAL  and whistle-blower,  Lajara said that no laptops were purchased while he was principal and that the only computers at Stetson were donated refurbished ones.  Aspira charter schools have not achieved the academic improvements the organization promised.  "

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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