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Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Did principal steal $35K? Chicago Sun-Times
Her attorney, Steven Hunter, said Diaz has paid back $23,000 and plans to pay back the rest. "We expect that when the trial is concluded, and both sides have been heard, that she'll be exonerated,'' he said. "There were extenuating circumstances.''
Chicago Public Schools principal accused of stealing $35000 Tribune
Sullivan's office launched a sixth-month investigation into Diaz Ortiz after an anonymous tipster alleged to school officials that there had been financial improprieties at the school.
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Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Some wrote the other day on the blog that corruption was all over the city and that gangs in Chicago thrived because a culture of corruption. Boy was that on the money, when a principal making 137,000 a year has to steal to make end meet that sends a message to our youth.
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 9:07 AM
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Great story and reporting.
Thanks to that one tipster who had the guts to come forward!
Does that mean Diaz is bad?
No. Just that there needs to be a change at that school because there became a culture of ownership and no oversight. This lead the principal to believe she was above the law or was the law.
All powerful.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Thanks to that one tipster who had the guts to come forward!
Does that mean Diaz is bad?
No. Just that there needs to be a change at that school because there became a culture of ownership and no oversight. This lead the principal to believe she was above the law or was the law.
All powerful.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Downfall thy name is Hubris- she ran the school like it was her personal fiefdom. 2 years??? Her financial misdeeds go back much deeper. If you wanted Xerox copies, she took your Union teacher supply money. If you dared turn in your own receipts you weren't allowed to use "her" machine. She charged $25 dollars a year for parking spots, she employed 1 sister in law as a clerk, another as a teacher's aide, 1 brother in law was coach of track and volleyball and her 2 brothers as a security guard and substitute gym teacher, members of her salsa band were employed as T-1 Line installer contractors, teacher asisstants, band and choir teachers. Even her daughters did their student teaching at Nobel. Every time she was grieved, nothing was done.
Shame on you Olga and Trujillo for letting it get this far...
Shame on you Olga and Trujillo for letting it get this far...
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I thought that the former principal (ousted by the Curie LSC) J. Jones was the superstar principal, according to the media and Daley.
Well I guess this principal is a superstar. Doubling the test scores, now that is a superstar principal.
Why? Because the former Curie principal school was on Corrective Action. BINGO.
Well I guess this principal is a superstar. Doubling the test scores, now that is a superstar principal.
Why? Because the former Curie principal school was on Corrective Action. BINGO.
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Everyone wants their piece of the pie, no matter what law they break. I am sorry, as a retired principal, to read this, but if true, I am disheartended that Domingo Truillo allowed this to continue. He may have been following orders or protecting a friend or... either way, he shold have stopped this. Other principals have suffered removal for MUCH less and he aloowed this. Who can we believe in?
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Shame on Domingo for many things...the situation at DeDiego is an example of how he used his power (and now Flavia's ) to destroy the innocent and protect the guilty. The beat goes on...
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
CPS Principals are held to such intense scrutiny with layers upon layers of line supervisors micro-managing our schools. Where were this dishonest principal's supervisors? They are as guilty as she. Her insane, irresponsible behavior casts the shadow of doubt, deception, and distrust on the rest of us, who are hard-working, dedicated, and may not wear the superstar medal, but we're putting in long hours and giving up weekends without the drama, ego, or bravado. Does she really deserve her pension with a laudry list of 42 criminal offenses? Life isn't fair, but let's hope it is just!
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
No offense, but Trujillo retired over two years ago...
Myself, I think she should do time for insisting on being the star of all her school musicals....
Myself, I think she should do time for insisting on being the star of all her school musicals....
Wed Apr 9, 2008 at 11:58 PM
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whose next MS?
I'm not a Crook!
I'm not a Crook!
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Ever since the Chicago Board of Education voted (August 2000, unanimously) to fire me from my teaching job for "copyright infringement" based on our publication in Substance of the odious CASE tests (subsequently ended by Arne Duncan after the Curie teachers threatened a boycott), I've taken an even greater interest in "corruption" at the highest levels of CPS. During the years before the Daley dictatorship, I exposed a large number of corruptions, ranging from the highest ranking sex criminal ever to operate in a public school (James Moffat) to numerous minor league potentates across CPS. We also took on the Marva Collins hoax long long ago.
The imposition of the Daley dictatorship beginning in 1995 created an entire new dimension of corruption here in Chicago, however, one that continues at the highest levels of government, education, journalism, and philanthropy to this day. Now that it's begun to unravel, the troubling thing is that it will take at least a decade to straighten out some of the mess that's been left, and much of it will never be repaired. The damage has just been too great.
As the foremost whistle blower inside CPS during those years (forget the official narrative and think about the facts, for a minute), I've taken this kind of story seriously.
We've published on several iterations of these kinds of straightforward "corruption" stories across the years, but the bigger picture belies most people's imagination. And, of course, many many decent people are simply in denial.
Who, for example, is ready to listen carefully to the in-depth story of all the corruptions (money; sex; criminal) that reside within the Aspira charter school mess, to take one example that's still ongoing? The same Sun-Times that punched up the headline on Nobel's Diaz helped Aspira cover up some of its corruptions at Aspira Haugan two years ago (next month) and continues to facilitate similar ones across the city.
How many people are willing to listen to a narrative that outlines the destruction of Gladstone Elementary School and its building's conversion to quasi-private use (UIC/Noble Street) through overtly racist tactics against the black children and families (and staff) currently at Gladstone?
The question about Nobel is not why it's going on but what took it so long to become "news."
