{"id":285601,"date":"2026-09-14T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285601\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:36:20","slug":"former-philly-principal-must-pay-back-nearly-32000-never-deposited-from-book-fairs-and-graduation-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285601\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Philly principal must pay back nearly $32,000 never deposited from book fairs and graduation fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The former principal of a Philadelphia elementary school will have to pay back nearly $32,000 in missing student funds.<\/p>\n<p>A report by the Philadelphia School District\u2019s inspector general says the principal failed to deposit nearly $32,000 from book fairs and graduation fees during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and is personally liable for the money. <\/p>\n<p>The report does not name the principal or the school, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/education\/missing-money-pollock-elementary-school-inspector-general-report-20260908.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> identified the principal as Yvette Jackson, who retired from Pollock Elementary School in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The report does not accuse the former principal of stealing the money; rather, it says she is liable for the losses resulting from the failure to exercise proper oversight and accounting of the money. <\/p>\n<p>The inspector general recommended that the missing money be withheld from the former principal\u2019s termination pay for unused time off and sick leave. <\/p>\n<p>The district did not comment, but in the report, it said the former principal \u201cacknowledged receipt of the memo and did not object to the proposed withholding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The former principal of a Philadelphia elementary school will have to pay back nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,521,1998],"class_list":["post-285601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}