Kent Amos Paid Himself over $1 Million a Year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

Dear Kent, with that kind of logic, you sound as clean as a councilmember.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

Dear Kent, with that kind of logic, you sound as clean as a councilmember.

It's not like the compensation arrangements were approved by a fully independent and disinterested board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

Dear Kent, with that kind of logic, you sound as clean as a councilmember.

It's not like the compensation arrangements were approved by a fully independent and disinterested board.

And this is why DC politics and DC schools will always have an extra hurdle to actually making headway.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this guy tied to a mayoral candidate?

He had contributed to Muriel Bowser. The last I heard, she was "considering" returning the money. I don't know if that ever happened.

Just like Park Southern. Either Bowser is dirty herself or she is just wilfully blind to all of the cronyism and corruption around her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

The fact that Amos has hired Frederick Cooke, longtime consigliere to Marion Barry says volumes about the corrupt DC crowd he runs with and the seriousness of the trouble he is on. It's pretty likely that the Feds will be all over his tax filings as well. Yes, this crony bro is likely to do time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

The fact that Amos has hired Frederick Cooke, longtime consigliere to Marion Barry says volumes about the corrupt DC crowd he runs with and the seriousness of the trouble he is on. It's pretty likely that the Feds will be all over his tax filings as well. Yes, this crony bro is likely to do time.

I doubt it. Unfortunately, what he has done is not illegal. It may be unethical, but not illegal. They need to change the law and have restrictions. I would be happy for them to fix this loophole and make it difficult for the for-profit charters to do abuse the system they way they have been doing it for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

Dear Kent, with that kind of logic, you sound as clean as a councilmember.

It's not like the compensation arrangements were approved by a fully independent and disinterested board.

If you actually think that this was approved by a fully independent and disinterested board, then you and I have very different definitions of "fully independent and disinterested".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should he go to jail...? He did not steal the funds, he is not embezzling the funds, he sort a salary and it was approved. Get a life. The public education is free not the work.

Dear Kent, with that kind of logic, you sound as clean as a councilmember.

It's not like the compensation arrangements were approved by a fully independent and disinterested board.

If you actually think that this was approved by a fully independent and disinterested board, then you and I have very different definitions of "fully independent and disinterested".

we have no fully independent and disinterested board. They are all on the make and in bed with one another.

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Anonymous wrote:Xerox salesman turned charter entrepreneur. This guy has zero background in education which says it all. What a crook! DC needs to make turning over the management of non-profits that are funded by taxpayers like charter schools to for profit management companies illegal.

Kent Amos should go to jail. What a disgrace. For shame.

No background in education is hardly unusual. Andre Agassi and Deion Sanders have both started for profit charter management companies. The Amos example is not an exception by any means. Besides, the biggest advocates for charter schools are billionaires who probably haven't stepped foot in a public school.

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Anyone who doesn't believe there's also quite a few gravy trains in DCPS (via contracts, et cetera) is pretty naive....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Xerox salesman turned charter entrepreneur. This guy has zero background in education which says it all. What a crook! DC needs to make turning over the management of non-profits that are funded by taxpayers like charter schools to for profit management companies illegal.

Kent Amos should go to jail. What a disgrace. For shame.

No background in education is hardly unusual. Andre Agassi and Deion Sanders have both started for profit charter management companies. The Amos example is not an exception by any means. Besides, the biggest advocates for charter schools are billionaires who probably haven't stepped foot in a public school.

I forgot to add billionaires.... Stepped foot in a public school
As adults.

I agree with PP about him going to jail. Amos worked the system. The bigger problem is the system, Amos is a businessman who exploited it. Up until that Thompsen character started to be investigated he exploited the district's Medicaid system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe there's also quite a few gravy trains in DCPS (via contracts, et cetera) is pretty naive....

OK... let's fix all of them. Or at least fight back as best we can...

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Anonymous wrote:
I forgot to add billionaires.... Stepped foot in a public school
As adults.

I doubt too many billionaires stepped foot in a public school as children either.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I forgot to add billionaires.... Stepped foot in a public school
As adults.

I doubt too many billionaires stepped foot in a public school as children either.

Warren Buffet did! A product of DCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I forgot to add billionaires.... Stepped foot in a public school
As adults.

I doubt too many billionaires stepped foot in a public school as children either.

Warren Buffet did! A product of DCPS

Yes and he sent his son to public school in omaha, central high (my alma mater!)