Teachers from Nobel have tried (amid fear) to blow the whistle for almost a decade, and the embezzlement was just the tip of an iceberg that included nepotism (noted above) and other kinds of serious corruption, way beyond what's noted here and going back through all of the years of Arne Duncan and into the years of Paul Vallas.
At bottom in all this is that insane "bottom line" that is so goofily highlighted in both the Tribune and Sun-Times narratives about the latest Nobel nonsense: as long as Diaz raised test scores, she was immune (a la Enron, until things completely unravelled) from serious audits (especially of her test scores games) because she was producing according to the only metric that matters (present tense, not past) to the top dogs around Arne Duncan and to each of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education.
That's the real corruption, and it's embedded into the very fabric of CPS now that we're completing the 13th year of corporate "school reform" under Richard M. Daley and his appointees (CEOs, Board, elsewhere across CPS). As long as Chicago defines "superstar" as "high test scores" and then grants immunity from scrutiny to anyone who achieves those objectives, the people who rise to the top will be the most corrupt in the system, and the corruption below them will be covered up until it blows up in someone's face.
The imposition of the Daley dictatorship beginning in 1995 created an entire new dimension of corruption here in Chicago, however, one that continues at the highest levels of government, education, journalism, and philanthropy to this day. Now that it's begun to unravel, the troubling thing is that it will take at least a decade to straighten out some of the mess that's been left, and much of it will never be repaired. The damage has just been too great.
As the foremost whistle blower inside CPS during those years (forget the official narrative and think about the facts, for a minute), I've taken this kind of story seriously.
We've published on several iterations of these kinds of straightforward "corruption" stories across the years, but the bigger picture belies most people's imagination. And, of course, many many decent people are simply in denial.
Who, for example, is ready to listen carefully to the in-depth story of all the corruptions (money; sex; criminal) that reside within the Aspira charter school mess, to take one example that's still ongoing? The same Sun-Times that punched up the headline on Nobel's Diaz helped Aspira cover up some of its corruptions at Aspira Haugan two years ago (next month) and continues to facilitate similar ones across the city.
How many people are willing to listen to a narrative that outlines the destruction of Gladstone Elementary School and its building's conversion to quasi-private use (UIC/Noble Street) through overtly racist tactics against the black children and families (and staff) currently at Gladstone?
The question about Nobel is not why it's going on but what took it so long to become "news."
Teachers from Nobel have tried (amid fear) to blow the whistle for almost a decade, and the embezzlement was just the tip of an iceberg that included nepotism (noted above) and other kinds of serious corruption, way beyond what's noted here and going back through all of the years of Arne Duncan and into the years of Paul Vallas.
At bottom in all this is that insane "bottom line" that is so goofily highlighted in both the Tribune and Sun-Times narratives about the latest Nobel nonsense: as long as Diaz raised test scores, she was immune (a la Enron, until things completely unravelled) from serious audits (especially of her test scores games) because she was producing according to the only metric that matters (present tense, not past) to the top dogs around Arne Duncan and to each of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education.
That's the real corruption, and it's embedded into the very fabric of CPS now that we're completing the 13th year of corporate "school reform" under Richard M. Daley and his appointees (CEOs, Board, elsewhere across CPS). As long as Chicago defines "superstar" as "high test scores" and then grants immunity from scrutiny to anyone who achieves those objectives, the people who rise to the top will be the most corrupt in the system, and the corruption below them will be covered up until it blows up in someone's face.
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Ever since the Chicago Board of Education voted (August 2000, unanimously) to fire me from my teaching job for "copyright infringement" based on our publication in Substance of the CASE tests (subsequently ended by Arne Duncan after the Curie teachers threatened a boycott), I've taken an even greater interest in "corruption" at the highest levels of CPS.
During the years before the Daley dictatorship, I exposed a large number of corruptions, ranging from the highest ranking predatory criminal ever to operate in a public school (James Moffat) to numerous minor league potentates across CPS. We also took on the Marva Collins hoax long long ago.
The imposition of the Daley dictatorship beginning in 1995 created an entire new dimension of corruption here in Chicago. That level of corruption is one that continues at the highest levels of government, education, journalism, and philanthropy to this day. Now that it's begun to unravel, the troubling thing is that it will take at least a decade to straighten out some of the mess that's been left. Much of the mess will never be repaired. The damage has just been too great, and the lives of thousands of children -- almost always the "least of our brethren" -- have been destroyed.
As the foremost whistle blower inside CPS during these years (forget the official narrative and think about the facts, for a minute), I've taken this kind of story seriously. (I also continued to ask to have my status changed to whistle blower from copyright infringer, but that won't happen until a regime dedicated to justice returns to Chicago).
Back to Nobel. We've published several iterations of these kinds of straightforward "corruption" stories across the years. The bigger picture belies most people's imagination. And, of course, many many decent people are simply in denial.
Who, for example, is ready to listen carefully to the in-depth story of all the corruptions (money; interpersonal; criminal) that reside within the Aspira charter school mess, to take one example that's still ongoing? The same Sun-Times that punched up the headline on Nobel's Diaz helped Aspira cover up some of its corruptions at Aspira Haugan two years ago (next month) by joining Channel 44 and the leaders of Aspira in slandering a teacher who tried to blow the whistle. So that corruption continues to facilitate similar ones across the city.
Looming behind all this is that Chicago is America's most intensely and nastily segregated city. The pretense for the Olympic rivals that of China, with its human rights violations. How many other major American cities can brag that they contain more than 300 segregated all-minority (i.e., 100 percent minority children) public schools, and that the city is creating more of them each year, only now through privatization ? (Most of the charters created in the past five years are all-black or all-Latino, so Chicago has been adding a new dimension to segregation).
