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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Will Evans, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/district-board-members-urge-oakland/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland school board members are calling for the district to investigate whether a private school accused of abuse is inflating enrollment numbers to get more than its share of taxpayer funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66889\">\u003c/a>The board members were responding to a California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into a West Oakland K-12 school run by St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church, which sends its students to ask for money at BART stations. Oakland Unified School District allocated $50,000 in federal funds this year based on the school's claim that it had 195 students, including 61 low-income children. Former students and government inspections, however, indicate the actual number is fewer than 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the money is distributed in contracts, approved by the school board, to church leaders such as Robert Lacy Jr., who several former students said physically abused the children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr. has said he has no history of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Noel Gallo said the district must take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a money issue, but it’s really about children,\" Gallo said. \"The minute someone tells me something is questionable or not right, then I'm just as responsible as the person doing it.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said the money to St. Andrew should be shut off if the district confirms problems at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do provide approval for the use of those public funds. Even though our staff are saying we’re just a pass-through, we’re still liable and responsible,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member David Kakishiba also said the district should withhold funding if it finds the enrollment numbers were falsified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly if there’s fraudulent activity going on, we need to put a stop to it,\" he said. \"There's some basic due diligence that I believe any school district is responsible for doing when we’re transferring funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members are expecting Superintendent Tony Smith to report back to them on the issue at their next meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman Troy Flint said there isn't currently a formal investigation and that the board would have to vote on whether the district should take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re attentive to the issue, and right now things are just in the discussion phase,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said the district did not know about the accusations of abuse of children at the school – and that those allegations make the issue more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take those with the utmost seriousness,” he said. “And that’s our primary concern at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Corbitt, who pulled her 12-year-old daughter out of St. Andrew in February, called for even stronger measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They should shut that school down and make them pay back all the money,\" she said. \"Because there’s no education being taught there at all. It’s all a fraud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr., who earlier defended himself and the school against what he called hearsay, said his attorney advised him not to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board Vice President Jumoke Hinton Hodge wrote by e-mail that the California Watch report \"gives us pause, of course, on any further support of the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinton Hodge, whose district includes West Oakland, wrote that she was saddened that parents and students \"might not have gotten what they needed from West Oakland (public) schools that are steadily improving. I hope that families will reconsider coming back to West Oakland schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo and Kakishiba said they want to review the district's disbursement of federal funds in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Oakland Unified allocated $784,000 in federal Title II money to 29 private schools in Oakland, based on the schools' total enrollment, according to district records. The money is supposed to provide teacher training, and in St. Andrew's case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes to\u003c/a> Carrie Banks, who married the church's pastor and teaches kindergarten through third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also allocated $441,000 in Title I funds to 16 private schools, based on the number of eligible low-income students at the schools. That money funds additional instruction for struggling students. The school board approved a $7,400 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">contract\u003c/a> in January for Lacy Jr. to provide the tutoring at $40 per hour. In April, district staff approved an additional $8,000 contract for Lacy Jr. that will go to the school board for final approval soon, said William Nownes, who administers the funding for Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board typically signs off on a long list of these contracts as part of its consent agenda, which allows approval of routine items, bunched together, without discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said district staff should at least spot check a sampling of the schools receiving money to verify enrollment figures and the quality of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take it for granted that what we’re voting for is a good thing, and I think we need to pay greater attention to exactly what we're supporting,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Noel Gallo said the district must take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a money issue, but it’s really about children,\" Gallo said. \"The minute someone tells me something is questionable or not right, then I'm just as responsible as the person doing it.