Rip "The Rip-Off" Rapson Pitches Another Privatized Child Welfare Fraud Scheme In Detroit

Well, well, well, look at what we have here.

Rip "The Rip-Off" Rapson wants to pitch another one of those social impact bond investment programs schemes to help "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

For a synoptic overview of Rip "The Rip-Off" Rapson, his work and his legacy in Detroit, make sure to click the link provided, below, because it makes for an interesting read on the history of the City that only I shall continue to preserve in the annals of history, in the spirit of fuchsia.

How They Stole Detroit: Clinton Foundation, Mike Duggan, Rip Rapson, Rick Snyder, Detroit Land Bank Authority & Medicaid Fraud In Child Welfare

Kresge, Kellogg foundations to invest $50M in early childhood efforts in Detroit

Two big Michigan-based foundations announced Friday they are investing $50 million to support efforts to improve early childhood outcomes for Detroit children - money that will be used for a number of things, including upgrading existing facilities, building a state-of-the-art early childhood center and providing competitive wages for early childhood educators.

And not a penny for other things critical to improving childhood outcomes for Detroit children like, quality and affordably housing, food, water, you know, the basics, but have no fear, those state-of-the-art early childhood centers will be filled to capacity once Rip "The Rip-Off" and his cabal finish its forced migration plan for "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

The $50-million pledge was made by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Kresge Foundation, each of which is investing $25 million.

Hold on, it is coming...the money shot.

That money will support the Hope Starts Here Community Framework, a 10-year plan for ensuring young children and families are placed at the center of public policy and business decisions. It's a broad plan that was developed based on needs in the community and in part on the input of people closest to the issue - parents and early childhood providers.

BAM!  The money shot.  

Children are the most profitable segment of human capital.

Hope Starts Here Detroit Full Framework 2017 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

"This gives us a road map to make sure that Detroit puts kids first," La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation, said during an event at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

"We are organized and engaged and ready to push that agenda. By working together, we can ensure that every child in Detroit fulfills their potential."

Ladies and Gentlemen, and very tiny woodland creatures, allow me to present the international tempplate for social impact investment, featuring, none other than the notorious Clinton Foundation (a.k.a. Detroit Land Bank Authority).

Yes, the Clinton Foundation also operates in Canada because they do not have to disclose their contributors under Canadian law, even though it is a U.S. foundation, registered under the purposes of a presidential library in Arkansas, yet registered in multiple states, under a different name, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, designating them with the sole controlling interests, without ever tellling the IRS what it is doing.

Rumor has it November 15, 2017 is F-day, filing day, that is for those pesky things called audits.

The Michigan Attorney General is over the Charity Division and refuses to do a damn thing about people who come into the state and set up shop by filing bogus corporation documents and charity tax exempt filings.

Anyway, I digress, but I just wanted to put that out there just in case Bill Schuette thought he would blackmail them for more campaign contributions for his gubernatorial campaign, just saying...

Social Impact Investment: Gianni Ciufo FMI-CGA-CMA Joint Conference - Feb 2013 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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But despite the big investment from the two foundations, officials said Friday that they need more people to get involved.

"It's all hands on deck," said Rip Rapson, president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation.

Chop chop!  Do what I tell you for I am your savior and I need to generate that best interest of the child rate.

To that end, they've created a way for people to donate to the effort: By texting the word Hope to 50503. Text that number, and you'll receive a link to donate.

A key part of the efforts involves creating some cohesion for a system that is disconnected, with many providers and little collaboration.

"Utter chaos is not acceptable," Tabron said.

That "utter chaos" is called the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, where Deloitte just made a profit making life even worse for "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

What the city has now is "many people working with high purpose," but without "any kind of connection to resources."

That "working with high purpose" is called survival without "any kind of connection to resources", like water shutoffs.

Among the strategies targeted in this area is the creation of a central coordinating body that would lead early childhood efforts in the city and the use of a single data system to increase information sharing.

You see that?  Privatization goes by many names, "central coordinating body".

This "central coordinating body" is a database for predictive modeling for social impact investment. 

That need for a more coordinated effort is timely, given last week's announcement by Southwest Solutions, a nonprofit social services agency, that it was pulling out of a Head Start collaborative, affecting 420 children in the city. Efforts are being made to ensure those kids are placed elsewhere.