How many people are willing to listen to a narrative that outlines the destruction of Gladstone Elementary School? In February 2008, CPS votes to close Gladstone for "underutilization". Then in March 2008, CPS votes its building's conversion to quasi-private use (UIC/Noble Street) through overtly racist tactics against the black children and families (and staff) currently at Gladstone?
The question about Nobel is not why it's going on but what took it so long to become "news." It's also an epistemological question: just what do we mean by "corruption" in a city where you can drive for 20 miles and pass nothing but public schools which are 100 percent black? Fifty years of Daleys have created that, but the complicity of most of the people at the top levels of power has been necessary.
This is not to say that the microcosm isn't relevant.
Teachers from Nobel have tried (amid fear) to blow the whistle for almost a decade, and the embezzlement was just the tip of an iceberg that included nepotism (noted above) and other kinds of serious corruption, way beyond what's noted here and going back through all of the years of Arne Duncan and into the years of Paul Vallas.
At bottom in all this is that insane "bottom line" that is so goofily highlighted in both the Tribune and Sun-Times narratives about the latest Nobel nonsense: as long as Diaz raised test scores, she was immune (a la Enron, until things completely unravelled) from serious audits (especially of her test scores games) because she was producing according to the only metric that matters (present tense, not past) to the top dogs around Arne Duncan and to each of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education.
That's the real corruption, and it's embedded into the very fabric of CPS now that we're completing the 13th year of corporate "school reform" under Richard M. Daley and his appointees (CEOs, Board, elsewhere across CPS). As long as Chicago defines "superstar" as "high test scores" and then grants immunity from scrutiny to anyone who achieves those objectives, the people who rise to the top will be the most corrupt in the system, and the corruption below them will be covered up until it blows up in someone's face.
During the years before the Daley dictatorship, I exposed a large number of corruptions, ranging from the highest ranking predatory criminal ever to operate in a public school (James Moffat) to numerous minor league potentates across CPS. We also took on the Marva Collins hoax long long ago.
The imposition of the Daley dictatorship beginning in 1995 created an entire new dimension of corruption here in Chicago. That level of corruption is one that continues at the highest levels of government, education, journalism, and philanthropy to this day. Now that it's begun to unravel, the troubling thing is that it will take at least a decade to straighten out some of the mess that's been left. Much of the mess will never be repaired. The damage has just been too great, and the lives of thousands of children -- almost always the "least of our brethren" -- have been destroyed.
As the foremost whistle blower inside CPS during these years (forget the official narrative and think about the facts, for a minute), I've taken this kind of story seriously. (I also continued to ask to have my status changed to whistle blower from copyright infringer, but that won't happen until a regime dedicated to justice returns to Chicago).
Back to Nobel. We've published several iterations of these kinds of straightforward "corruption" stories across the years. The bigger picture belies most people's imagination. And, of course, many many decent people are simply in denial.
Who, for example, is ready to listen carefully to the in-depth story of all the corruptions (money; interpersonal; criminal) that reside within the Aspira charter school mess, to take one example that's still ongoing? The same Sun-Times that punched up the headline on Nobel's Diaz helped Aspira cover up some of its corruptions at Aspira Haugan two years ago (next month) by joining Channel 44 and the leaders of Aspira in slandering a teacher who tried to blow the whistle. So that corruption continues to facilitate similar ones across the city.
Looming behind all this is that Chicago is America's most intensely and nastily segregated city. The pretense for the Olympic rivals that of China, with its human rights violations. How many other major American cities can brag that they contain more than 300 segregated all-minority (i.e., 100 percent minority children) public schools, and that the city is creating more of them each year, only now through privatization ? (Most of the charters created in the past five years are all-black or all-Latino, so Chicago has been adding a new dimension to segregation).
How many people are willing to listen to a narrative that outlines the destruction of Gladstone Elementary School? In February 2008, CPS votes to close Gladstone for "underutilization". Then in March 2008, CPS votes its building's conversion to quasi-private use (UIC/Noble Street) through overtly racist tactics against the black children and families (and staff) currently at Gladstone?
The question about Nobel is not why it's going on but what took it so long to become "news." It's also an epistemological question: just what do we mean by "corruption" in a city where you can drive for 20 miles and pass nothing but public schools which are 100 percent black? Fifty years of Daleys have created that, but the complicity of most of the people at the top levels of power has been necessary.
This is not to say that the microcosm isn't relevant.
Teachers from Nobel have tried (amid fear) to blow the whistle for almost a decade, and the embezzlement was just the tip of an iceberg that included nepotism (noted above) and other kinds of serious corruption, way beyond what's noted here and going back through all of the years of Arne Duncan and into the years of Paul Vallas.
At bottom in all this is that insane "bottom line" that is so goofily highlighted in both the Tribune and Sun-Times narratives about the latest Nobel nonsense: as long as Diaz raised test scores, she was immune (a la Enron, until things completely unravelled) from serious audits (especially of her test scores games) because she was producing according to the only metric that matters (present tense, not past) to the top dogs around Arne Duncan and to each of the seven members of the Chicago Board of Education.
That's the real corruption, and it's embedded into the very fabric of CPS now that we're completing the 13th year of corporate "school reform" under Richard M. Daley and his appointees (CEOs, Board, elsewhere across CPS). As long as Chicago defines "superstar" as "high test scores" and then grants immunity from scrutiny to anyone who achieves those objectives, the people who rise to the top will be the most corrupt in the system, and the corruption below them will be covered up until it blows up in someone's face.
