HENRY HICKS, SR. AND MARGARET HARDY UP TO THEIR NECKS IN 'AT RISK' SCHEMES
11-30-09
School Board candidates Henry Hicks, Sr. and Margaret Hardy are up to their necks in the AT Risk Funds schemes being investigated by the FBI. A candidate for President of the School Board, Hicks is the incorporator of the S.C.O.P.E. while Hardy, a candidate for the District 3 seat on the School Board, is the Community Project Director for the Blackbelt Human Resource Development Center.
This web site has more than a thousand documents in its possession dating from 2001 until the present of all organizations involved, in what we believe to be, an amazing rip-off of taxpayers funds through interlocking front organizations involving the same people. In coming months, we expect to put most all of these documents on this web site so the public can see how their money is being wasted as it is being given to multiple organizations, most all of which are connected with the Voting Rights Museum in Selma and invole people associated with the museum and its benefactors.
IN THE DOCUMENTS WHILCH FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE, note the "dedication" of museum workers who AT THE SAME TIME work for Hicks' SCOPE organization, Hardy's Blackbelt Resource Center, and you know whose 21st Century Leadership organization. Some of these are so dedicated that on their time sheets, which we have copies, they even worked at Selma High on days that the school WAS CLOSED as well as the Friday of Jubilee and days in the summer when the school was not in session.
NOTE in the documents which follow: (these numbers correspond to the numbers we have placed on the pages)
1 and 2: Felecia Pettway is a remarkable person who while serving as Administrator of the Voting Rights Museum was also the Program Consultant at $15 an hour for Hicks SCOPE program related to high school testing at Selma High. Nothing in her resume indicated that she was qualified to help students do better on the exit exam, but notice the wonderful references she had: Hank Sanders, James Perkins, Bennie Crenshaw, Kim Mathew and Vickie Donaldson. With those people supporting Hicks SCOPE organization, is it any wonder the Selma CIty School Board funded SCOPE year after year.
3 and 4: Tarana Burke, Celeste Faison and Grover Jackson are indeed remarkable people. Note that on page 3, they are getting salaries from 21st Century in the amount of $15,150 and on page 4, AT THE SAME TIME, they are to be Instructors for the At Risk venture of Margaret Hardy's Blackbelt Arts and Culture Center to the tune of $66,000.
5 and 6: Looking at Burke's and Faison's resumes, NEITHER ONE HAS ANY QUALIFICATIONS to run a Kids University, as Hardy called her program.
7: THIS IS INCREDIBLE and appears to be the way that Hicks SCOPE organization funneled money to some Georgia or Mississippi corporation of Cliff Albright.
8: This appears to be an internal memo saying that At Risk checks for SCOPE were also to be made out to Albrights Community Aid and Development Corporation. We can not find any evidence that Albright was doing any work for the At Risk program, and if he was, SCOPE should have paid him directly. WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW is why the Selma CIty School Board permitted checks to be made to SCOPE and Albright when SCOPE was suppose to be running the At Risk Program.
9: Note the address on this letter to the Community Aid Corporation: Georgia
10: Note the address on this letter: Mississippi-4 months before the Corporation apparently moves to Georgia. And note the letter is to the attention of CHOKWE LUMUMBA, the National Chairman and co-founder of the New Afrikan People's Organization and co-founder and member of the Malcolm-X Grassroots movement, among his other radical associations. How is HENRY HICKS AND SCOPE associated with these people?
As we said, we have thousands of pages of documents involving the AT RISK programs funded by the Selma CIty School and other school systems in the Black Belt. HENRY HICKS AND MARGARET HARDY ARE UP TO THEIR NECKS IN THESE PROGRAMS AND SHOULD NOT BE ELECTED TO THE SELMA CITY SCHOOL BOARD.
