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IF ONLY YOU KNEW?

Well folks, the "Press Enterprise newspaper" did a perfunctory articule on money missing from student fund coffers at three Moreno Valley Unified schools and how the district's accounting department was soooo contrite.

They are going to fix those schools! Attendance and all! If only those three schools represented the real problems. The fiscal wrong doings at Moreno Valley Unified School District are rampant and well beyond any three schools. So too, it has been alleged that such abuses extend back at least 15 years. However, the problems worsened and became more obvious under former Assistant Superintendent Robert Wallace Crank. Crank, eliminated all positions of fiscal over sight regarding MVUSD'S loosely and randomly regulated student fundraising. There has not been any meaning full systematic structure for handling and accountability in that 15 year span . No training of state aligned methods or manuals, bookkeeping software has been mysteriously been wiped out completely (with no server level back up to be found), on ASB account’s computers. Amazingly, on at least three ocassions; just ahead of some official inquiry by an outside agency or the treat thereof.

I do not however, think of the new Superintendent Dr. White as complicit. I believe though she has been kept uninformed by individuals with vested interest in keeping these things hidden. In any case, most of the personnel who knew the truth have left the district by now. Some retired some forced out by a VERY complicit school board  Those who have not gone and might speak honestly, are systematically being forced out by deceit, harassment,  and lies in the hopes of silencing the truth once and for all and avoiding an incredible amount of liability and embarrassment. The majority of this unethical and sometimes illegal action comes from a top administrator who 20 days into his new job at MVUSD, said he “was going to clean up the reputation of HR.” referring to the unethical behaviors notorious of the previous HR Director.

I am referring for the moment, to nearly half a million dollars every year. May be more? Probably more. Stolen, misplaced, misappropriated, or just gone. Its a rough estimate based on my years working with ASB and talking to other advisors. Not to mention that MVUSD refused the County School's Forensic Accounting team access to their books and those of the school sight's "student funds account," One of the problems is almost all fundraising now is done in cash. Due to the logistics of handling returned checks, the schools seldom take them anymore. 


At my sight, large sums of cash were routinely kept in just about any lockable container. Sometimes for months on end.  As an example: In a singular act, five years ago, $10,000 in cash was stolen directly from the safe at one MVUSD middle school. Under the circumstances I was told, it took less than ten minutes to accomplish and there were only five people who had all the necessary keys to walk in and out with the money. No investigation occurred and no further mention was made of it.  The only persons who should have the key and safe combination are the ASB (Associated Student Body or "government") accountant and the school principal.  The cash sits with no oversight and no truly accurate record of it's existence.  No club fundraising cash deposits go through the ASB cabinet approval process as do purchase orders or check requests. They are handled directly by the ASB accountant under the over site and responsibility of the principal.

About MVUSD "clubs." In general regarding fundraising; it is and has always been mandatory for students to pay to participate in extra-curricular activities. Fundraising seldom covers even half the student expenses. Recently this practice has been deemed ILLEGAL in law suits against surrounding school districts. However at MVUSD, the money parents pay is shown on School Board Minutes as “Voluntary Parent Contributions,” but the child can't participate without paying the fee.  Therefore, it appears that participation is neither voluntary nor a contribution. (Handout, gift, or offering.) The courts have recently interpreted "fair and adequate" to mean that all public school activities requiring parents to pay money or monies for participation; Must be offered free to any and all eligible students. This includes extracurricular sports and any student clubs. It is a violation of the law to charge parents or force students to fund raise their share. In one discussion, the practice was deemed "double dipping," because parents pay for their child's education through taxation. The court's interpretation extended to include uniforms and protective gear.

In keeping with previous years, more than one MVUSD principal of late has been implicated in possible financial wrongdoings regarding student funds. While seldom investigated by MVUSD in any fair and through manner, the problem itself best documented under deposition (Williams v. MVUSD 2006) by former Director of Secondary Education, Kim Kruger. Who further admitted under oath that the problem was commonplace and that he himself had problems regarding student funds as principal at Valley View High School.

More recently, regarding a here to unnamed middle school and their ASB student fund for the 2009-2010 school year; it opened school with a ledger balance rollover from the previous year, somewhere in the vicinity of $115,000.  Which is extremely high and a strange discrepancy in the rollover for any student fund account. This is the ASB general fund to which all other clubs, excluding parent run booster clubs, deposit their fundraising cash, draw their money, pay their bills and obtain their club status. At the end of these first two months, this middle school's account ledger reportly dropped to just over $7,000.  The ASB ledger entries for this school,  during this time period, are said to not make sense nor add up to any where near $100,000. This example was but one school and one school year in Moreno Valley Unified School District.

