Dallas ISD Faulted for Using Fake Social Security Numbers
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Tawnell D. Hobbs, Dallas Morning News, November 14, 2008
Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly.
Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state’s educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires, most of whom were brought in to teach bilingual classes.
The practice was described in an internal report issued in September by the district’s investigative office, which looked into the matter after receiving a tip. The report said the Texas Education Agency learned of the fake numbers in 2004 and told DISD then that the practice “was illegal.”
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Stopgap approach
The investigative report, obtained by The News through a records request, found “that the inappropriate procedure of assigning false SSNs has been systemic for several years” within DISD’s alternative certification program, which prepares new teachers for state certification when they don’t have traditional credentials.
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The fake numbers were assigned as a stopgap to expedite the hiring process, the report says. The numbers were supposed to serve as temporary identification numbers until employees received real Social Security numbers. Once employees got the real numbers, they were supposed to tell district officials so the fake ones could be replaced.
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The district’s investigative unit, called the Office of Professional Responsibility, began looking into the fake numbers after the Texas Education Agency’s division of educator investigations advised the unit in July that it had discovered the district issuing false numbers in 2004.
That year, the TEA division became aware of the practice when DISD faxed copies of about 100 new Social Security Administration cards for foreign citizens—most of whom had been assigned district-issued numbers—and asked TEA to replace the old numbers, according to the investigative report. The state office told DISD at the time that it’s illegal to make up Social Security numbers and pass them off as legitimate, the report says.
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Email Tawnell D. Hobbs at tdhobbs@dallasnews.com.
(Posted on November 14, 2008)
Comments
Noting surprising here. The DISD has been a corrupt failure for many years. Blacks and Mexicans are at each other’s throats over who gets first dibs on looting the system. White enrollment dropped below 10% in the mid-1990s; it’s likely down to ~5% now.
Posted by Strider at 5:57 PM on November 14
Why is anyone upset at the Dallas School District? After all, we’re always told that our diversity is our strength, and that it’s the most important virtues. The Dallas ISD simply wanted more of what everyone says is paramount. Faking SSNs in the number was just the occasional broken egg that you encounter while making the omelet of equality.
Posted by Question Diversity at 6:07 PM on November 14
When black run school districts aren’t falsifying test scores for blacks they’re falsifying social security numbers for illegal aliens. They’re accomplishments at educating are really dismal, but, not to worry, if they get fired they can get a nice business going making counterfeit I.D.’s.
Is it any wonder almost every every black run city in the US is on the brink of destruction, and almost every black run country in Africa is almost as bad? Take Rwanda for example, if it keeps plummeting downward it will be as bad as Detroit or Los Angeles.
And so far as violence is concerned, last month Iraq and Afghanistan had almost as much gun violence as New Orleans.
Posted by mitch at 10:04 PM on November 14
When as an FBI agent investigating the CPUSA effort to convert the United States into a Soviet form of government with the aid of Soviet Communist monetary assistance as late as 1980s I remember the following; when pointing out the purges and other short comings to CP members the standard answer was you have to break eggs to make an omlet. The justification for violating the law utilizing false Social Security numbers that you have to break an occasional egg on the way to achieving equality is ridculous. The end does not justify the means nor does it speak well of the character of the corrupt officials practicing it.
Posted by Peter C. Clemente at 12:03 PM on November 16