Only 20 years! That's all it took for the P & C to read the entrails of the "education blob." That sobriquet, coined by then-Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, describes non-profit organizations feeding at the public trough in the name of advancing education.Saturday's paper finally provides coverage of the finances of Heritage Services, showing how (as I have stated previously in this blog) non-profit does not mean "non-profitable" to those involved. [SeeSex-ed nonprofit banks heavily on public funds ]
There's politics involved? Gasp!
Whether you are against abstinence-based sex education or not is immaterial here. What everyone can agree upon is that public funding of non-profits (and even for-profits) needs to have more oversight and transparency. Those who pay attention to CCSD's administration can easily rattle off the call letters of many--CEN, CEP, NTP, etc.--that remain shrouded in mystery as to effectiveness per dollar spent. Why do I suspect that Heritage is not alone in its important political connections, family business salaries, and lack of accountability to the taxpayers?
Maybe because I didn't fall of the turnip truck yesterday?
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I do not mean to quibble, but the P & C already published three or four artilces on these folks. MS. Magazine, the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, the Charleston City Paper, and The State also published articles on Heritage. To a "man" these articles have exposed the backroom deals, the lack of accountibility, and the waste in these programs. Some of the titles of the articles--"Pork for Prudes," "Haliburton of the Abstinence Set" and so on paint a pretty clear picture of how the Badgleys have taken up for a ride. What's more, this is not the only group that has done this to us. Sherry Few's company PIE has even managed to place its co-founder on the State School Board where she is pushing for the teaching of Creationism.
This is an easy one. On the board of this organization is Terrye Seckinger who, with her sister, runs half the organizations of this nature. Heck they run half of Columbia through their affiliation with their brother Senator Chip Campsen. The Campsen Twins want to run everything, but, want to run "for" nothing. When the governor doesn't put them on a board they run to their brother.
Didn't someone say previously that Bill Lewis is the neighbor of one of these people?
Yep...Bill Lewis now lives in a gated Mt. Pleasant community, just a few doors away from his old friend Ms. Badgley. Don't forget that she had an equally questionable (and I'm sure profitable) "abstinence" program for young female employees of the Naval Hospital when Cap'n Bill was in charge of Naval facilities, including the hospital.
Cindy (Campsen) Mosteller of the Christian Coalition is also a sibling.
What should be far more interesting to those on the political left (and even to some on the right), especially to those who find the Heritage group objectionable, it's the B-Team now sitting on the county school board who wrapped themselves in Blue in the last election that have allowed this kind of waste and graft to continue. Could it be just a little "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" to make political labels and fiscal integrity of no consequence?
There's too much OPM (other people's money) being spread around by CCSD and too many waiting to get a cut. CCSD is all about money, power and who gets to dispense them.
Terrye Seckinger is not on the Board of Heritage Community Services. Check out the 990 of the company which can be accessed at the Charleston Post & Courier site.
Yea, Anne Badgley did teach Character Training at the Naval Hospital. She based her program on Bill Gothard's teachings. This is the same guy that Dorchester County Sheriff Ray Nash follows. In fact, Nash and Badgley used to be in business together.
Check out http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/2/101614/4338 and http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7697827
Nancy McGinley listed this as one of the programs she contracted to participate in the now abandoned "A Plus" program at Burke. This group was revealed to be a scam 4 years ago, yet they are still involved with 19 Charleston County public schools. Why?
Heritage's presence in Charleston Schools for the last six years is in violation of state and federal law as Alice Paylor, Jerry Adams, Greg Myers, and Janet Rose well know. Ironically, this is not the doing of former Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson who despises Seckinger. Rather, it was engineered by Terrye Seckinger. Moreover, a presnet member of the CHE Committee is an employee of Heritage Community Services.
More on Badgley Scam and "peer-reviewed articles"
Anne and Gordon Badgley, who received $9 million in federal grants for their nonprofit, Heritage Community Services, also set up Badgley Enterprises to market and sell their abstinence-only curriculum, Heritage Keepers. While Heritage's IRS 990s are sketchy and marked by vague expenses, even a student loan repayment, they clearly show that the Badgleys pocketed $174,201 from the taxpayer-funded nonprofit by buying the curriculum from their own private company.
"The Abstinence Gluttons"
The Nation
Also see:
http://calladus.blogspot.com/2007/04/lets-examine-proof-that-abstinence-only.html
http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2007/06/blogging_for_sex_education.php
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