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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/csu-mulls-pay-raises-3-new-presidents-despite-budget-troubles-17073\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time the California State University Board of Trustees is discussing a possible tuition increase and across-the-board pay cuts, it will also consider pay raises for three new campus presidents using foundation funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 237px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sfst.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-61450\" title=\"sfst\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sfst-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"119\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: San Francisco State University\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under compensation \u003ca href=\"http://calstate.edu/bot/agendas/jul12/UFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">proposals [PDF]\u003c/a> the board will take up Tuesday, new CSU Northridge President Dianne Harrison and newly appointed CSU San Bernardino President Tomás Morales would receive 10 percent more in pay than their predecessors – the maximum amount allowable under the university’s newest executive compensation policy approved in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third college leader, new San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong, would receive 9 percent more than his predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CSU trustees have been heavily criticized for their executive compensation policies since last summer, when San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman got a pay package totaling $100,000 more than the previous president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the trustees have made some changes to the policies. 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Harrison and Morales would get the full 10 percent available, while Wong would come very close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wei Ming Dariotis, associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and president of that university’s chapter of the California Faculty Association, said that while she’s very optimistic about Wong as a leader, the pay raise feels like a “slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University would pay new president Leslie Wong $325,000, including $26,251 from the San Francisco State University Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“As a public institution, I would think that we would be looking at folks who define the value of their work not by how well they are compensated but by the good they're able to do through the kind of institution they are serving,” Dariotis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp said the executive compensation policy allows the university to recruit competitively while also being mindful of the economic situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have to recruit from a national pool for the best and brightest not only in presidents, but in faculty and in staff,” Uhlenkamp said. “Regardless of whether your salary's frozen, and there's a supplement that increases your salary, these individuals are being paid less than what they would make on the market outside the state of California or not working for the CSU.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compensation proposals come as the trustees are talking about what they might cut if voters do not enact Gov. 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San Francisco State University will pay him $325,000, including $26,251 from the San Francisco State University Foundation, plus the same housing and car allowances as Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wong, that’s about $123,000 above what he was making at Northern Michigan University, where the base salary totaled $201,995, although Wong also received $65,000 per year in deferred compensation in Michigan, according to a university spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco State University Foundation agreed to provide Wong up to $30,000 per year, according to a board \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/398847-sfsu-foundation-resolution-july-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">resolution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Harrison, Morales and Wong, a fourth new president, California Maritime Academy President Thomas Cropper, will take home 3 percent less than the previous president, William Eisenhardt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/scrutiny-oakland-church-school-grows-16725\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67187\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/St.Andrew_08_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church in West Oakland\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67187\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Michael Short/California Watch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scrutiny of a West Oakland church school accused of abuse by parents and students is growing, with BART officials now questioning the school's right to solicit for donations in stations and state officials investigating whether federal funds should have gone to school leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest actions follow an ongoing investigation by California Watch and CBS 5 into St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church and private school, where students as young as 9 say they were required to ask for money for hours after school and federal funding appears to be based on inflated enrollment numbers. The Oakland school board also has \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/oakland-unified-board-orders-investigation-church-school-16635\" target=\"_blank\">launched an investigation\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>after a rancorous school board meeting earlier this month, where parents alleged mistreatment of students at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should not be in the position of allowing children to be exploited in any kind of way,\" said BART Director Lynette Sweet. \"An abundance of caution tells us we should stop (the soliciting).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church leader Robert Lacy Jr. objected to the continued scrutiny of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/752.html\" target=\"_blank\">school\u003c/a> his father, the pastor Robert Lacy, founded in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now it sounds like it’s getting into harassing individuals that aren’t bothering anyone,\" he said in an interview. \"It sounds like you’re trying to defame the character of the school and the church and everything that has to do with St. Andrew.