«We write because we are increasingly concerned about the role you are playing in the Trump Administration and the possibility that you are breaking federal conflict of interest laws,» the seven senators wrote in the letter, seen by Reuters. (fortune.com)
In an egregious case of abuse, the former superintendent of tiny Mountain Empire Unified School District in San Diego County pleaded guilty last year to violating conflict of interest laws for personally taking a cut of the oversight fees and creating a consulting firm to serve the 13 independent study charters, operating outside of Mountain Empire, that his district approved. (edsource.org)
«There's been a lot of conversation over the past several legislative cycles around which conflict of interest laws apply to public charter schools — which are funded with taxpayer dollars,» explained Myrna Castrejon, senior vice president over government affairs at the California Charter Schools Association. (k-12daily.org)