If the folks in the south suburbs are miffed over local school board politics, wait until they get a load of this: Wake County public schools will get more than $240,000 from the sale of disgraced House Speaker Jim Black's land in Matthews, according to News & Observer reporter T. Keung Hui.
Black turned over 9.5 acres in Mecklenburg County to help settle his fine for a 2007 state corruption conviction, Hui reports. The sale was supposed to net $500,000; in reality it's going for just under $300,000.
So why can't Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools claim the fine, based on the location of the land and the origin of the busted lawmaker? According to the article, Wake won out because the prosecution was handled in Raleigh.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Wake schools get money from Meck corruption
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WOW~! Another loss to Wake County on CMesS.This is nothing compared to the loss of quality teachers to Wake county from Meck.
Miffed over the school board politics?
If the situation were reversed, one could only imagine, the stories, and the tone of said stories, this writer, and the Observer, would unleash.
Wrong. As long as this board is in charge, I don't care if CMS ever gets another cent Seems that Raleigh can play politics better than Mecklenburg. More power to them. At least the voters in that county got fed up with the direction their school board was taking,
I lost track of the assignment plan in Wake County. What's the latest?
Hey, at least our student placement office consistently scores High Above Average on the Pliable Statistics EOC exam.
We got the Broad Prize.
$300,000 for 9.5 acres? I don't see how that can be right. The county says my 1/3 acre lot in a floodplain is worth $170,000.
Broad Prize or Booby Prize?
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