Just last week, Kelley Williams-Bolar was judged guilty of tampering with the records and stealing 30k's worth of money from the taxpayers in the region.
What had happened? She lied about where her two daughters lived, and said that they lived with her father, which was within the district of a significantly richer public school than the district they actually lived in, with the poorer school. To compare: New Trier and Evanston High. Evanston is not poor, from what I know, yet when you compare it to New Trier, it is perfectly understandable, the desire to send your children to the better school, to the New Trier, not to the Evanston.
But she lied. And she was caught. And the jury voted guilty on two counts of tampering with the records and sentenced her to 5 years in prison for sending her kids to the better school. The judge reduced her sentence to 10 days in prison, 2 years probation, and 80 hours community service.
She was only a few credit hours away from receiving her teaching certificate. She was working with special needs children. Now the state can arbitrarily decide to deny her the certificate because she is a convicted felon.
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