Over the past month, all you seem to hear dominating the news reports is DOGE. The Trump appointed agency is finding government waste on a mass scale, and politicians are going ballistic in fear that their pocket-lining schemes will be exposed. The problem has also been going on for years right inside our state and county governments, including our local school systems. We hear quite often, “Maryland needs a DOGE.” That can happen, but it must start with the people.
The concept of DOGE is really nothing new. There just needs to be people that are actually willing to take a stand to expose the waste, fraud, and abuse and put an end to it. The Delmarva Parent Teacher Coalition has worked since 2020 to expose the waste, fraud, and abuse in our local school systems in multiple counties. Prior to that, there have been very few citizens that have attempted to expose government waste, fraud, and abuse, but have always been railroaded, ignored, or discredited by the local media, which the school systems control.
Ironically, all of these agencies and local school systems have ethics policies, committees, and even whistleblower policies for the appearance of compliance and accountability. Notice we used the word appearance.
Elected school boards have legal immunity, which means that they can’t be personally sued for carrying out their elected duties. School administrations also share a form of immunity as an education institution. They always seem to get away with illegal practices, which would otherwise result in jail if a citizen did the same. There’s never any legal ramifications if they get caught, because who would ever bring forth consequences that would negatively impact a school that’s tasked with teaching children? Only a monster would do such a thing.
We are going to show you the main areas of waste, fraud, and abuse practiced by our local school systems.
- Misappropriation of funds. This is a common one, where budgeted items are not spent as intended, repurposing these funds for something entirely different after the budget is approved.
- Secret bank accounts that are not publicly disclosed. We have discovered that all school systems have secret accounts that you do not see disclosed in the school system’s general fund. These secret account(s) are used to establish a slush fund. Whenever a large legal settlement or excessive insurance claim occurs, it can’t come from the general fund. It comes from the slush fund! Some of these accounts contain leftover Covid-19 relief funds from the CARES Act and ESSER that were designed to be allocated to health. School systems have millions stashed away for that rainy day.
now we know why our local elected state reps are not looking out for. to busy getting theirs while we all take it up the butt! time for mr adams to pack it in! shame!
It’s very well known by those who have worked at the WCBOE that a “Spend it or loose it” mentality was in play. Going back to “The Conway or the wrong way” mentality, the administrators of the time period all fell in line lock step. Spend everything, no matter how you do it, before Memorial Day, and certainly before June 30. Of course, it’s all done nice and proper like, and the auditors sign off every year that everything is on the up and up.
Nothing has changed.
Why is this done? So they can scream from Olympus that they need more money. Meanwhile they make 6 figure salaries with benefits and a state retirement, while the rest of us slug it out on half that with no hope of retirement, and praying we don’t get sick or injured. I’d love to see DOGE rip this place apart.