Next report; ASB and Booster Clubs. The difference between the two and why both are ripe for cash skimming.

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Praetorian: spent 4 years as an ASB co-director for MVUSD and has 14 years as a middle school counselor.

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When Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart Is Asked To Tell The Truth, His Response Is Silence.

 •December 14, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Mayor Stewart had told the public that it is the responsibility of the City Staff and City Council to clarify any miss information made by the public during the publics portion of speaking during City Council meetings, however that doesn’t seem to be the case when that misinformation or outright lies are the making of the Council or the City Staff themselves.

mvgordie.com had made an email request to seek answers in a truthful nature from Mayor Richard Stewart in regards to public comments and statements made on the record during numerous city council meetings, however no response to the questions asked has been made by the Mayor.

Well I guess if you can’t answer truthfully, or the truth will go to prove that prior statements were in fact incorrect and or misleading, the best answer would be no answer at all.

Although the questions asked were problematic for the City, the public has a right to know the answers, after all the questions were $75 million questions.

Here are the questions which were asked:

Dear Mayor, 

With your last council statements of the need for City Staff and Council to keep the public informed of the truth, by correcting misstatements of facts etc. made by members of the public, maybe you could clarify a few points of interest to me as to some of the falsehoods, misleading statements and so on made by you and members of the City Staff.

Here are just a few which need addressing: 

1.       With the Mayor and City Manager publicly announcing a joint venture between The City of Moreno Valley and Highland Fairview for a mixed use medical complex along Nason Street, can you please tell the public where they can obtain a copy of this publicly announced agreement which we are moving forward through the spending of $75 million in roadway improvements? 

2.       It seems to have slipped my mind but the public hearing on this joint public private project was held when? 

3.       Why is it that the term medical corridor is being misused as to what actions were taken by the City Council on September 26^th, 2006. When that action only limited development in that area to developments which would be compatible with existing medical facilities in the area, and not that development in that area was to be for medical use only? 

4.       Why is it that the Mayor continues to rain down praise upon the City Manager for actions which were not of his making, but were directly out of the playbook of Highland Fairview, and merely appeased their (Highland Fairview’s) desires? Such as designating the eastern edge of Moreno Valley as Industrial (Distribution and Warehousing) Zone, which was the desire of Highland Fairview, and was plainly stated out within their EIR for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, in a letter submitted on their behalf by CB Richard Ellis, as well as converting the use of a portion of the Aqua Bella Specific Plan, to a mixed use medical complex, as stated by Iddo Benzeevi in a letter to the City of Moreno Valley in 2010 regarding Highland Fairview’s desire to keep its development agreement for Aqua Bella active during its annual review. 

5.       Why would the City enter into an agreement to the tune of 75 million dollars with Highland Fairview, when it wasn’t able to finance its Corporate Park Project, and needed to create several joint venture corporation with Skechers, in order for Skechers to seek the funding for the projects construction, with Highland Fairview only supplying the land for which the project sits? 

6.       Has the City even taken the time to see how and whom is paying off the sub-contractors for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, to see if Highland Fairview is even a financially solvent company?

Now did those questions seem to hard to address?

Here is a copy of the exact email sent:Click Image to Enlarge

What was interesting however was how the all references to the “Medical Complex” was avoided until the City Manager mentioned it, Mayor Stewart only referred to it a “The Thing.”

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November 8, 2011

Fontana Unified School District is the subject of a lawsuit...

The Fontana Unified School District is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the teachers union in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. The suit is demanding that the school district reinstate counselors that the district laid off. The teachers union alleges the counselors should be allowed to return to work on the basis of seniority.

The teachers union claims that the Fontana Unified School District has violated the California Education Code. According to the lawsuit, the district let 68 counselors go after the 2010-2011 school year, then created two new job titles for what was essentially the same position and attempted to hire 42 new counselors.

According to Pat Mazzulli, president of the Fontana Teachers Association, the new counselor positions are “substantially similar” to the old counseling positions. “Rather than follow procedure in the Education Code, the FUSD made reduction in force counselors reapply and interview for their jobs. FUSD attempted to hire outside the district as well," Mazzulli said. According to Mazzulli, the California Education Code requires that the laid-off counselors be given the opportunity to accept or refuse substitute slots before the jobs are offered to new applicants.