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
She was the one caught. Good job! There are so many more. Teachers feel powerless in reporting criminal activities in their schools. I can' t say nothing is done because yes once reported, the board sends the usual investigators. They sit around, become friendly with the accused, get a job or two for their ralatives and the case is found"unfounded". You want to investigate? find Dr. Dushaun Brown! who statrted her stealing at the Curtis School then Gary Elementary School, then back to Curtis full fledge and now managed to get into a High School where she terrorises and steals.
This woman's brain only works in deception. She sleeps with whom she needs to sleep with, pays who she needs to pay, and fires who she needs out of the way to help herself wirh the children's money. Go find her! She's not very smart but she will outsmart you in deception. She believes in her shredder!
This woman's brain only works in deception. She sleeps with whom she needs to sleep with, pays who she needs to pay, and fires who she needs out of the way to help herself wirh the children's money. Go find her! She's not very smart but she will outsmart you in deception. She believes in her shredder!
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Help me here.
Let’s try to get a figure for what the average High School student spends
Inside the school every year. Remember to include lunch. vending machine
Game tickets and dances. This will very by year of course, but let’s try
Let’s try to get a figure for what the average High School student spends
Inside the school every year. Remember to include lunch. vending machine
Game tickets and dances. This will very by year of course, but let’s try
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
are you counting school fees, too? you might want to see this article to get a feel for the range (the story is from 2005, so the range is probably higher now):
http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/index.php?item=1778&cat=30
http://www.catalyst-chicago.org/news/index.php?item=1778&cat=30
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Yes let's include everything.Thanks for the article
Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 7:09 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Why didn't the Union do anything about this principal? She was putting 40 students in classrooms, withholding supply money, verbally abusing teachers. Where was our Union????
Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I personally knew the princpal for many years & she was a giving, loving, wonderful person overall, but unfortnately-people change!!! She allowed her personal life to control her professional life. She trusted the wrong people, mistreated many & in the end expected...a change of heart! Where was her heart? mind? soul? I do think everyone should pay the piper, but I dont agree with displaying her business on the front page of a newspaper. I dont think she's a bad person- just think she made too many bad decisions. I don't understand how someone could be so educated & yet so stupid!!! I wish her the best, because she's human & we make mistakes, unfortantely-her mistakes will determine her life yet to come!
Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
How sad- very poignant and well said. I too have known her for many years and watched her unchecked, downward spiral to where she cowers today. However maybe the spectre of front page exposure might act as a deterrent to those currently engaged or considering financial misconduct and abuse of power. One of the reasons she got away with her misdeeds for so long is that her grievances, however justified were magically swept under the rug EVERY time and embolded her to step further and further across the line. The AIO and above knew for a long time the things she was doing and are as much to blame for creating this situation. This rests solely on Trujillo he acted more as her friend and protector rather than acting as her superior and looking out for the interests of students and teachers. They were informed of the over crowding, the shady financial misconducts, her vindictive and abusive unprofessionalism and should share in her shame. Ahhh Chicago politics.
Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 6:24 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Financial misconduct at the local school level is one of the smallest financial problems facing CPS today. The unchecked waste at Clark St. and its outposts is the greater. Every year, CPS makes budget claims (the annual "deficit" Chicken Little stuff), then give Arne a blank check to hire anyone with corporate clout for all of those nasty outposts of corporate "school reform." It's gotten so there isn't even discussion before they spring up like dandelions in May.
The "Turnaround" office wasn't in the current budget when it was presented last summer, and now it's one of the biggest things facing the schools.
While it's important to root out "corruption" at the local school level (and anybody could have stopped Diaz a long time ago, so the real question is why they didn't), to turn away from what's going on in the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors at 125 S. Clark St. is the really expensive -- and really corrupt -- reality in Chicago's public education system today. The seven members of the Chicago Board of Education treat public money as if it were a private piggy bank to fund their ideological experiments (latest: "Turnaround". Previous: all the "Res" -- reconstitution, reengineering, and intervention).
Beyond the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on these silly experiments in Chilean "free market" nonsense, there is the intellectual corruption of reducing the complexity of children (and the hundreds of thousands struggling in poverty in our world class city) to a "bottom line" as measured by multiple choice computer graded secret so-called "standardized" test scores.
Anyone who thinks the Inspector General is going to investigate even one hundreth of Arne Duncan's corruption is in fantasyland.
The "Turnaround" office wasn't in the current budget when it was presented last summer, and now it's one of the biggest things facing the schools.
While it's important to root out "corruption" at the local school level (and anybody could have stopped Diaz a long time ago, so the real question is why they didn't), to turn away from what's going on in the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors at 125 S. Clark St. is the really expensive -- and really corrupt -- reality in Chicago's public education system today. The seven members of the Chicago Board of Education treat public money as if it were a private piggy bank to fund their ideological experiments (latest: "Turnaround". Previous: all the "Res" -- reconstitution, reengineering, and intervention).
Beyond the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on these silly experiments in Chilean "free market" nonsense, there is the intellectual corruption of reducing the complexity of children (and the hundreds of thousands struggling in poverty in our world class city) to a "bottom line" as measured by multiple choice computer graded secret so-called "standardized" test scores.
Anyone who thinks the Inspector General is going to investigate even one hundreth of Arne Duncan's corruption is in fantasyland.
Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
The heads of the OIG (Inspector General) office came from City Hall so do you really think they are going to unearth anything against Duncan to make Daley look bad when he just transferred them from City Hall to CPS?!!!
Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
People have been reporting her shenanigans for years on end. But those of us that do work for the city or the county, we know that government entities are bureaucratic red tape sink holes.
These kind of charges and such are not done over-night.
Concerned teachers, staff, parents, and those of us (me) that have loved ones employed by CPS have indeed been reporting this for a while now. But as with all things having to do with the government, things are slow motion.
No one is in a hurry to look into such things when there are layers upon layers of red tape. It's akin to a stinky onion, you peel off one layer to only get to another. Sadly, a lot of people in the positions of power in CPS that can and ought to be investigating and stopping these kinds of crimes are either protecting friends and or do not care to do the work involved.
Especially not when they know they will receive their pay every two weeks.
Many on other websites have stated that she did a lot of good to try to justify her crimes. That is tantamount to saying that Saddam was a good leader even though he tortured and murdered countless millions.
I am NOT comparing Diaz to a murderer, no. But the analogy is the same - we can't sit idle and excuse crimes because of some good that was done.
Are we to teach our kids that it is OK to have extra-marital affairs (i.e. Bill Clinton) if we are a charming speaker?
Are we to teach our kids that it is OK to steal money if we are going through a rough patch in our lives?
Those that are trying to sweep the 42 charges brought against Diaz need to think about what they're trying to have us consider and justify.
A wrong does not make a right.
She can plead "not guilty" all she wants, but these kind of charges are seldom ever brought to light unless there is a plethora of evidence as its foundation.
Maybe she will have to go through the receiving area of the Cook County Jail.. then onto Division 4.
The irony.....
These kind of charges and such are not done over-night.
Concerned teachers, staff, parents, and those of us (me) that have loved ones employed by CPS have indeed been reporting this for a while now. But as with all things having to do with the government, things are slow motion.
No one is in a hurry to look into such things when there are layers upon layers of red tape. It's akin to a stinky onion, you peel off one layer to only get to another. Sadly, a lot of people in the positions of power in CPS that can and ought to be investigating and stopping these kinds of crimes are either protecting friends and or do not care to do the work involved.
Especially not when they know they will receive their pay every two weeks.
Many on other websites have stated that she did a lot of good to try to justify her crimes. That is tantamount to saying that Saddam was a good leader even though he tortured and murdered countless millions.
I am NOT comparing Diaz to a murderer, no. But the analogy is the same - we can't sit idle and excuse crimes because of some good that was done.
Are we to teach our kids that it is OK to have extra-marital affairs (i.e. Bill Clinton) if we are a charming speaker?
Are we to teach our kids that it is OK to steal money if we are going through a rough patch in our lives?
Those that are trying to sweep the 42 charges brought against Diaz need to think about what they're trying to have us consider and justify.
A wrong does not make a right.
She can plead "not guilty" all she wants, but these kind of charges are seldom ever brought to light unless there is a plethora of evidence as its foundation.
Maybe she will have to go through the receiving area of the Cook County Jail.. then onto Division 4.
The irony.....
Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Wow. Who else has whiplash?
Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Free Association,
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Thu May 1, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I worked with a principal that took money, give money to teachers and never was there a receipt turned in. The employees at the school that work with the principal in internal accounts are paid off to keep quiet. Maybe, this person wasn't paid off enough to keep quiet. Employees going to school on work time. I did payroll, employees were swiping other employees in and out. The principal was getting the heads up on when the Lunchroom Inspectors were coming in, so they feed the kids PBJ sandwich for a week so they could clean up. Payroll is abused in the Chicago Public Schools and no one seems to care. Teachers and security guards fighting with each other in front of the students. Police Officers were told not to arrest or write reports because it would made the principal look bad. Employee assaulting another employee and the victim employee gets retailated against the principal for calling the police and having the other employee arrested. Violence in the schools has been going on and on. Mirna Diaz - This was a Personal Vendetta against this principal. Someone was out to get her.
Mon May 5, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
MY NEICE WAS WORKING WITH THIS PRINCIPAL AND HAD TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL,BECAUSE SHE WAS CONTANTLY HARASSED BY THIS SO CALLED LEADERSHIP. TEN YEARS OF TEACHING WENT OUT THE WINDOW. SHE PURSUE'S A DIFFERENT PROFFESION NOW AND BELEVE
YOU ME THAT PERSON HAS DONE MORE BAD THEN GOOD.
YOU ME THAT PERSON HAS DONE MORE BAD THEN GOOD.
Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I know this woman. She married into my family. I know her daughters and just to be straight w everyone, Mirna Ortiz was NOT railroaded nor was there a personal vendetta. What people dont realize is she stole from her former husband also. Oh yeah! When divorce papers were being filed, she forged his name on a 2nd morgage, cleared out the accounts, spent all his saving on her daughters, etc. This info has not came out because her former husband doesnt want the attention and honestly, doesnt want her to get in anymore trouble than she is! She is a joke. WHo cares if test scores were raised. She stole from the school. And her attorney is saying she is not criminally liable, that there is special circumstances here. Her attorney has no idea how many more charges will blow up in her face. It will get out that she stole and forged her ex husband name. She ran that school like the former soviet union,. I know.. I visited while she worked there..SHe always came off as loving and sweet but she had another side. She deserves jail time and hope she gets its. Spread the word about her stealing from ex......It will get around and she will pay for it all. Its what is right. She is a thief disguised as an angel of the children of chicago What a joke.
Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
If he is in default of the loan call the bank, don't even tell him you're doing it.....also call the FBI as most mortgage fraud cases constitute wire fraud which is Federal. Trust me, I feel bad for her, but then again, we have laws for very good reasons. Bad things happen when good people do nothing. There were plenty of employees at Nobel that knew enough to blow the whistle and were too weak to do it. In my estimation they should be punished in some way as well, but maybe their conscious will do that for them. As for Mirna, you need to help prevent her from doing the same to others by informing the proper authorities.
Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Haha, the ex husband doesn't want the attention because many skeletons will come out with a vengeance from his closet. believe me "former family member," the ex husband would not walk away clean either. i knew the matrimony for many years, even prior to wedding. i do recall that he too had a daughter (from a previous matrimony) that lived with them rent free with the daughters "boyfriend" and son. a daughter who had much money spent on her. i am taking neither side, but be fair and do not hide the actions or character of the ex husband either. this in no way excuses ms. diaz (not ortiz) of what she's done. let justice prevail as i am sure it will. nonetheless, justice is available for all of the unjust. as a mutual friend, you probably shouldn't be offering what is in the "works," instead move forward. i'm sure the ex husband wouldn't want you practicing your "diarrhea of the mouth." in any case, this is truly sad. it just makes you wonder how many other people in the system are doing the same sort of thing. makes me want to remove my children out of the cps system.....
Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
she got probation, right? how is that justice? shouldn't she be in jail?
Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
To all who have commented on the misdeeds of the accused principal,
After reading comments on several blogs one must wonder if there is more than one Mirna Diaz?
Superstar Angel to the children or Murdering Sadam Dictator?
Thank God we live in a country where an accused is not judged by the media or bloggers.
Happy Bipolar
After reading comments on several blogs one must wonder if there is more than one Mirna Diaz?
Superstar Angel to the children or Murdering Sadam Dictator?
Thank God we live in a country where an accused is not judged by the media or bloggers.
Happy Bipolar
Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 4:45 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
wow, sounds like her family and friends are as much joy as she is. i wouldn't trust anyone with the carving knife at their family thanksgiving dinner!
FYI, bipolar, people judge other people. Grow up and get used to it. You are judging people by saying they are wrong for judging others, idiot. And this is always how media works, wether its a blog, the TV, or the town cryer. Its human if not animal nature to raise people on platforms just to dump them in the mud later.
FYI, bipolar, people judge other people. Grow up and get used to it. You are judging people by saying they are wrong for judging others, idiot. And this is always how media works, wether its a blog, the TV, or the town cryer. Its human if not animal nature to raise people on platforms just to dump them in the mud later.
Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Steve,
Wow, you called me an idiot?
By the way any idiot can write whatever they want on a blog and pretend to be a family member, friend, foe or an idiot!
An idiot would believe anything written on a blog as truth or falsehood.
Yes, people judge people, and my comment regarding the comments was not meant to be judgemental, simply an "opinion" in respect to the comments, nothing more.
FYI, I am a senior citizen. I am grown up. Thank God for freedom of speech.
You read much more into my, "After reading etc."
Happy Bipolar
Wow, you called me an idiot?
By the way any idiot can write whatever they want on a blog and pretend to be a family member, friend, foe or an idiot!
An idiot would believe anything written on a blog as truth or falsehood.
Yes, people judge people, and my comment regarding the comments was not meant to be judgemental, simply an "opinion" in respect to the comments, nothing more.
FYI, I am a senior citizen. I am grown up. Thank God for freedom of speech.
You read much more into my, "After reading etc."
Happy Bipolar
Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 2:10 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
There are so many principals who have gotten away with stealing it's not even funny - most of them get promoted. Problem with Diaz is that she is a woman who has some clout. Had her school been on the southside, she'd be in jail. She's a very lucky woman so whether we judge her or not, the only judge who counts didn't give her jail time. So get over it!!!!
PS - family members and friends, keep airing that dirty laundry. Everyone knows the reason her ex didn't want to make a stink is he didn't want everyone to know what a fool he was.
PS - family members and friends, keep airing that dirty laundry. Everyone knows the reason her ex didn't want to make a stink is he didn't want everyone to know what a fool he was.
Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Former family member you should be ashamed of yourself! However, you will be repaid for every waken hour of every waken day you must look yourself in the mirror. And you my friend have to live with yourself. How dare you throw that lady’s business out there like that, and then dare to use the disclaimer that the former husband did not, let me get it straight “This info has not came out because her former husband doesnt want the attention and honestly, doesnt want her to get in anymore trouble than she is!” You are much more a disgrace then he is! He is evil, spiteful, demonic and a true vindictive human being but human NOT! Did he tell you that he is such a pimp that he requested to receive her pension. Is he that hard up for money that he must receive alimony from his ex-wife or what is it called now-a-days maintenance? Mr. Manly Man receiving maintenance? Interesting? Doesn’t he work for CPS? How does he live with himself? He belittled her in public, was jealous of her family and was a very cruel individual to her and her daughters. So stop the crap and speak to truth. This anonymous tipster was HIM. He wanted to ruin her life because he could not live with the fact that she left him. She was accused, the counts were alleged. The bottom line is SHE was NOT found GUILTY, it is the game the courts play to handle their cases. The counts of this and that and that and this! The State's Attorney did not find any thing on her or else yes, she would be in jail. Get your facts straight people this is America and you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. And any of you ignorant fools who continue to try to and make her look like she was guilty leave our country you do not belong here. They had no proof! She was caught up in some sick little game where sick individuals wanted to see her fall and ruin everything she worked so hard to accomplish. So forget all the little b.s. from the poor mistreated former teachers, and the George N. Schmidt’s, and the bored sick and sad individuals who must find themselves having to write on this blog. Get a life people! Justice prevailed! The truth will set you free and the only TRUE judge is our God from up above in which case many of you will never get to meet. Once again my friends...She prevailed, after years of torment, embarrassment and disgrace. Ms. Mirna Diaz prevailed!