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has routinely granted permits allowing St. Andrew to solicit donations, and staff previously defended that action to its board citing free speech rights. But Sweet and Director Robert Raburn now are asking BART's lawyers to determine what leeway the agency has to restrict the soliciting activities of St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By all accounts, this is not a group that we want to promote on public property,\" Raburn wrote in an email to California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raburn said he became concerned last year when he saw unsupervised St. Andrew students asking for money at the Fruitvale BART after dark. Sweet also grew alarmed, she said, after seeing the soliciting continue day after day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART staff responded to the board in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372850-bart-memo.html\" target=\"_blank\">December memo\u003c/a> that \"the speech activities are protected on the grounds that the Church is a religious organization engaged in charitable solicitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew students have been raising money for years, but it's \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">unclear\u003c/a> where the money is going. The pastor drives a Cadillac Escalade while the school building needs repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch recently uncovered \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of abuse\u003c/a> at the hands of Robert Lacy Jr., who teaches at the school and sometimes takes students to solicit at BART stations. Former students said he hit and threw things at children in his classes. Lacy Jr. has said he doesn't have \"any history\" of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet said the staff decision to keep monthly permits flowing to St. Andrew was \"the wrong thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It didn’t appear that they were raising money for a legitimate cause,\" she said. \"It also appeared that they were out there too long – they were being abused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that as a public agency, BART has to issue the permits \"on a level playing field.\" She said BART police monitored the situation and did not observe any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART takes children’s safety very seriously,\" Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372852-bart-permit-june-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">this month's permit\u003c/a> to Andrew Lacy, another son of the pastor. The permit allows fundraising every day from 5 to 7 p.m. at seven BART stations in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy has a history of illegal activity. He pleaded guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">felony welfare fraud\u003c/a> in 2004, according to court records. And, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372858-andrew-lacy-2002-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">police records\u003c/a> newly obtained by California Watch, he was also arrested in 2002 on charges of injuring his girlfriend with a club. He was convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in that case, which was later dismissed after he satisfied the conditions of his probation, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART does not conduct a criminal background check before issuing permits, Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>In a separate custody court case this year, the father of Andrew Lacy's stepdaughter – then a student at St. Andrew – accused Lacy of threatening to slap the girl if she didn't solicit at BART stations. The girl’s mother denied the allegations in court filings, but the judge gave primary custody to the father, specifying that the girl not engage in soliciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials plan to investigate whether the Oakland Unified School District mismanaged federal funds as it distributed money to St. Andrew teachers. California Watch found that the school's reported enrollment numbers, used to determine its level of federal funding, far exceeded the number of students who actually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified distributes Title I money based on the number of low-income students and Title II money based on total enrollment. The district uses enrollment figures reported to the state to allocate Title II funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew reported to the state it had 195 students this year, including 61 low-income students, while former students said fewer than 30 attended. An Oakland fire inspector observed 15 to 20 students and determined that the classrooms could fit no more than 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a federal program to improve teaching and help struggling students at both public and private schools, Oakland Unified allocated at least $50,000 to benefit St. Andrew this school year and paid out $173,500 over the previous four years. Most of the money went to Lacy Jr. and Carrie Banks, a St. Andrew teacher who married the pastor in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified spokesman Troy Flint said the state is responsible for making sure the numbers are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just makes common sense,\" Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Education Department spokesman Paul Hefner said the state does not check the enrollment figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local school districts, he said, “need to take steps to verify those numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hefner said the state is moving up a planned routine review of the district's distribution of Title I and II funds from January\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to September because of the controversy. The review, he said, will also look into whether the money should have gone to Lacy Jr. and Banks, since the law requires it be used for consultants who are \"independent\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could be on the hook for refunding any misspent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the district allocated $1.2 million to benefit Oakland private school students and teachers during the 2011-12 school year, according to district records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Erica Perez, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/accrediting-agency-questions-culinary/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the agencies that accredits San Francisco's California Culinary Academy is questioning the veracity of the college's reported job placement rates – ordering the school's parent company to provide audited placement data by September in order to maintain its accreditation status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68693\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges issued the order to Career Education Corp., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based for-profit college company, earlier this month. California Culinary Academy is one of 10 schools included in the directive, according to a recent company filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks another round of scrutiny of the claims Career Education makes about job opportunities students have after attending its schools. Career Education agreed in 2010 to pay $40 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in which former students said the California Culinary Academy had misled them with its claim that 97 percent of graduates got jobs in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also claimed that California Culinary Academy deceived students by promising robust career placement services that never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68730\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/chef.