The Fontana Unified School District denies any wrongdoing and insists the new counseling positions are entirely different from the old ones. William Wu, assistant superintendent of human resources for the school district, said in an interview that "the district reviewed the comprehensive counseling program, tailored it to the needs of the district and then created new district positions to provide better and different student services…They are not the same as the comprehensive counseling program." Furthermore, said Wu, “The district is not in the business of violating peoples' rights. We are in the business of serving children, but we are not in the business of violating peoples' rights in the process.”

However, the school board has postponed plans to hire applicants for the new positions. According to Mazzulli, no trial date has been set.

IF ONLY YOU KNEW!

December 14, 2011
An accusation of "Criminal Nepotism" is currently being leveled at Moreno Valley USD TRUSTEES H. “RICK” Sayer and Jesus Holguin


THERE seems to be an increase in recent years. Hire a fool to run your school as long as they are related! Here we go again! Charges have been forwarded to the California Attorney General's Office claiming that  on October, 23, 2008, The aforementioned senior school board trustees collaborated in a willful misuse of the public trust appointing (5-0) a blood relative, son of the then HR Assist. Superintendent as the principal of their flagship secondary school. in a two minute process according to Board Minutes, at approximately 12:02 AM with no observers left, the Gavel Dropped and it slid by public scrutiny due to the late hour.  Everyone had gone home. The alleged actions could be a "violation of the public trust." 


Doing so placed the son under the direct supervision of his father and violated the civil rights of every candidate that applied.Given the circumstances if convicted each could be removed from office by the Attorney General.


During the supposed incidenct, HR and the board overlooked more than 12 more qualified, more experienced, women, minorities, and all older candidates. iT WAS LEAKED TO THIS REPORTER that the person placed as principal at Vista Heights Middle School, had the lowest interview scores of any applicant. There is a Four year statute of limitations on those explicitly involved if the allegations stand.

Morale at Vista is at its lowest and the leader is now seldom be found. An ex-felon school employee, stand in; runs Vista during the many periods the principal is off campus. 


Dozens of Parents Line Up to Dis-Enroll Students After Drug Ring Bust in Moreno Valley High School

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THE PROBLEM WITH MIKE RIOS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARREST OF HIS WIFE! AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR CHILD
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In or about Janurary, 2011. At Palm Middle School, an eigth grade student brings a loaded 9mm pistol to school with admitted intent to retaliate for being "Jumped" by two other students there. Although, tipped of the next day by a concerned parent, THE RIVERSIDE PRESS ENTERPRISE news paper refused to investigate. 'thee simply isn't enough advertising to be had in Moreno Valley.' The District covered it up. Life in Mo Val goes on as usual.

Moreno Valley teacher charged with sexual abuse

November 10, 2007| Maeve Reston | Times Staff Writer

A Moreno Valley middle school teacher was arrested on 75 counts, Friday after four men told police he had molested them in the mid-1990s when they were young teenagers.

Teacher suspected of sex with teenager arrested February 1, 2007 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A teacher from Rainbow Springs Elementary School on Wednesday was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old youth he met on a chat website, Moreno Valley police said. Terry Delanye Evans, 43, of Moreno Valley was held on suspicion of sexual battery and sodomy of a person under 18 years old. Evans was arrested after officers noticed two people in the backseat of a Mitsubishi Montero near Calle Luna and Avenida Anillo.

2nd Teacher FACES Molestation Case

August 29, 2003 | Lance Pugmire and Kristina Sauerwein, Times Staff Writers

The Moreno Valley Unified School District will launch an investigation to determine how a middle school teacher accused of molesting two boys, including a former student, remained on staff despite a similar case a decade earlier, district officials said Thursday. "The issue is that if the district was derelict, we need to know how and why," Supt. Nick Ferguson said. "What we're asking ourselves is how we can fill in the blanks. We are looking to explain this." Thomas Lee West Jr.

A 17-YEAR-OLD, CONNECTICUT GIRL DISAPPEARS A-MIST A RASH OF STRANGERS TRYING TO TALK TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS WALKING HOME

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Belair, Conneticut. Three incidents involving unfamiliar vehicles and children were reported to police last week.

After one of those incidents, the school system issued a message to individual schools as a precation. Police say the three incidents are not related and they do not believe anyone is targeting children in the area.

“Through a two-day period last Thursday and Friday, we had three reports of suspicious vehicles in different neighborhoods that do not appear to be connected whatsoever,” said Monica Worrell, a sheriff's office spokeswoman.

On Dec. 8 a man living in the Cool Springs II neighborhood in Bel Air called police after discussing an unknown vehicle with his neighbors, according to Worrell.

The man had heard from neighbors that two unidentified teenage girls were walking home from the bus in the area of Deer Valley Way and Tobacco Run Road when a man in a vehicle, either a white panel van or a beat-up pick-up truck, stopped and addressed the girls, Worrell said.

