- Freed by Chess, Cornered by D.C. Priorities (2003)
- Moten Educational Center School Chess Team Travels to Nashville (2003)
- School Uses Chess to Help Students (2003)
- Student Money Vanishes, But Few Are Punished (2007)
- Ex-Worker Charged with Stealing Donations to Student Club (2007)
- Ex-School Official Charged with Stealing Chess Club Funds (2007)
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
School Corruption Hurts D.C. Chess Program
In "A Most Wicked Chess Game: The D.C. Schools" (also here), Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher describes how $70,000 raised for a chess program to help struggling kids at the Moten Elementary school in Southeast Washington was stolen by an embezzling business manager. This is a very troubling case of school corruption, which Fisher uses to indict the whole system. Related coverage here:
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A very shocking case and post especially the last sentence: For now, what's got my blood boiling is that those whose calling it is to investigate and punish the wrongdoers found these acts unworthy of their time or effort.
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