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Allegations of fraud at an LAUSD school: Are you paying for students who aren't there?

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'No teacher should have to lie as part of their job'. Ross Palombo talks to a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School who says he was told to lie about class attendance, which is how the state calculates funding from your tax dollars.

If 80% of success is showing up, then the James Madison Bulldogs may need to be more tenacious, and administrators may need to be more truthful, as a teacher there says.'I suspect this is a $1 million problem, every year, going all the way back,' teacher Dan Chang said. Chang, a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher, said he only needs to go back to the last day of school — Friday, June 9 — to show that problem at his school.

'It mattered enough for Chang to report it to the LAUSD inspector general. In his report, he details this incident and adds that 'colleagues' and 'several individuals from other schools remarked that this is a widespread practice throughout LAUSD.'He continued by saying he was concerned about 'committing some kind of attendance fraud.'Chang said he had not received a response.

 

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