A Detroit principal gets a 15-month prison sentence. Nearly a dozen Detroit principals pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks from a school vendor.

Proclaiming that she “fell out of the grace of God,” a Detroit public schools principal this week pleaded guilty to accepting $194,000 in kickbacks from a vendor, reports the Detroit Free Press. But Clara Smith, 67, principal at Thirkell Elementary-Middle School, said the scam to submit phony invoices for rarely delivered supplies was the idea of the […]

Less than a month after Detroit principal Ronald Alexander was gifted $500K by The Ellen DeGeneres Show for his fledgling school, he along with 13 of his colleagues are facing federal charges in connection with a bribery scheme.