Rapson said he hopes that the stewardship board that has been in place for a year and will remain in place - guiding the implementation of the framework - could play a role in helping address some of those issues.

Now, Rip "The Rip-Off" is calling privatization take over of government a "stewardship board", indicating admirality, with a manifest of goods, human goods, to be exact.

"It may be that we couldn't have prevented it any better than the folks on the ground could. My hope is that we will. It's an opportunity for us to reason together and problem solve together," Rapson said.

Steve Ragan, senior vice president at Southwest Solutions, said exiting the collaborative - which includes several other Head Start providers - "has just been really painful." Money was an issue. The collaborative received a $60 million federal grant but was expected to provide $15 million in match funding. That, and a lack of adequate classroom space in the city, were factors that led Southwest Solutions to exit the collaborative.

Actually, no one wanted to work with Southwest Solutions.  They have, oh, how do we say this, Detroit Land Bank Authority issues.

Ragan and Rapson said the exit is a symptom of a larger problem.

The larger problem is the fact that Rip "The Rip-Off" promulgated the largest rip-off scheme in this nation's history by fueling the burgeoning class of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) by stealing the children, the land, the water and the votes from Detroit.

 "By working together,
we can ensure that every child in Detroit
fulfills their potential"
La June Montgomery Tabron,
president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation

"I hope it causes people to look really hard at the circumstances of early childhood education," Ragan said.

 "This is needed in Detroit. There's a real gap. But it's a very difficult program to financially operate."

That gap is not just financial, it is economic.  You ran the people away to bring in selected populations who have money to pay your social impact bond dividends.

"We have to figure out some way to put a stake in the ground about delivering these services in a way that’s consistent, coherent and adequately sourced," Rapson said. "Even if the magnitude of the problem exceeds the resources available, we are going to take long steps toward making sure that more resources are made available to the right activities over time," Rapson said.

That is why "Every Corporation Should Hire A Child", whether for-profit or non-profit, but tax exempt is always more profitable and using charities to profit from children is not as savage, you know.

The $50-million invested by Kresge and Kellogg will also go toward efforts to improve the quality of early childhood programs and increase access to those programs. A program would be launched to train "passionate parents" and put them on a path to become early childhood educators.

Passionate parents, as opposed to unpassionate parents?  Is unpassionate parents the latest craze in coming up with a reason to call CPS or launch some other creative corporate scheme to implement corporate parental rights over the trusts of the child to make those social impact bond dividend payments?

Part of improving the quality of programs is to address the low pay of early childhood educators and the struggle to find people to work in the programs, Tabron said.

"That low funding and low salaries
create turnover and mobility.
What we're trying to do is
stabilize the profession."
La June Montgomery Tabron,
president and CEO of the Kellogg Foundation

"If it's not a livable wage, you're not going to get people who are committed and can stay there for a long period of time," Tabron said. "That low funding and low salaries create turnover and mobility. What we're trying to do is stabilize the profession."

"Stabilize the profession", more privatization code words for social impact investing.

Meanwhile, a revolving loan fund would be created to help renovate early childhood facilities.

"It’s desperately needed," Rapson said. "You can walk into facilities in our community and by any measure a child simply should not be educated there."

Then, once you walk out the facility into the community that you helped destroy in stealing houses, by any measure a child simply should not be living there.

He said the fund, which is already being created, wouldn't provide "huge amounts of capital," but "enough so you can begin to update facilities."

Social impact investing is an international money laundering scheme because privatization has no civil rights.

And the new state-of-the art facility, part of Kresge's investment, would provide not just early childhood education programs, but things like parent education programs and health screenings. It would be a model for the best ways to educate young children, Rapson said.

Chattel ranching!

Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools Community District, said he's excited about the effort and ready to collaborate.

"Everyone wants change in education ... What we don’t see enough is people putting their shoulder to the wheel to do things differently ... and to think in a more visionary way to help do the work."

That's what excites him about Hope Starts Here, because "this is the right investment to promote equal opportunity."

No, this is the only investment.  Rip "The Rip-Off" was the keyman in any investment opportunity once they pillaged the city treasures and set up a bunch of strawman operations to intercept federal assistance, specifically intended for the people.

Vitti said Detroit, where academic achievement overall is poor, doesn't have an achievement gap. 