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Just a fly on the wall
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Just a fly on the wall
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Sounds like a sour family member who will not reep the benefits of Mirna Diaz-ORTIZ!!! She always wanted a starring role - you couldnt get any role bigger than this!!! Front page of the Chicago news and known world wide for her accomplishments - taking away form the children. She has taken so much money and "OTHER THINGS" from Nobel. Where did all the money come from when she put all all those shows and paid all her musicial="friends" It wasnt chump change. maybe her husband divorced her because he knew what she was doing and didnt want to be a part of it. If he is getting money from her GOOD FOR HIM!!!!!! Now she knows what it feels like!! i don't believe it is all over - money is still owed to the teachers who gave 100.00 - for making copies for the children. She wasnt about the CHILDREN she was about HERSELF!!! Always putting on a performance! On stage and off. She had so many characters - Ginda, on a good day, The wicked witch of the West, on most days. Most known for her role as the Narrator in Joseph - which she repeated 3 times - telling the story of the bible!!! Now does'nt that make you really wonder????? Well - what goes around comes around ....and we all believe and hope this is only the beginning!!! I hope she is keeping these newspaper clippings to show remind her self what a STAR she has become!!! Shame on you Mirna. And good for you Mr. Ortiz!!
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Unfortunately there are all too many principals like this one. When Spalding closed, I knew that there was more to the story than what was reported. Later, I sat in a Case Managers meeting and learned of the corruption among bus aides, supervisors and adminstration that cost the Board millions of dollars. They may be good people but power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We need to find a way to provide better supervision to the local schools so that these kinds of stories don't repeat themselves.
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
NOW APPEARING seems to have quite a bit of inside information. I wonder how much money NOW APPEARING received? Obviously it wasn't enough! It is obvious this person was close to the accused principal. I really feel sorry for the accused principal to have had someone like NOW APPEARING who was apparently in close proximity writing such vile accusations. Leave that family alone. I would think the last thing any family member would want is to write on this blog.
NOW APPEARING has theatrical undertones perhaps ALL ABOUT EVE would be a better name. God does not like ugly and NOW APPEARING is so ugly. Leave the bible out of this, that is blasemy. You will certainly go to hell since you are breaking one of the ten commandments. Putrid NOW APPEARING not sour family.
THE PLOT THICKENS
NOW APPEARING has theatrical undertones perhaps ALL ABOUT EVE would be a better name. God does not like ugly and NOW APPEARING is so ugly. Leave the bible out of this, that is blasemy. You will certainly go to hell since you are breaking one of the ten commandments. Putrid NOW APPEARING not sour family.
THE PLOT THICKENS
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
The nutty stuff on this board only leads me to believe Mirna herself is posting! Reminds me of one of her 'professional development' ranting-sessions. FYI, the snitch wasn't her ex-husband. I know that for a fact.
Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
Hank E how many times have you written on this blog? Except for George Schmit everyone has different names. You must be a few of them at the very least. OMG like I blogged several days ago to Steve any idiot can post as family, friend, or foe. Now I must add teacher? You are going to drive us bloggers crazy with your inside information. Tell us more. Everything on this blog is crazy. OMG it was U whoever u r unless u r the husband posing as Hank E. The accused principal guilty or not will forever be known as a thief plain and simple. She was crazy too? The deed is done gloating that u know for a fact who it is makes u a questionable blogger. Keep dancing on her grave and keep slinging mud. Her life as a principal is over Hank E. U don't need a "hanky" the principal does.
Happy Bipolar
Happy Bipolar
Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 7:16 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
maybe Bipolar is posting all these comments as friends, foes, relatives and teachers...she is bipolar, after all
and fyi you aren't a blogger, you simply post comments on Alex's blog
and fyi you aren't a blogger, you simply post comments on Alex's blog
Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I have an issue with the last comment as a mental health professional (I am certified by the state). Bipolar does not mean that a person has multiple personalties--that's another category. Bipolar simply means that a person has extreme highs and extreme lows (depression). Most have more of one than the other.
Tue Aug 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
why don't you take issue with bipolar calling herself bipolar, essentially making a joke of the serious condition? she's a jerk and gets what she deserves as does her family and supporters
Wed Oct 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
UMM WAT CAN I SAY BOUT DIZ PRINCIPAL WUZ A GOOD PERSON BUT SHE WUZ 2 BOSSY && THEN FOR HER FAULT OUR SCHOOL SUCKS!! && YOU KNOW WHAT IT STILL DOES NO MATTER WHAT! UGH CAN THIS SCHOOL GET ANY BORING && SUCK-IER!! GOSH MAN!!! SEE HAHAHA THAT'S WHAT YOU GET MRS. ORTIZ FOR STEALING THAT DAMN MONEY!!!!!BUT ANYWAYZ OUR SKOOL STILL SUCKS && WILL ALWAYS WILL BECAUSE OF HER!! BUT OH WELL THAT'S LIFE && WHAT CAN WE DO NOW.....
P.S HAHAH YOU GOT TO DO 800 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICES!!
P.S.S HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
SINCERLY, YOUR LOVABLE 8TH GRADERS HAHAHAHAH
09 LOVE
P.S HAHAH YOU GOT TO DO 800 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICES!!