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said the money to St. Andrew should be shut off if the district confirms problems at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do provide approval for the use of those public funds. Even though our staff are saying we’re just a pass-through, we’re still liable and responsible,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member David Kakishiba also said the district should withhold funding if it finds the enrollment numbers were falsified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly if there’s fraudulent activity going on, we need to put a stop to it,\" he said. \"There's some basic due diligence that I believe any school district is responsible for doing when we’re transferring funds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members are expecting Superintendent Tony Smith to report back to them on the issue at their next meeting on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesman Troy Flint said there isn't currently a formal investigation and that the board would have to vote on whether the district should take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re attentive to the issue, and right now things are just in the discussion phase,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flint said the district did not know about the accusations of abuse of children at the school – and that those allegations make the issue more urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take those with the utmost seriousness,” he said. “And that’s our primary concern at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Corbitt, who pulled her 12-year-old daughter out of St. Andrew in February, called for even stronger measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They should shut that school down and make them pay back all the money,\" she said. \"Because there’s no education being taught there at all. It’s all a fraud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacy Jr., who earlier defended himself and the school against what he called hearsay, said his attorney advised him not to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board Vice President Jumoke Hinton Hodge wrote by e-mail that the California Watch report \"gives us pause, of course, on any further support of the school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hinton Hodge, whose district includes West Oakland, wrote that she was saddened that parents and students \"might not have gotten what they needed from West Oakland (public) schools that are steadily improving. I hope that families will reconsider coming back to West Oakland schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo and Kakishiba said they want to review the district's disbursement of federal funds in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This school year, Oakland Unified allocated $784,000 in federal Title II money to 29 private schools in Oakland, based on the schools' total enrollment, according to district records. The money is supposed to provide teacher training, and in St. Andrew's case \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357636-banks-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes to\u003c/a> Carrie Banks, who married the church's pastor and teaches kindergarten through third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also allocated $441,000 in Title I funds to 16 private schools, based on the number of eligible low-income students at the schools. That money funds additional instruction for struggling students. The school board approved a $7,400 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/357635-lacy-jr-ousd-contracts.html\" target=\"_blank\">contract\u003c/a> in January for Lacy Jr. to provide the tutoring at $40 per hour. In April, district staff approved an additional $8,000 contract for Lacy Jr. that will go to the school board for final approval soon, said William Nownes, who administers the funding for Oakland Unified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board typically signs off on a long list of these contracts as part of its consent agenda, which allows approval of routine items, bunched together, without discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallo said district staff should at least spot check a sampling of the schools receiving money to verify enrollment figures and the quality of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take it for granted that what we’re voting for is a good thing, and I think we need to pay greater attention to exactly what we're supporting,\" Gallo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A West Oakland church and private school that sends children to solicit donations at BART stations has a history of financial and legal troubles, including two cases in which \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75822223/Alameda-County-v-Andrew-Lacy\">church leaders admitted they illegally received government assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50856\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/standrewchurch_1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50856\" title=\"standrewchurch_1\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/standrewchurch_1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church and Private School in West Oakland (Photo: Will Evans, California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The children, including one who said he was 7 years old, have been raising funds for \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/701.html\">St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church\u003c/a> at East Bay BART stations for hours at a time on weekday evenings. They say they are collecting money for a new 24-hour day care center for the church, which runs a small K-12 private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be under my pastor’s house, and we’re going to put the pastor’s house on top,” said 9-year-old Mekhi Sade Nosakhare, standing in the Downtown Berkeley BART station without an adult present. She said she doesn’t like soliciting donations every night, but if she doesn’t, she gets in trouble with her mother and stepfather, Andrew Lacy, who is one of the pastor’s sons. Lacy, who arrived shortly after, declined to be interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church and its pastor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/51212.html\">Robert Lacy\u003c/a>, drew scrutiny last year after a \u003ca href=\"http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88d_1275429607\">CBS 5 investigation\u003c/a> found that they required young students to spend long hours raising money from passers-by in downtown San Francisco. At the time, the students also said they were fundraising for a new building, but the TV report raised questions about where the money was actually going. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, church officials have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75259353/BART-permit\">permit from BART\u003c/a> to raise funds every night from 5 to 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Curry White, the pastor’s ex-wife and mother of Andrew Lacy, said the pastor has been making children raise money for many years, with nothing to show for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tells my sons that he don’t have no money, so they go out there and try to get money,” White said. “He takes all the money and keeps it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Lacy, the church’s 79-year-old founder, sometimes watches silently in the background as his own young children solicit money. One of them, Cloella Lacy, 16, said that if they don’t each collect about $50 or $75 in a night, they could get detention. Another, 12-year-old Moses Lacy, said he likes collecting money because “it gives me a mind to want to look into people’s eyes and get donations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both children were interviewed while they solicited donations at the Rockridge BART station without adult