"We have an equity gap. We have an opportunity gap. We have a resource gap. For decades we've been blaming children and parents and neighborhoods ... and not calling out that we have an equity issue."

Hope Starts Here is the result of a one-year community planning process that involved more than 240 community members and experts.

Experts?  Oh, you mean "The Elected Ones".  How much did you line their campaign coffers with?

In the end, they came up with six so-called imperatives - things that need to happen. Under each of those imperatives is a set of strategies to accomplish those goals.

"They’re vitally important," said Mark Davidoff, Michigan managing partner for Deloitte. "They’re crucial. They’re essential. And there’s an urgency about this."

Here are those six imperatives:

• Promote the health, development and well-being of all Detroit children
• Support parents and caregivers as children’s first teachers and champions
• Increase the overall quality of Detroit’s early childhood programs
• Guarantee safe and inspiring learning environments for children
• Create tools and resources to better coordinate systems that impact early childhood
• Find new ways to fund early childhood, and make better use of existing resources

Here are a few more imperatives:

• Stop stealing taxpayer funding for education to build sports entertainment complexes;
• Stop stealing real properties and making the kids homeless;
• Stop stealing property taxes and forcing kids to live in poverty;
• Stop stealing the vote.

Several of the speakers Friday talked about the importance of the efforts in the context of the city's rebuilding.

"If we’re going to grow the city, if we’re going to build a city people truly want to call home….

We’ve got to invest in our children," said Alexis Wiley, chief of staff to Mayor Mike Duggan.

Yes, but as of the date of this post, you have yet to do a damn thing for our children, except make a profit.

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Michigan & Texas Profit Millions In Educational Neglect & Abuse In Medicaid Fraud

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General just presented its audit findings for the State of Texas Medicaid Reimbursement for School-Based Health Services and it found over $18 million dollars in fraud.

Now, here is the background.

"Your goal is to generate profits for the LLC."

Fairbanks, LLC is the state privatized company that has the contract for Texas schools special needs billing programs.

This is its mission statement:

Our goal is not the maximization of what a client can claim from Medicaid.

Seriously.

The mission is not to maximize revenues from the submission of Medicaid cost reimbursements, but to generate profit for Fairbanks through the submission of fraudulent billing to Medicaid to generate "fees".

Yes, it is all about the fees for those for-profit privatized human service agencies, particularly when dealing in child welfare, because, as always, those records are secured through privacy laws, in the "best interests of the child", literally.

Medicaid fraud in child welfare is a multi-billion dollar industry.

The "leadership" of Fairbanks, LLC hails from Deloitte.

Deloitte sucks because it is the same company which set up Michigan's BRIDGES IT system, where, there the system is so horrible, it will cut, confiscate, severe and omit remittance of federal program assistance payments to "The Poors" (SNAP, Medicaid) due to its horrific internal 3 month audit reset mechanism, which generates more fees, and your basic, poorly constructed online application and case management services, of which I aver was intentional for purposes of up-billing.

This is taken directly from the Michigan-Deloitte microcontract:

Effective 5/8/2017, this Contract is increased by $8,980,640.00 for Design, Construction, Testing, and Implementation of the Universal Case Load (UCL) portion of the Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) Project. All other terms, conditions, specifications, and pricing remain the same. Per Contractor and Agency agreement, DTMB Procurement approval, and State Administrative Board approval on 1/24/2017.

This is now the aggregated contract value:  $163,587,804.00

Basically, for doing a half-ass IT job, causing extreme hardship for the residents of the State of Michigan, Deloitte got a bonus, and I bet it comes from fraudulent billing to Medicaid, and switcho-chango federal funding shuffles the state calls "gaming the system".

I have always speculated that the Michigan allows its privatized contractual arms to secure kickbacks to fund political campaigns.

That is correct, Deloitte has a FEC Political Action Committee.

And Deloitte has its dirty little hands all up in Fairbanks, LLC down in the Texas school system in ripping off those special needs students who deserve these services, but hey, do not let me interfere in a tried and true business model of maximizing profits for a privatized, state contracted corporation.

Not all of the direct medical service costs that the State agency claimed for Medicaid SHARS were reasonable, adequately supported, and otherwise allowable in accordance with applicable Federal and State requirements. Specifically, the Contractor coded random moments incorrectly. Of the 3,161 random moments coded as an IEP-covered direct medical service, 274 were coded incorrectly. As a result of these errors, the State agency received $18,925,853 in unallowable Federal reimbursement for the Medicaid SHARS program during the period October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2011.

