School Corruption Hurts D.C. Chess Program

In "A Most Wicked Chess Game: The D.C. Schools" (also here), Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher describes how $70,000 raised for a chess program to help struggling kids at the Moten Elementary school in Southeast Washington was stolen by an embezzling business manager. This is a very troubling case of school corruption, which Fisher uses to indict the whole system. Related coverage here:

• Freed by Chess, Cornered by D.C. Priorities (2003)
• Moten Educational Center School Chess Team Travels to Nashville (2003)
• School Uses Chess to Help Students (2003)
• Student Money Vanishes, But Few Are Punished (2007)
• Ex-Worker Charged with Stealing Donations to Student Club (2007)
• Ex-School Official Charged with Stealing Chess Club Funds (2007)