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-68730\" title=\"chef\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/chef-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the New York attorney general issued a subpoena requesting information on several aspects of the company's operations, including its employment outcomes. Also last year, another accrediting agency, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, issued a show cause order \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/accreditor-seeks-more-accurate-job-placement-data-profits-14644\" target=\"_blank\">demanding\u003c/a> that the company provide more accurate job placement data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of that inquiry and the new data submitted by Career Education, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046568/000119312512225693/d323889d10q.htm\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> earlier this year that 85 percent of the Career Education schools it accredits – 60 out of 71 campuses – fell below the agency's 65 percent placement rate standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools did not revoke the schools' accreditation but is implementing additional oversight of the 60 campuses. The agency placed four of these campuses on probation for posting job placement rates of 40 percent or below. Those campuses are Sanford-Brown College in Indianapolis; Sanford-Brown College in Milwaukee; Sanford-Brown Institute in Landover, Md.;and the online campus of the International Academy of Design & Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also as a result of that probe, Career Education plans to post its revised job placement rates on each school's website in the next couple of weeks, company spokesman Tony Mitchell said. Mitchell said he did not know whether the California Culinary Academy's rates would be revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the current show cause order could lead the accrediting agency to revoke the colleges' accreditation, such actions are relatively rare. From May 2011 to May 2012, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges issued 41 show cause orders and revoked accreditation at seven schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michale S. 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That amount is expected to more than double to about $500 million annually by 2015-16, according to UC officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university also faces skyrocketing costs for its retiree health care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unfunded liability for its retiree health program was $14.6 billion in July 2011. UC is expected to spend $270 million on retiree health care this year, and that amount is expected to rise significantly over the next several years, according to UC documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While UC seeks to pay its retirement bills, the system is wrestling with the loss of $750 million in state funding this past year. And it could lose another $250 million in the coming academic year if voters reject Gov. 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Under one scenario, in-state tuition would increase by 6 percent to $12,923, roughly double what students paid five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a substantial boost in state funding, UC will need to find other ways to raise revenue or cut costs to pay for promised retirement benefits, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``This is a very significant challenge to the UC system,'' said UC Executive Vice President Nathan Brostrom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC officials want the state to make pension contributions, as it does for the California State University and California Community Colleges systems. But the state, facing its own financial problems, hasn't provided money for UC pensions for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine student Traci Ishigo said she also wants the state to help cover the UC's escalating pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Students shouldn't have to compromise any more on the quality of our education,'' Ishigo said. ``I don't want to see the regents make any decisions where they have to place more burden on the backs of students to cover the rising pension costs.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar stories are playing out across the country as public pensions overwhelm the budgets of city, state and federal governments grappling with a surge of retirements, stock-market declines and years of mismanagement and underfunding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``It's pretty clear what happens when you don't pay your bills for a long time. They eventually catch up with you,'' said Jeffrey R. 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The funding was based on the school’s claim that it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357631-2011-12-affidavit.html\" target=\"_blank\">195\u003c/a> students, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/365536-title-i-students.html\" target=\"_blank\">61\u003c/a> low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the previous four school years, Oakland Unified paid a total of $173,500 in federal funds to benefit St. Andrew based on its enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet former students and their parents said the school had no more than 30 students, and sometimes much fewer. An Oakland fire inspector said the school isn’t allowed to have more than 58 people in its classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents said they paid up to $400 per month for tuition, while others said the school was free – as long as their children raised funds at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate interviews, several former students said the pastor's son Robert Lacy Jr., and a teacher and church leader, would hit, kick and throw things at students. Nine-year-old Corey Butler said Lacy Jr. hit him with a belt on his behind and across his hand. Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. Robert said when we die – he already know we’re going to die before him – at our funeral, he’s going to go up to our parents and tell them not to cry because we’re going to go to hell,” Holt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 13-year-old sister, La’asia Holt, said the elder Lacy told her, “If I go home and tell another lie to my mother, he gonna beat me himself,” she said. “I felt threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siblings traded stories of abuse at St. Andrew as they sat with their mother, Yolanda Bailey, in their West Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey pulled her children out of the school this year because she said the Lacys insulted her children and didn’t send home report cards, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59PR0r99U&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">The elder Lacy\u003c/a> did not respond to an e-mail and letter sent to the school requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt said she witnessed Lacy Jr. throw objects – like a roll of duct tape – at other students, telling her once, “You might want to duck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genius Wesley said he saw Lacy Jr. strike other students on their heads with his hand. Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Butler said he saw Lacy Jr. abuse other students, too. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kicks people. He kicked the big kids,” Butler said. Butler’s mother took him and his siblings out of St. Andrew this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t like it at all,” said Genius Wesley, a 9-year-old whose father pulled him out of the school this year. “The teacher was mean, and he always yelled at people. He hit this little kid all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KalNvN\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a> declined to answer questions about inflated enrollment numbers and said the students’ statements about abuse are not credible, calling them hearsay. He said the students represent a small sample of those who attended St. Andrew and indicated that their families may be disgruntled for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we just didn’t give everything that they wanted us to give, money and stuff like that. Maybe that’s the problem,” he said. “Maybe we wouldn’t excuse their unexcused absences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked directly whether he hits children, Lacy Jr. said, “I don’t have any history of ever doing anything like that.” Asked whether he does it currently, Lacy Jr. again responded, “I don’t have a history of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State and local officials are careful to note that the federal funding doesn’t go directly to the school, but rather to “independent” consultants to provide services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage. I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Troy Flint, Oakland Unified School District spokesman\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most of the federal money for St. Andrew went to contracts for \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Banks\u003c/a> – who married the elder pastor in 1999 and teaches kindergarten through third grade – and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lacy Jr.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thalia Brown, a former kindergarten teacher at St. Andrew, said the church is more like a cult, where everyone fears and obeys the pastor. Brown has two children with Lacy Jr., but said about the school: “The nicest thing I can say is my son will never go there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have God in your ear telling you that Rev. Lacy is your spiritual leader and you should listen to him,” said Brown, who is divorced from Lacy Jr. “No one ever is going to step up to that man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the federal funding, Brown said, “Rev. Lacy, he knows how to work it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the money is doled out based on the number of low-income students at the school, and the rest is based on total enrollment. Since 2003, with one exception, the school \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/si/ps/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> to the state Department of Education that it had 195 students – 15 in each grade. The exception was the 2008-09 school year, when the school reported 265 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the school reported to the state a low number of graduates: only 12 over the past four school years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite claiming nearly 200 attendees, an inspection by the state Department of Social Services in March – to determine whether the school was also running a day care center – \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357625-dept-of-social-services-inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> 14 children at the school one day and 12 the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last month, from 7:45 to 9:45, California Watch observed about six children trickle into the church and nine more who were dropped off in the school van.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, one boy showed up at 8:20 and got into the van, which then left. The church doors remained locked – an adult who showed up couldn’t get in – until the van returned at 9:45 a.m. with half a dozen children. School starts at 8 a.m., according to a packet of school rules provided to one parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Gervasoni, an Oakland Fire Department inspector, visited the school last month in response to a citizen complaint. He said Lacy Jr. told him the school had 23 students but fluctuates up to 40. Gervasoni observed 15 to 20 students, he said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366330-fire-inspection-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined\u003c/a> that the fire code would allow no more than 58 people for all of the classrooms combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt, a 12-year-old whose mother took her out of the school in February, counted a total of 25 classmates by name, including several who were later pulled out by concerned parents and a few who are young children of the elder pastor. Corbitt said the students were lumped together into three classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between reported numbers and reality appears to go back for years. Gervasoni remembers seeing very few students at the school when he inspected it in 2007. As part of a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004, a church representative said the school had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357633-bankruptcy-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more than 20 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to say how many students attend St. Andrew. “That’s private information,” he said. “It’s disclosed to individuals that send a valid request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is I teach here every day,” he said. “And I give my time for the students and I care for these students that are here, and I give the education that I’ve gained so that these students can have an education and opportunities that these students didn’t have in the schools that they went to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, no authorities have taken the school to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesman with Oakland Unified, said the district is a “pass-through” organization for federal funds and isn’t provided the resources to check on every school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these allegations are true, then obviously, that’s something we would put an end to because that would be an abuse of public funds,” Flint said in an interview with CBS 5 and California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said someone should do an investigation, but the district doesn’t have the authority or capacity to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we are not given regulatory powers to the degree needed to police these schools, it does allow for loopholes and for certain unscrupulous people to take advantage,” Flint said. “I can’t say for sure that’s what happened in this case, but there are a lot of suspicious indicators, and I do think it warrants a second look.