P.S.S HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
SINCERLY, YOUR LOVABLE 8TH GRADERS HAHAHAHAH
09 LOVE
Wed Oct 1, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
as we were saying.......... nobel suck!
we got some slow as teachers like our art teacher.....so yyeah anyways............
we got some slow as teachers like our art teacher.....so yyeah anyways............
Wed Oct 1, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
I'm curious what is the difference between a blogger and someone who posts to a blog?
Wed Oct 1, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
'Bad things happen when good people do nothing. There were plenty of employees at Nobel that knew enough to blow the whistle and were too weak to do it. '
As said above, good people try to do something, but then you put you job and reputation on the line and then CPS comes after you. The corruption goes all the way to the top.--There is no whistle-blower pertection. They have the power to really hurt you when you follow the rules. And they use it often.
Look at Jones CP--another superstar principal promoted to Harper--left the accounts in a mess, sending resources from Jones to Harper and he gets a raise==go figure.
As said above, good people try to do something, but then you put you job and reputation on the line and then CPS comes after you. The corruption goes all the way to the top.--There is no whistle-blower pertection. They have the power to really hurt you when you follow the rules. And they use it often.
Look at Jones CP--another superstar principal promoted to Harper--left the accounts in a mess, sending resources from Jones to Harper and he gets a raise==go figure.
Wed Oct 1, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
others may disagree, but to me at least a blogger is someone who creates and maintains a blog. he or she posts entries, or writes posts. someone who writes on a blog is a reader or commenter, who writes comments. a blog is the website itself, not the individual post or comment.
-- alexander
-- alexander
Thu Oct 2, 2008 at 2:46 AM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
"...As said above, good people try to do something, but then you put you job and reputation on the line and then CPS comes after you. The corruption goes all the way to the top.--There is no whistle-blower pertection. They have the power to really hurt you when you follow the rules. And they use it often..." ("No protection " last night).
Having blown a big whistle and paid a huge price, I can't disagree with that statement.
However, we generally verify information and then publish, without attribution if there is a reason to protect the confidentiality of sources. That's different from our "Letters" (which have to be signed). So it's possible to blow a whistle and have someone check out facts to see if there is a story.
That didn't happen from Nobel. It did from Jones, by the way. Ditto Lane Tech. In both cases, because of clout, Arne moved principals around, and at somewhat higher pay. (Foley to Marshall as a "superstar principal"; Fraynd to Harper as the "Turnaround" chief -- both now being paid about $140,000 a year).
Everyone who watches knows that the Inspector General is in the business of blowing the whistle on the whistle blowers. So what else is new. That's been true at the IG's office since they had a corrupt ex- sheriff's cop as an "investigator" back when I was still teaching, at Bowen. The guy's name was Lemuel Hogue. People need to pay attention to the "who" in these little games that Arne Duncan and the rest of them play. It's all about cover up. But if you go in wearing rose colored glasses...
So provide information here and to other media with a proven record, and then be patient. But get over hoping for things to get nice in some abstract way.
The question remains: Why weren't those form Nobel who knew blowing the whistle seven or eight years ago? Then, as now, we were in business.
Having blown a big whistle and paid a huge price, I can't disagree with that statement.
However, we generally verify information and then publish, without attribution if there is a reason to protect the confidentiality of sources. That's different from our "Letters" (which have to be signed). So it's possible to blow a whistle and have someone check out facts to see if there is a story.
That didn't happen from Nobel. It did from Jones, by the way. Ditto Lane Tech. In both cases, because of clout, Arne moved principals around, and at somewhat higher pay. (Foley to Marshall as a "superstar principal"; Fraynd to Harper as the "Turnaround" chief -- both now being paid about $140,000 a year).
Everyone who watches knows that the Inspector General is in the business of blowing the whistle on the whistle blowers. So what else is new. That's been true at the IG's office since they had a corrupt ex- sheriff's cop as an "investigator" back when I was still teaching, at Bowen. The guy's name was Lemuel Hogue. People need to pay attention to the "who" in these little games that Arne Duncan and the rest of them play. It's all about cover up. But if you go in wearing rose colored glasses...
So provide information here and to other media with a proven record, and then be patient. But get over hoping for things to get nice in some abstract way.
The question remains: Why weren't those form Nobel who knew blowing the whistle seven or eight years ago? Then, as now, we were in business.
Thu Oct 2, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
screw it, lets all take money from the cps. they got lots of it. what do they need it for, they dont use it on the kids anyway. who gives a rats ass about this principal anymore. lets concentrate on obama handing his ass to mc cain and palin bending over for biden.
Sat Oct 4, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Nobel Principal Mirna Diaz Accused Of Stealing
George, you have no idea what you're talking about. You didn't blow a whistle, you published materials that were not your own. That's not blowing a whistle, thats theft.
No whistle blower has gotten in troble for informing on Ortiz. I also know that when Duncan got word of the problem it was resolved almost immediately.
Stop pointing fingers and spreading unsubtantiated crap. One reason people don't blow whistles in CPS is because of the horse shit people like you spread around, which scares people. Try to be part of the solution, George, because when you post that crap, you're not helping anyone.
No whistle blower has gotten in troble for informing on Ortiz. I also know that when Duncan got word of the problem it was resolved almost immediately.
Stop pointing fingers and spreading unsubtantiated crap. One reason people don't blow whistles in CPS is because of the horse shit people like you spread around, which scares people. Try to be part of the solution, George, because when you post that crap, you're not helping anyone.
