Dallas schools to repay HIV education money in whistle-blower settlement

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-disdgrants_22met.ART.West.Edition1.4617e45.html

The Dallas Independent School District has settled an employee's whistle-blower lawsuit by agreeing to repay the federal government about $336,000 in grant money it received for HIV education programs.

The money, paid over three years, was to provide two full-time employees for the program. The district, however, assigned those employees other duties and charged the costs to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant, according to the original lawsuit.

The lawsuit has been under seal since it was filed in October 2006. The settlement was made public by a judge after all parties signed off on it this week.

The district has run afoul of grant-spending rules recently. Preliminary results from two independent audits under way indicate that the district may have misspent as much as $17.5 million in grant funds from the federal government's Title I and 21st Century after-school program.

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Way to go, DISD..as a TX healthcare professional who works w/ HIV patients, I'm thinking whoever had knowledge of this fraud needs to serve a few hundred hours doing volunteer work with people living with the virus...specifically, teenagers and 20-something year olds. How many lives could that $300,000 have saved if it actually went towards education and prevention????




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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. School districts misuse grant money all the time

I think there is a seminar offered somewhere where they teach school administrators how to do this.

And I am glad to see at least one district is being held accountable.