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint suggested that the state Department of Education would have jurisdiction. But the state doesn’t verify the numbers either, said Jane Ross, education programs consultant for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are filing with the superintendent of public instruction under penalty of perjury, but we don’t have the authority to challenge the information,” Ross said. She said she didn’t know who would have that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the district’s Board of Education has approved contracts paying Banks $100 per hour to conduct teacher training and Lacy Jr. $40 per hour to provide additional instruction for struggling students. Neither Banks nor Lacy Jr. has a teaching credential, and none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the 2010-11 school year, Banks received a $19,500 contract and Lacy Jr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357640-lacy-jr-2010-11-ousd-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned\u003c/a> $12,440. Last year, Lacy Jr. also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366453-computers-invoice.html\" target=\"_blank\">invoiced\u003c/a> the district for $100 per hour for 30 hours to fix computers for student use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Nownes, who oversees private school funding for Oakland Unified, said he accepts the enrollment numbers provided by the school without further investigation. Nownes said he reviews the school’s funding plan in meetings with Lacy Jr. and visited the school more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They run a compliant program to the best of my knowledge,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nownes defers to each school to pick its preferred instructors. Nownes said he looks to make sure the instructors have a college degree, though none is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Former students claim abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six former students agreed to talk to California Watch about their experiences at St. Andrew. Accompanied by their parents in separate interviews, they described a pattern of verbal and physical abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 14-year-old brother, Le’Gerrius Holt, said Lacy Jr. – who goes by Rev. Robert at school – hit him over the head with a book in class because he had called the teacher a “fool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rev. Robert said when we die – he already know we’re going to die before him – at our funeral, he’s going to go up to our parents and tell them not to cry because we’re going to go to hell,” Holt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler’s 13-year-old sister, La’asia Holt, said the elder Lacy told her, “If I go home and tell another lie to my mother, he gonna beat me himself,” she said. “I felt threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siblings traded stories of abuse at St. Andrew as they sat with their mother, Yolanda Bailey, in their West Oakland home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bailey pulled her children out of the school this year because she said the Lacys insulted her children and didn’t send home report cards, among other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd59PR0r99U&feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">The elder Lacy\u003c/a> did not respond to an e-mail and letter sent to the school requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt said she witnessed Lacy Jr. throw objects – like a roll of duct tape – at other students, telling her once, “You might want to duck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genius Wesley said he saw Lacy Jr. strike other students on their heads with his hand. Wesley also said he saw Lacy Jr. throw things at students, including a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He threw it at someone else, and it almost hit me,” Wesley said, on the phone with his father. “He said, ‘I got good aim; it wasn’t going to hit you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, when Lacy Jr. wouldn’t let Wesley go to the bathroom, Wesley ended up urinating on himself in class, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Charlos Stewart Jr., now 12, said Lacy Jr. locked him in a room upstairs in the church as punishment for talking. Stewart had to go to the bathroom and banged on the door, but nobody came. Stewart said he broke the lock but was caught and put inside with a bigger padlock, despite begging to go to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart went to the window, sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping from the second story, he said. Fearing that he would die, the boy turned around but slipped and fell to the ground, breaking a foot in several places, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Catherine Joiner, took him out of the school after the incident. “I felt so bad,” Joiner said. “I couldn’t even look at the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has no record of any complaints about the school, said spokeswoman Lea Rubio. The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Lacy Jr. took issue with critical questions about the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there any reason you don’t post the positives about this school,” he asked, “in terms of its longevity in the community and all the families that have received aid from this school, food and clothes? Why don’t you ask about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>History of benefits fraud\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former students said Lacy Jr. often left his class for hours or showed up very late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the time, he wasn’t there,” Corbitt said. “Like, he wouldn’t get there till, like, 11 o’clock, so we would just be waiting for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said they hardly ever got to go outside and play or use the computers that were fixed with federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357639-lacy-jr-resume.html\" target=\"_blank\">résumé\u003c/a> Lacy Jr. provided the district states that he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and was a candidate for a master’s degree, though it also lists a 2010 doctorate. It doesn’t specify any schools where he earned the degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Thalia Brown, said Lacy Jr. attended CSU Hayward and received subsequent degrees from St. Andrew Theological & Academic University – which is run by the Lacys out of the church building. CSU Hayward, now called CSU East Bay, confirmed that a Robert Lacy attended from 1996 to 2000 but showed no records of a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. declined to answer questions about his education. California Watch asked Lacy Jr. on two occasions to provide names of St. Andrew supporters who could speak to the school’s positive attributes. He did not provide any names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are discrediting the institution that’s in a community where they don’t receive any help that they need to have,” he said. “In the West Oakland area, if the (public) school system was in any way helping the students, we wouldn’t have the problems we have in West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s university advertises a \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/13401/15343.html\" target=\"_blank\">cornucopia\u003c/a> of degrees but does not have authorization to operate from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education, said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs. After