HHS Audit of Texas Medicaid Fraud in School Based Health Services 2017 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

See, Texas and Michigan have the same mission in educating students of the State: Profit by abuse and neglect.

See, these children who do not receive proper educational services, do not learn and eventually will grow up to become adults who rely upon more Medicaid services, ultimately, furthering diffusing this Medicaid fraud model of "gaming the system", from state, to state to eventually other nations.

Always remember, it is in the best interests of the child to generate a profit!

Snyder's attorneys say DPS students have no right to literacy

In federal court today, attorneys responding to a suit naming Gov. Rick Snyder as a defendant argued that the state of Michigan, which has been so intimately involved with Detroit Public Schools for almost 20 years, has no responsibility to ensure students in the district are able to learn to read.

The suit, brought by seven Detroit schoolchildren in September of last year, charged Gov. Snyder, the members of the Michigan Board of Education, and various other state officials with failing to provide an opportunity to learn.

Now, before you out-county city-bashers erupt in unanimous invective about inner-city pathologies, children who don't want to learn, and babies having babies, read on and decide if any child could learn under the circumstances outlined in the lawsuit. The lawsuit describes classrooms without books, teachers, or even functioning climate control, where temperatures can exceed 90 degrees in the summer and drop to 32 degrees in the winter. The lawsuit describes vermin and nonfunctioning restrooms. The lawyers associated with the case describes an environment where since no books exist no homework can be assigned. Students are essentially warehoused in a building for several hours a day. Yes, in such conditions, even Brad and Ashley from the prosperous precincts of Independence Township might find it a challenge to learn.

What's more, before the state of Michigan intervened, the district had a surplus of $93 million, healthy enrollment and test scores that were on the rise. After the state's "rescue" in 1999, and then under the ensuing succession of emergency managers, little remained of those promising figures. In 2015, as Curt Guyette reported, enrollment had plummeted by nearly 50 percent, the number of schools cut in half, and a tide of red ink annually amounted to tens of millions of dollars, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars.

But this afternoon, with a straight face, Deputy Attorney General Timothy Haynes argued before Judge Stephen J. Murphy III that the state of Michigan didn't agree that state officials had any responsibility to provide DPS students with literacy. They also challenged that the state has controlled Detroit Public Schools since 1999. The Bill of Rights, Haynes argued, mentions no specific right to literacy. Instead, counsel pointed to the charter operators, authorizers, boards, and intermediaries as possible culprits. The courtroom gallery was dense with a cross-section of inner-city students, teachers, and their families, who showed remarkable restraint to sit in polite silence through this effort to explain away the grotesque barriers to education that prevail at many of their schools.

Then Mark D. Rosenbaum addressed the judge on why the suit should not be dismissed. Never in his life had he imagined he would stand before a court in the year 2017 arguing that the state had an obligation to provide students with textbooks, teachers, and a building in which they could learn without being distracted by the sweltering heat or having to put on a second jacket to stay warm. As the judge and the attorney brought up the fine points in the relevant case law, the discussion was probably heady for even those fine legal minds holding down their side of the bar. At the end of the hearing, Judge Murphy declared he'd issue a decision, though it would likely take longer than the usual 30 days.

Later Thursday afternoon, officials of the American Federation of Teachers blasted the state's motion to dismiss the suit. “The state created these poor learning conditions," their statement read, "and now Gov. Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette are further abdicating their responsibility to the children of Detroit by moving to dismiss this case. All these children and families are asking for is what we owe all families — great, well-resourced public schools where parents want to send their kids, teachers want to teach, and children are engaged.”

After the plaintiffs and lawyers streamed out onto Lafayette Boulevard, they spoke to media about the barriers they've faced. Many of them were excited to speak to reporters, to share their stories on camera. Catching a bit of shade in front of the courthouse, it was tempting to dwell on the irony of students being denied everything the Brads and Ashleys of our world take for granted — and ending up fighting the system in the company of legal wizards and well-spoken activists. Talk about gaining an education!

In about 30 or so days, we'll begin to see if the state gets taught a lesson too.

Detroit Public Schools Students v. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Right to Learn Federal Lawsuit by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Privatization cannot thrive nor can corporations generate profit, unless the children fail in schools.

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