Say Yes to Education is a Ponzi scheme; "School year starts in Guilford, but with no Say Yes specialists to help families"

Greensboro's City Council should be ashamed of themselves

for misleading our community

"In February, when Say Yes to Education Guilford requested proposals for an outside group to hire family-support specialists to work with students at 12 schools, leaders hoped to have a contract signed by the end of March and personnel in place at the end of last school year.

But that’s yet to happen. Say Yes still hasn’t inked a contract with a potential vendor to hire anyone.

According to the chapter’s new interim director Donnie Turlington, the plan stalled because the committee overseeing the initiative is looking for a recurring source of money that would pay for the specialists beyond this first year, which is covered.

After Donnie lied through his teeth with full knowledge

the payouts could not be made, months before the story broke

Say Yes National’s $15 million commitment to the Guilford chapter hasn’t changed, he said.

No mention of money Say Yes' money invested in the founder's fund

with most of the investments located in "South America and the Caribbean".

But the committee wants to find money that will help keep the initiative going before the specialists are ever hired and sent into schools.

How much of "Say Yes National’s $15 million commitment to the Guilford chapter"

has been delivered?

One would think a reporter would ask and deliver the information, 

but not at the News and Record, which is a propaganda outlet

which keeps our community in the dark

about actual facts that really matter  

It’s a little unclear yet whether that’s going to be a boon or a stumbling block for the much-heralded program that’s dealt with some blows in the past year, mainly from being unable to live up to some expectations related to its scholarship program.

The Say Yes Guilford Scholarship Board should be ashamed of themselves

for misleading our community

Getting future financing for the specialists would provide stability for the program...

Say Yes is a massive fraud 

committed by those who knew the program was unsustainable

including Guilford County's School Board and Greensboro's City Council

with zero accountability as usual by the News and Record,

while our paper of record kisses local municipal ass

as they try to unload their property in downtown Greensboro

Reached by phone this week, Turlington sounded optimistic about the situation and said he applauded the committee’s desire to focus on long-term sustainability...

Turlington pulled a fast one on Guilford County's kids and their parents,

and should be tarred, feathered and shipped out of town in a trash truck

for misleading so many while knowing what would happen

...Say Yes to Education is a New York-based national education nonprofit with a chapter in Guilford County. The 2015 announcement of the Guilford chapter came with much fanfare after the county raised millions of dollars for scholarships and competed with other cities across the country to nab the partnership.

But since then, things haven’t always gone smoothly.

How much money has Say Yes Guilford actually raised Jessie Pounds?

How much is actually left?

Don't the answers to the former two questions seem important to know?

Say Yes distributed about $5.8 million to fund scholarships for 2,426 graduates from the class of 2016, drawing on money raised from local and regional donors — and spending way more than expected.

Who would have thought?

In response, Say Yes’ scholarship committee introduced a plan to drastically reduce the overall amount of money given. Fewer students will get money for scholarships and many will get less than before.

Turlington has yet to disclose how much the Greensboro Community Foundation 

and the High Point Community Foundation 

are going to take in fees for money management,

which Jessie doesn't know enough about to ask or was told not to

or decided not to to support a Ponzi scheme

With one problem solved, now it’s on to another.

...When or if the family specialists do enter the schools, they’ll help answer questions from families about college scholarships and other topics.

“We have a group we’ve identified that can do the work,” Turlington said. “We don’t have a contract yet, but we feel good about that group and their abilities to help us.”

Contact Jessie Pounds at 336-373-7002 and follow @JessiePounds on Twitter

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/school-year-starts-in-guilford-but-with-no-say-yes/article_2095904a-502f-5a79-b555-bca6d01779b0.html

"Turlington named interim director for Say Yes Guilford

Donnie Turlington, the communications director for Say Yes to Education Guilford, took over as interim executive director last month.

He replaces Nadia Del Valle, who assumed the interim role last winter, following the departure of former executive director Mary Vigue.

...“We’ve got a great team here that’s responded very favorably to my role,” he said.

Turlington’s past experience includes nearly six years working in communications for the city of Greensboro. Before that, he was the director of public relations and digital engagement for Bouvier Kelly, a Greensboro advertising and marketing agency."