learning about the university from California Watch, the bureau is investigating whether it is violating the law, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacy family has a history of benefits fraud, records show. The elder Lacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357644-lacy-amended-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2007 to a misdemeanor for taking $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father, who had died. The pastor also received $22,000 in other government assistance for which he was ineligible, according to the proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357645-lacy-plea-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s 37-year-old son who helps with the school and soliciting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to felony welfare fraud in 2004, according to court records. County authorities found that he made false statements and withheld information about his income to receive $13,500 in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, the state Employment Development Department obtained a $3,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357646-edd-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\">judgment\u003c/a> against him for receiving excess benefits due to fraud or misrepresentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/KYtu9f\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Andrew\u003c/a>, as he is known by students, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lacys called smooth talkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most weekday evenings, St. Andrew’s smartly dressed students politely ask for donations at BART stations, while \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">some say\u003c/a> they are made to beg under threat of punishment or bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pastor owns a Cadillac Escalade Platinum Edition, which retailed for about $70,000 in 2006, the year he bought it. Wearing a suit and fedora, the elder Lacy sometimes waits in the background as the children ask for money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some parents objected to the street soliciting, others went along with it after school officials told them it was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents described the Lacys as smooth talkers who persuaded them to enroll their children. They were drawn to St. Andrew because they thought a small, Christian private school would be better than Oakland public schools. Some said their children were struggling and needed an alternative school environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Andrew (Lacy) was telling me it was one of the most accredited schools in Oakland and the grades were the highest,” said Yolanda Bailey. “It’s like they go out there and recruit people, mostly single women with children having trouble, who live in the bad neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew had claimed on its website to be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International. An association official said the school was a member – not accredited. After questions from California Watch, the association contacted the school, and St. Andrew then changed its website. Another part of the website still \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/899/13848.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims\u003c/a> the school is accredited but doesn’t specify by whom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1978, the Lacys have run St. Andrew out of a historically black church built in 1920 and declared an Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357649-landmark-designation.html\" target=\"_blank\">landmark\u003c/a>. The striking orange-and-white façade contrasts with the dilapidated side and back of the building, marked by peeling, discolored paint and boarded windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gervasoni, the fire inspector, said the building is “very old and run-down,” and that the Lacys appear to lack the money to do much about it. He said the school needs a fire alarm system and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357650-fire-inspection-reports.html\" target=\"_blank\">other fixes\u003c/a>, but doesn’t pose serious safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor condition of the school shocked Rachel Elginsmith, executive director of The BASIC Fund, a San Francisco organization that funds scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group provided a few small scholarships to students at St. Andrew until Elginsmith visited in June 2010. “It was a difficult visit, frankly. It’s hard to envision children in an environment like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lacys wouldn’t let her inside, she said. The organization immediately cut off funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soliciting at BART stations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART commuters continue to hand over money to the children who ask in almost robotic repetition, “Would you like to make a donation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street soliciting has been going on for many years, with children of all ages. Marilyn Lawson said she took her 5-year-old granddaughter out of the school a few years ago after the pastor told her she’d have to start asking for money when she turned 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courtney Corbitt remembers being packed in a van with other students – crammed in on each other’s laps, without seat belts – as Lacy Jr. drove them to BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlos Stewart Jr. said he was robbed while collecting donations in downtown Oakland. A man took the money and ran, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared. It was very fast,” he said. “You had to be out there for a long time. I wouldn’t want to be out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of another student, Mekhi Nosakhare, was alarmed to read in a previous \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch story\u003c/a> that the 9-year-old was asking for donations at the Downtown Berkeley BART station late last year. At the time, the girl – whose mother is married to Andrew Lacy – said she would get in trouble if she didn’t solicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Gabriel Osakhare, filed for custody of the girl because he was concerned she was being forced to “panhandle” and was receiving poor instruction at St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her step-father threatened her that she will be slapped, curses at her and calls her names if she says that she does not want to go on the nightly donations which last for at least 3 hours Mon-Fri from 5-8PM,” he wrote in a court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court records, the girl’s mother denied the allegations and said her daughter willingly went out fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a judge gave the father primary custody of the girl, ordering that she not engage in soliciting during weekends with her mother and that no corporal punishment be allowed by either parent. The judge also specified that she stay in a public elementary school where her father has enrolled her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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