{"id":1994431,"date":"2023-08-08T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-ally-at-center-of-federal-investigation-into-florida-department-of-education\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:06:20","slug":"desantis-ally-at-center-of-federal-investigation-into-florida-department-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-ally-at-center-of-federal-investigation-into-florida-department-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal investigation into Florida Department of Education focuses on DeSantis ally."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-ally-at-center-of-federal-investigation-into-florida-department-of-education%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1994431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Federal Investigators Probe Alleged \u2064Bid-Rigging Scheme in Florida Department\u200c of Education<\/h2>\n<p>Federal investigators are currently looking into the Florida\u200c Department of Education regarding \u200dan alleged bid-rigging scheme for control of a school \u2064district in northern Florida. The investigation centers around the\u200d department&#8217;s attempts \u2063to manipulate a contract for district control in favor of a company\u200b associated with former Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-ally-at-center-of-federal-investigation-into-florida-department-of-education\/\" title=\"Federal investigation into Florida Department of Education focuses on DeSantis ally.\">federal grand jury issued\u2063 subpoenas<\/a> to officials at the \u200dJefferson County School District in June, seeking information\u200d on the Florida DOE&#8217;s actions. The goal was to uncover any communications between\u2064 lobbyists, school district officials, and\u2064 Department of Education personnel\u2064 in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The company believed to be connected to \u2062Corcoran, MGT Consulting, aimed to secure a contract\u2063 to transition the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stay-at-home-mom-sued-by-nations-largest-teachers-union-after-investigating-crt\/\" title=\"Stay-At-Home Mom Sued By Nation\u2019s Largest Teachers\u2019 Union After Investigating CRT\">school district back<\/a> \u200dto\u200c regular status\u200c after\u200c a year \u2063under charter company control. The proposed plan involved utilizing $4 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-choice-to-oversee-covid-unemployment-benefits-lost-600-million-in-coronavirus-relief-to-nigerian-scammers\/\" title=\"Joe Biden\u2019s Choice To Oversee COVID Unemployment Benefits Lost 0 Million In Coronavirus Relief To Nigerian Scammers\">coronavirus relief funds<\/a> to hire consultants for\u200d assistance during the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Department of Education ultimately rejected the plan, two officials within the department resigned \u200cduring the process. Jacob Oliva and Melissa Ramsey faced an investigation by the Florida DOE&#8217;s inspector general, but no disciplinary\u2062 action was taken against them.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Corcoran&#8217;s tenure as education commissioner ended in 2022, with Manny Diaz Jr. \u2064currently serving as the\u200c state&#8217;s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-education-secretary-confirmed-asks-america-to-reimagine-education\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Education Secretary Confirmed, Asks America To \u2018Reimagine Education\u2019\">top education official<\/a>. The Washington \u2064Examiner has reached out to the Florida Department of Education for comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u2064 here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal investigators are probing the Florida Department of Education for an alleged bid-rigging scheme to gain control of a school district in northern Florida. Subpoenas were issued to Jefferson County School District officials in June, as a federal grand jury investigates the Florida DOE&#8217;s maneuvering to secure a contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}