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/turlington-named-interim-director-for-say-yes-guilford/article_83e97a7a-fc46-56e2-8e8e-4efe0330ff26.html
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"Say Yes Saying It's Sorry to Guilford, Promising Free Tuition to Cleveland"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2017/06/say-yes-saying-its-sorry-to-guilford.html

"Certain choices are incompatible with continued existence"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2017/04/certain-choices-are-incompatible-with.html

Former City of Greensboro Assistant Manager Mary Vigue used her position to personally profit via Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/09/former-city-of-greensboro-assistant.html

Ponzi? From Say Yes to Education's 7/1/2014 to 6/30/2015 IRS 990 tax form

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/10/from-say-yes-to-educations-712014-to.html

Say Yes has a problem; Rhino Times Misinformation on Say Yes to Education; "City Doesn’t Say No to $1 Office Space for SAY YES"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-has-problem-rhino-times.html

I crashed the Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford meeting at Smith High School and passed out fliers asking the following questions;

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-crashed-say-yes-to-education-and-say.html

Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford are saying they are going to cover the last dollar costs between financial aid and total tuition

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-to-education-and-say-yes.html

On October 3, 2015, Guilford County's Board of Education was shown a "Full Tuition Scholarship Incentive" plan, for every GCS graduate who goes to college

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/on-october-3-2015-guilford-countys.html

How the Triad Business Journal got played for chumps by Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-triad-business-journals-reporter.html

Say Yes to Education, Inc. (Say Yes), and Say Yes Guilford appears to be a legal Ponzi scheme and/or a Racket

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-to-education-inc-say-yes-and.html

Are our local Realtors saying Say Yes to Education is going to pay for everyone in Guilford County's college?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/are-our-local-realtors-saying-say-yes.html

Say Yes has a problem; Rhino Times Misinformation on Say Yes to Education; "City Doesn’t Say No to $1 Office Space for SAY YES"

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-has-problem-rhino-times.html

Dear Donnie Turlington; Please explain why Say Yes to Education's money is in Central America

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/02/dear-donnie-turlington-and-mary-vigue.html

Say Yes to Education's amazing, quite unbelievable investment performance

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/06/say-yes-to-educations-amazing-quite.html

George 'Say Yes to Education' Weiss and Associates;"...the hedge fund portfolio reportedly returned more than 50% per year on an annual basis", except for when it didn't

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/09/george-say-yes-to-education-weiss-and.html

Former City of Greensboro Assistant Manager Mary Vigue used her position to personally profit via Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/09/former-city-of-greensboro-assistant.html

Gag order and censorship for Guilford County teachers by Say Yes to Education and Angela Jackson of Guilford County's Association of Educators

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/07/gag-order-and-censorship-for-guilford.html

George Weiss doesn't mind using massive leverage and illegal tax avoidance

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/08/george-weiss-doesnt-mind-using-massive.html

I crashed the Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford meeting at Smith High School and passed out fliers asking the following questions;

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-crashed-say-yes-to-education-and-say.html

Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford are saying they are going to cover the last dollar costs between financial aid and total tuition

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-to-education-and-say-yes.html

We are being lied to; According to the NC Commerce Department, there were 5,845 layoffs announced through all of 2015, but 7,453 through May, 2016

There were 3,327 mass layoffs in North Carolina through May of last year 

and 7,453 so far this year, and our news industry 

and our politicians won't tell anyone

http://www.nccommerce.com/Portals/11/Documents/Reports/WARN/warn-2015.pdf#search="warn notice"

http://www.nccommerce.com/Portals/11/Documents/Reports/WARN/Warn.pdf

Meanwhile in la la land, these are their talking points;

http://www.nccommerce.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=zJStDFI4T8U%3d&tabid=4337&mid=8740

Do you believe it?

Announced mass layoffs have doubled year over year
and the public is fed platitudes from the establishment

Think the Rhino will tell anyone?

The Triad and Triangle Business Journal won't and hasn't;

Once again Triangle Business Journal Staff Writer Lauren K. Ohnesorge misleads readers and the public on North Carolina layoff statistics


http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/06/once-again-triangle-business-journal.html

What did Brian Cleary and Eric Ginsburg tell Joanna Rutter before she wrote' "Say Yes mobilizes for next phase of educational support"?

"After meeting its initial goal of providing Guilford County public-school seniors with opportunities for last-dollar tuition scholarships...

What does 'opportunities' mean Brian and Eric?

....Say Yes Executive Director Mary Vigue’s eagerness was palpable.

“We’re excited we’re moving beyond scholarships here in Guilford,” Vigue said. “We’re moving past them, into the next phase.”

How much money is being allocated this year Brian, Eric and Joanna?

...Vigue energized a room of about 30 young-to-middle-aged professionals in suits and medical uniforms

Why not students and their parents Brian, Eric and Joanna?

Doesn't it seem counter-intuitive?

Say Yes to Education [says they are going to fund] last-dollar tuition scholarships
available to all eligible Guilford County public high-school graduates starting with the class of 2016.

