Both cases involved illegal misrepresentation of their real address in order to obtain educational thousands in benefits for their children. Santorum was never charged. The black, homeless mother gets 12 years in prison.
Now Santorum is cruising around the country bragging about how he selflessly educated his own children at home and how the rest of the country should emulate his righteous conduct.
Santorum allegedly stole: $73,000 in educational services.
Black woman allegedly stole: $15,000 in educational services
To add insult to injury, the HOMELESS woman going to jail is being fined $6200 for the theft. Santorum's tab was picked up by the Pennsylvania Education Department which paid the school district $55,000 to settle the dispute.
To most Americans, this dichotomy of outcomes should be repulsive. Only the Republicans would consider this person presidential timber. Santorum should be in a jail cell. This issue needs exposure.
Santorum details:
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In the fall of 2004, Santorum's use of tax dollars to pay for his kids' home schooling became controversial because his family was primarily living in Leesburg, Va., west of Washington. Following a local newspaper report, the Penn Hills School District near Pittsburgh tried to recover about $73,000 that it contended the state wrongly sent to an Internet-based charter school. Although the Santorums owned a house in the school district, officials argued, they were living out of state. The Pennsylvania Education Department in 2006 agreed to pay the district $55,000 to settle the dispute.
Details regarding black mother:
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Tanya McDowell is a homeless Connecticut mother who was charged with felony larceny last year after she lied about her address to make her six-year-old son eligible to attend school in a better district. McDowell pled guilty to the accusation and was sentenced to twelve years in prison this week. While the sentence also takes four charges of drug possession and sale into account, the sentence also requires that McDowell pay a $6,200 fine for stealing what the state has calculated was $15,000 in educational services.
McDowell’s case attracted the support of education and civil rights advocates who argued that because she was living in a van and occasionally sleeping at a shelter in Norwalk, where she enrolled her child, she should not have been required to send him to school in the city of her last permanent address, which is located in Bridgeport. Instead of using that old Bridgeport address, McDowell used that of a babysitter who lived in Norwalk to send her son to kindergarten.