Fury erupted after it was revealed that education chiefs took their own children to Disney World using tickets intended for homeless students.
Six New York City Department of Education employees have been charged with using forged permits to take their children and grandchildren on lavish city-funded trips intended for the city’s most vulnerable children.
Linda M. Wilson, a Queens supervisor for the DOE’s Students in Temporary Housing program, allegedly took her two daughters on the trips, investigators said.
He was also reported to have encouraged his colleagues to join in the act of bringing their own family members along for the trip, according to reports. The New York Post.
According to sources, Wilson told staff to “lie to investigators” to cover up his deceptive actions.
Six New York City Department of Education employees have been charged with using forged permits to take their children and grandchildren on lavish city-funded trips intended for the city’s most vulnerable children.
“What happens here stays with us,” Wilson told his coworkers, The New York Post reported.
“She said everyone should stick with the same story that we didn’t bring our kids on the trip,” one employee told The Post.
“She told us to lie to the investigators.”
A single trip to Disney World cost a whopping $66,000 for about 50 adults and children.
The shocking news comes from a bomb report by the city’s Special Commissioner of Investigation into Schools, exposing a web of deception stretching from 2016 to 2019.
But the Magic Kingdom was just the beginning.
According to investigators, Linda M. Wilson, Queens supervisor of the DOE’s “Students in Temporary Housing” program, allegedly brought her two daughters on the trips. She also allegedly encouraged her colleagues to join in the act of bringing their own family members.
Multi-day trips to Washington DC, New Orleans, Boston and upstate New York were part of the plan.
One DOE educator was allegedly forced to “beg Wilson to let him add two of his students” to a trip to Disney World, while Wilson and his team brought their own family members along for the magical trip.
Naveed Hasan, a parent of a Manhattan public school student and a member of the city’s Education Policy Panel, expressed shock and disappointment.
“It’s totally inappropriate to take money intended for homeless students,” she told the outlet. “I’m in shock.”
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