With how much money from where Brian, Eric and Joanna?

...Say Yes selected Guilford County to be its third community-wide program alongside Syracuse and Buffalo, NY.

Not quite true, isn't it Brian, Eric and Joanna?

What are the names of the city's whose programs went under?

Why have so many other Say Yes communities terminated their programs?

...Since then, the local iteration of the organization has grown, adding Greensboro’s former assistant city manager Vigue [and City of Greensboro Communications director Donnie Turlington, using free space 'donated' from City of Greensboro taxpayers]

...data will come from much of what’s currently available from the county school-system and research previously conducted for Say Yes by Schoolhouse Partners, an independent publishing and service company specializing in education.

Schoolhouse Partners has made a lot of money from Say Yes to Education

Schoolhouse Partners is a service company 

providing resources and solutions to its clients 

in the areas of grant funding, prospect research, 

and proposal writing

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-triad-business-journals-reporter.html

...Attendees nodded and murmured in assent.

...Several private donors initially committed the needed funding to launch the chapter — around $28 million of a $70 million goal for perpetuity, according to Vigue.

Thanks to seed money from Say Yes along with $35 million in contributions 

from local businesses and individuals, Guilford County is one of those communities.

http://myfox8.com/2016/02/26/say-yes-director-makes-big-promises-to-piedmont-triad-students/

How did $35 million turn into $28 million Brian, Eric and Joanna?

Are you purposefully lying to your readers?

...Say Yes spokesperson Donnie Turlington said in an interview that the local funds raised came from many of the same pockets as the $30 million of private funding for the Tanger Center for the Performing Arts just a year before.

Almost unbelievable

How much of the $35 million in announced donations 

have been delivered to the Community Foundations of Greensboro and High Point

Brian, Eric and Joanna?

The national Say Yes organization met them with $15 million of seed money to help the startup.

Where's the money?

https://triad-city-beat.com/say-yes-mobilizes-for-next-phase-of-educational-support/
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How much money would it take to pay for every Guilford County High School graduate 
who was promised "a free college education" 
according to the News and Record's Susan Ladd and Say Yes to Education
Brian, Eric and Joanna?

What is the anticipated average per student scholarship expected to be 
for Guilford County's 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019's graduating classes
Brian, Eric and Joanna?

What will the monies be invested in and at what cost for Guilford County's graduates
Brian, Eric and Joanna?

How many students will the "Full Tuition Scholarship Incentive" cover for 2016's graduating class, 
and what is the expected pay out by Say Yes Guilford [over the next ten years]
Brian, Eric and Joanna?

How much will Say Yes Guilford need to raise and make on the endowment each year 
to remain sustainable, Brian, Eric and Joanna?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools
so far declined to provide all documentation and communications 
concerning the investment management fees for the endowment?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to provide all documentation and communications 
involving the school system's due diligence concerning Say Yes to Education?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools so far declined to provide estimates 
for the amounts and number of scholarships to be distributed via Say Yes Guilford?

Why are most of Say Yes to Education's investments 
located in "CENTRAL AMERICA  AND THE CARIBBEAN"?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to provide the expected salaries of Say Yes Guilford employees?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to provide the percentage of the total amount to be given to students each year?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to provide expected yearly fundraising costs?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to state if  Say Yes Guilford is to be considered a fiduciary over the investment assets?

Why has Say Yes, the City of Greensboro and Guilford County Schools 
so far declined to report if the investment managers will be considered fiduciaries?
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John Hammer on Mary Vigue and Say Yes to Education and Zack Matheny and Andy Zimmerman's play for tapayer money; Same things only different

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/john-hammer-on-mary-vigue-and-say-yes.html

On October 3, 2015, Guilford County's Board of Education was shown a "Full Tuition Scholarship Incentive" plan, for every GCS graduate who goes to college

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/on-october-3-2015-guilford-countys.html

Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford are saying they are going to cover the last dollar costs between financial aid and total tuition

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/say-yes-to-education-and-say-yes.html

What won't be read in the News and Record; "Members of Congress Demand Investigation Into Predatory Practices at Warren Buffett’s Clayton Homes"

"He walked them through Clayton-built homes on the lot, then into the sales center, passing a banner and posters promoting one subprime lender: Vanderbilt Mortgage, a Clayton subsidiary. Inside, he handed them a Vanderbilt sales pamphlet.

“Vanderbilt is the only one that finances on the reservation,” he told the women.

His claim, which the women caught on tape, was a lie. And it was illegal.

In minority communities, Clayton’s grip on the lending market verges on monopolistic: Last year, according to federal data, Clayton made 72% of the loans to black people who financed mobile homes.