supervision. The pastor, who arrived later, declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to tell you about it because you are a reporter, and we don’t want to get into no lawsuit with you,” Robert Lacy said. “BART gave us privilege to come out here. That’s all you need to know. … Leave me alone now before I call the police on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at St. Andrew did not respond to phone calls or e-mails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said she recently took her grandson away from the church so he wouldn’t have to solicit money at night. The grandson, she said, was told that if he didn’t raise at least $100 in a night, he would get bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Oakland Unified School District approved payments totaling $72,700 to St. Andrew school officials for teacher training and student support since October 2009. \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=667334&GUID=F29FBD18-CD78-4A6C-BFDE-22D03780A982\">One of the pastor’s sons, Robert Lacy Jr., received $19,100\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from federal funding that public school districts must, by law, share with private schools. The district has little say over who receives the funds, said district spokesman Troy Flint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like St. Andrew face minimal oversight. Unlike other charities, churches don’t have to file with the state attorney general or the Internal Revenue Service. The California Department of Education doesn’t regulate private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minimum age for such soliciting in California is 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, has not investigated the church or school, said spokeswoman Sylvia Soublet. “The only time we can go out and investigate is when we have a specific allegation for a specific child,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said the church hasn’t been remodeled or expanded in decades. Currently, no construction permits have been requested from the city of Oakland for the pastor’s or church’s addresses, according to the city’s community and economic development agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Lacy brought the church to its current West Oakland location in 1978. He has a history of financial problems, filing for bankruptcy in 1996 under the name Robeth Lacy and again in 2003 as Robert Lacy, both times using the same Social Security number. He and his adult sons have been sued over various financial issues, including unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Robert Lacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft of government money. He failed to notify the Social Security Administration of his father’s death and personally took about $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father’s account after he had died, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75260583/Lacy-Plea-Agreement\">proposed plea agreement\u003c/a>. Robert Lacy also failed to report family property that made him ineligible to receive about $22,000 in government assistance, according to the agreement. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75263961/Amended-Judgment\">had to pay back the money\u003c/a> through deductions to his monthly government checks and was given three years’ probation and a $1,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was a very nice guy when I met him,” said Peter Clerides, his defense attorney in that case. “He didn’t strike me as someone who would intentionally be involved in anything that was beyond the letter of the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church filed for bankruptcy in 2004. At the time, it was facing a lawsuit brought by the mother of a former student who, when she was four 4 years old, was allegedly mauled and disfigured by a Rottweiler at the school in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claimed the dog belonged to Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s son, but the Lacys denied ownership. The church wrote in court filings that the injured girl and her mother “had full knowledge of all the risks, dangers and hazards, if any there were” and “failed to use that degree of care and caution for their own safety which a reasonably prudent person would have used.” The church settled the dispute for $70,000 in 2006, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, in 2004, Alameda County obtained a $13,000 court judgment against Andrew Lacy. According to court filings, Andrew Lacy admitted that he “fraudulently received public assistance benefits” from the county “by submitting false written statements under penalty of perjury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 2004, the church served a congregation of 50 people, had an unpaid staff, and survived on donations and fundraising, according to an interview with a church representative as part of the bankruptcy proceeding. The school had 20 or fewer students and emphasized Bible training, according to the interview. That same year, however, the church reported to the state that it had 195 students, the same number it reported this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy trustee attorney found that the church brought in a total of $47,129 after more than a year in bankruptcy and that it had a negative cash balance and bad check fees. A bankruptcy judge dismissed the church’s case when it failed to submit filings on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other creditors, the church owed money to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Agencies like soup kitchens and churches that distribute for the food bank pay a small fee that helps cover costs. St. Andrew owed about $1,000, a relatively large debt, said food bank spokesman Michael Altfest. The food bank had to write it off as bad debt and no longer partners with St. Andrew, Altfest said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Deborah Carney said she enrolled her daughter at St. Andrew a couple of years ago because the pastor initially seemed to understand her child’s learning needs. But Carney pulled her daughter from the program, she said, because the church was making her solicit money until late at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the teachers said, ‘You’re not leaving until you make my money,’ ” Carney said. “It would be like 10, 11 o’clock at night when they got home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carney tried to exempt her daughter from the fundraising, she said the pastor refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was like, ‘No. You can’t give her permission. She can’t leave,’ ” Carney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carney said church officials also pressured her to attend services as a condition of her daughter’s enrollment. She said the congregation appeared to be made up mostly of the pastor’s family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the pastor’s ex-wife, said she is concerned about the children who attend St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry about them, ’cause I know how he did me and my kids,” she said. “But there’s nothing