A new report from the particular commissioner of investigations for the New York Metropolis College District alleges that a number of faculty staff went on Disney World journeys meant for homeless college students.
The report claims that the workplace of Anastasia Coleman obtained a grievance in March 2019 indicating that Linda Wilson, the regional supervisor for Queen College students in Short-term Housing (STH), introduced members of her household on “multiple-day, out-of-town area journeys” paid by grants, that had been meant to “function enrichment alternatives, or as incentives for bettering attendance or different educational achievements’ for homeless college students.”
Wilson allegedly used an outdoor vendor to e-book “busing, meals, lodging, and all different itinerary gadgets” journeys to varied areas, together with Disney World in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, as a substitute of via the New York Metropolis Division of Training as a result of “there’s much less oversight of community-based organizations.”
She and 5 different STH workers members — Program Supervisor Shaquieta Boyd, Household Assistant Joanne Castro, Household Assistant Mishawn Jack, Household Assistant Virgen Ramos, and Group Coordinator Maria Sylvester — allegedly went on the journeys with their youngsters, grandchildren and companions.
“Wilson would decide which workers members might attend the journey, assign college students to every workers member to chaperone throughout the journey, then fill the spots allegedly assigned for these college students with relations of the workers,” the report claims, noting that journeys happened from 2016 to 2019.
The report additional alleges that Wilson and the workers members would then “full permission slips utilizing the data of homeless college students, then log off on the paperwork because the mother and father of these college students.”
Coleman ended her report by calling for the six people to be fired and asking the New York Metropolis Division of Training to “search reimbursement for all bills incurred by the DOE on the a part of those that wrongly benefitted from these actions.”
Though the report was accomplished in January 2023, it was first made public on Monday, Sept. 9.
The particular commissioner’s workplace instructed NPR that “it’s the common follow of [the special commissioner of investigation] to withhold publication of our studies whereas administrative actions are pending.”
Based on the Associated Press, citing New York Metropolis Division of Training spokesperson Jenna Lyle, “All workers recognized on this report are not employed by New York Metropolis Public Faculties.”
Wilson instructed the New York Post that she was not fired from her place however “retired.” She additionally denied bringing her two daughters on the journeys and referred to as the investigation from the particular commissioner’s workplace “a witch hunt.”
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PEOPLE reached out to the New York Metropolis Division of Training, New York State Division of Training and Disney, however didn’t instantly hear again.