Is it a coincidence that Dan Burns, former TPS business manager, while working under Dr. Eugene Sanders who stole money from TPS pleaded guilty today at the same time Dr. Eugene Sanders was resigning from the Cleveland School system with 4 years left on his contract?
Dr. Sanders resigned because he wants to spend more time with his family???!!!
You can pick up and read the story in El Tiempo.
===
El Tiempo Article Kevin Milliken
Former TPS Administrator Ordered Probes of Private Citizens Investigations Occurred at Taxpayer Expense
The former business manager at Toledo Public Schools hired a private investigation firm at taxpayer expense to look into the backgrounds of five people who were private citizens at the time, including three people who would eventually be elected to the TPS board of education.
Toledo, Ohio – Former Board Member Darlene Fisher along with Francis Dumbuya and Steven Flagg will hold a press conference on January 13, 2010 to discuss the invasion of their privacy through the illegal and immoral investigations conducted by the Toledo Public Schools.
The press and public are cordially invited to attend.
What: Press Conference
When: 1 PM, January 13, 2010
Where: Kent Branch Library, auditorium
3101 Collingwood Boulevard
Ah, ask and ye shall get. I wondered this morning, that Dan Burns' investigations discovered in Cleveland had to start earlier and we find out they have. According to the Blade, Burns investigated Robert Torres, Darlene Fisher, Steven Steel, Steve Flagg, and Francis Dumbuya. I was not on the list. I don't know how I feel about this. Read more in the Blade. But now we go from stealing to having the district get all J Edgar Hoover on people. That is an interesting shift of events.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer published the latest on the Burns saga. Again, one has to wonder if this was the first time he did it-I would put money on no. Dr. Sanders is of course denying knowledge.
====
Former Cleveland schools Chief Operating Officer Daniel Burns had a private firm conduct undercover investigations of three high-ranking district administrators, probes that cost tens of thousands of dollars but failed to find anything suspicious, Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders says.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/cleveland_schools_ex-official_1....
Apparently the printers on the invoices never existed. Did I mention how good it is that this happened in Cleveland? At least we will probably hear the rest of the story.
===
Not only did the Cleveland schools fail to receive six printing machines at the center of a state and county investigation, but a detective says the equipment never existed.
Model numbers on the invoices are similar to some used by Ryobi, the company listed as the manufacturer. But the numbers are phony, Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Detective David Lisy said.
More on the Burns saga. Glad the Plain Dealer is following up on this because they do not have kid gloves when it comes to TPS-let's hope they keep looking.
====
A company at the heart of an investigation into Cleveland schools purchasing had a lucrative run with former district Chief Operating Officer Daniel Burns when he worked in Toledo, records show.
Superior Offset Supplies, based in Toledo, received about $929,000 from the Toledo schools in the 5½ years that Burns served as assistant to the district's business manager and later as chief business manager, the records indicate.
More copying machines are missing from Cleveland Public Schools. Here is something of note: it seems like everything goes by here in Toledo, but when they get to Cleveland, they make Sanders resign his board seat from 5/3 Bank and they actually investigate people. Makes you wonder what is going on here locally in the Toledo Public Schools that is not reported. Does a person actually go from being an angel to losing track of 6 large duplication machines? The company they were purchased from is a local company - Superior Offset Supplies and SOS Graphics and they are also being looked at too.