I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch reporting \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, church officials have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75259353/BART-permit\">permit from BART\u003c/a> to raise funds every night from 5 to 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Curry White, the pastor’s ex-wife and mother of Andrew Lacy, said the pastor has been making children raise money for many years, with nothing to show for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tells my sons that he don’t have no money, so they go out there and try to get money,” White said. “He takes all the money and keeps it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Lacy, the church’s 79-year-old founder, sometimes watches silently in the background as his own young children solicit money. One of them, Cloella Lacy, 16, said that if they don’t each collect about $50 or $75 in a night, they could get detention. Another, 12-year-old Moses Lacy, said he likes collecting money because “it gives me a mind to want to look into people’s eyes and get donations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both children were interviewed while they solicited donations at the Rockridge BART station without adult supervision. The pastor, who arrived later, declined to answer questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to tell you about it because you are a reporter, and we don’t want to get into no lawsuit with you,” Robert Lacy said. “BART gave us privilege to come out here. That’s all you need to know. … Leave me alone now before I call the police on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at St. Andrew did not respond to phone calls or e-mails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said she recently took her grandson away from the church so he wouldn’t have to solicit money at night. The grandson, she said, was told that if he didn’t raise at least $100 in a night, he would get bad grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Oakland Unified School District approved payments totaling $72,700 to St. Andrew school officials for teacher training and student support since October 2009. \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=667334&GUID=F29FBD18-CD78-4A6C-BFDE-22D03780A982\">One of the pastor’s sons, Robert Lacy Jr., received $19,100\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from federal funding that public school districts must, by law, share with private schools. The district has little say over who receives the funds, said district spokesman Troy Flint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like St. Andrew face minimal oversight. Unlike other charities, churches don’t have to file with the state attorney general or the Internal Revenue Service. The California Department of Education doesn’t regulate private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minimum age for such soliciting in California is 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Social Services Agency, which investigates allegations of child abuse, has not investigated the church or school, said spokeswoman Sylvia Soublet. “The only time we can go out and investigate is when we have a specific allegation for a specific child,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said the church hasn’t been remodeled or expanded in decades. Currently, no construction permits have been requested from the city of Oakland for the pastor’s or church’s addresses, according to the city’s community and economic development agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Lacy brought the church to its current West Oakland location in 1978. He has a history of financial problems, filing for bankruptcy in 1996 under the name Robeth Lacy and again in 2003 as Robert Lacy, both times using the same Social Security number. He and his adult sons have been sued over various financial issues, including unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, Robert Lacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft of government money. He failed to notify the Social Security Administration of his father’s death and personally took about $17,000 in Social Security payments sent to his father’s account after he had died, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75260583/Lacy-Plea-Agreement\">proposed plea agreement\u003c/a>. Robert Lacy also failed to report family property that made him ineligible to receive about $22,000 in government assistance, according to the agreement. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/75263961/Amended-Judgment\">had to pay back the money\u003c/a> through deductions to his monthly government checks and was given three years’ probation and a $1,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was a very nice guy when I met him,” said Peter Clerides, his defense attorney in that case. “He didn’t strike me as someone who would intentionally be involved in anything that was beyond the letter of the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church filed for bankruptcy in 2004. At the time, it was facing a lawsuit brought by the mother of a former student who, when she was four 4 years old, was allegedly mauled and disfigured by a Rottweiler at the school in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claimed the dog belonged to Andrew Lacy, the pastor’s son, but the Lacys denied ownership. The church wrote in court filings that the injured girl and her mother “had full knowledge of all the risks, dangers and hazards, if any there were” and “failed to use that degree of care and caution for their own safety which a reasonably prudent person would have used.” The church settled the dispute for $70,000 in 2006, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, in 2004, Alameda County obtained a $13,000 court judgment against Andrew Lacy. According to court filings, Andrew Lacy admitted that he “fraudulently received public assistance benefits” from the county “by submitting false written statements under penalty of perjury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 2004, the church served a congregation of 50 people, had an unpaid staff, and survived on donations and fundraising, according to an interview with a church representative as part of the bankruptcy proceeding. The school had 20 or fewer students and emphasized Bible training, according to the interview. That same year, however, the church reported to the state that it had 195 students, the same number it reported this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bankruptcy trustee attorney found that the church brought in a total of $47,129 after more than a year in bankruptcy and that it had a negative cash balance and bad check fees. A bankruptcy judge dismissed the church’s case when it failed to submit filings on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other creditors, the church owed money to the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Agencies like soup kitchens and churches that distribute for the food bank pay a small fee that helps cover costs. St. Andrew owed about $1,000, a relatively large debt, said food bank spokesman Michael Altfest. 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