The neighbor reported the man in the vehicle asked the girls, "do you want to meet my dog?" according to Worrell.

The neighbor was unsure when the incident took place or who was involved, Worrell said.

In response to the incident, Churchville and Prospect Mill elementary schools sent messages to their school communities, according to Teri Kranefeld, a school system spokeswoman.

"On the advice of the authorities involved and erring on the side of caution, both schools chose to notify their entire school communities in order to increase awareness of the situation," Kranefeld wrote in an email.

The incident was the third of its kind reported within two days.

Before 6:57 a.m., on Dec. 9, a 16-year-old girl was walking to her bus stop near Estates Court in Bel Air, when two men in a white van stopped and asked if she needed a ride, according to police.

Around 3:25 p.m., Dec. 8, a man in a red, four-door car called, "Hey" to a boy walking along Schucks Road, according to police.

The boy walked away and the car left the area. The boy's parents reported the incident the following day.

“At this point, the Harford Count Sheriff’s Office does not believe there is an individual or individuals trying to abduct anyone in the communities described," Worrell said. "But, as always, if you have first hand knowledge of something suspicious in your neighborhood, report it."

Our Prayers go out the Moreno Valley Police Officer  when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle in that city. The deputy, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital, according to the Press Enterprise Newspaper.

The collision happened about 4:25 p.m. at Heacock Street and Webster Avenue, Donowho said. She had no information on the collision, which is being investigated by Highway Patrol officers.

The condition of the injured deputy was not known.

What would Dewey do?

This is COURAGE - YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY. As educators we are loosing the promise of Public Education at the hands of Very similar types of criminals!

Please understand this is a 70 year-old former U.S. Prosecutor! This man, Dr. Richard I Fine, PHd is my hero and model for my fights to come  with Moreno Valley USD which also is one of the most litigated school districts of it's size in the inland empire. For over 20 years the corruption spearheaded by the personalities of the COWARDS and BULLY BOYS RUNNING MVUSD'S HUMAN RESOURCES has rotted the structure of our district.  One of the former HR bully boys participated in felony misuse and theft of public funds as well as an act of agrregious criminal Nepotism as defined in California State Educ. Code. Another, HR thug, a convicted felon used an unregistered pistol firing at a car fleeing his house with his own daughter and her girlfriend inside the car. He was and is still employed and partially running a MVUSD middle school dealing with children daily, in spite his extraordinarily explosive temper. The current HR coward is mentioned as knowingly or unknowingly helping to cover up the theft  or miss use of  student funds which totals in the multiple $100,000s in cash  EVERY YEAR.

The man most responsible for this system wide cover-up, a man who lied more than once to me when I was looking for help with the apparent criminal activity I stumbled upon, was fired early this year then allowed to stay on with a double demotion to assistant principal. The Board was afraid that out and out firing would tempt him to tell all. 


Due to years of cover up i.e. elimination of positions with the power of financial oversight by some of the Superintendents and their assistants, including Bob Crank who was one of the key players, most area taxpayers are paying twice over for there child's education without knowing and much of that money is stolen in cash! Watch for the documentation and names to come.  BUT lets not forget the School Board who hires these people, among which contains a documented CHILD MOLESTER (who as part of his duties regularly visits elementary schools unescorted) and a yet to be charged criminal who used the power of the office for... well, come back and see. Another is on the payroll of a local Developer and member of the shadowy Jewish "Gold Trust" and its silent charter and members. An organization who's home is somewhere in Beverly Bills, CA. I have fired off a letter to the Jewish Defense League* asking point blank if they are associated... 

Did I mention the possible cover-up of an alleged murder of a 17 year-old student at the hands of a former school district employee? One of the alleged co-conspirators was working here until two years ago. I am still working on that. Time and the efficiency of the alleged cover-up has made it hard. Folks I lack the imagination to make this stuff up. I was as disbelieving as you probably are. Worse yet, there is more than eluded to herein.


Sincerely,
I praetorian

*The Jewish Defense League or JDL is a Jewish nationalist and far-right organization whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary".^[1] While the group asserts that it "unequivocally condemns terrorism", and claims to have a "strict no-tolerance policy against terrorism and other felonious acts,"^[2] it was described as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[3] in 2001, and as a hate group involved in "anti-Arab terrorism" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[4] According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the United States.^{[3] Outside the FBI, the}  Anti-Defamation League (ADL)^[2] and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).^[3 are the largest watch dog organizations monitoring hate groups in the U.S.