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Deborah:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mp ... an/3131800

April 12, 2005, 9:51PM

County may help troubled program
Schools for young offenders stay open despite contractor's bankruptcy
By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

A Harris County program that provides schools for 1,200 juvenile offenders and youths expelled from their home schools will continue to operate despite the bankruptcy of the company that runs it, a county official said Tuesday.

Harvey Hetzel, director of the county's Juvenile Probation Department, told Commissioners Court that the county can temporarily take over management of the program if necessary.

Brown Schools Inc. teaches about 600 youths in schools at the county's six detention facilities.

It also runs a two-campus, state-mandated program for about 600 students expelled by local school districts.

The Austin-based company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy March 25.

Its assets, including its contract with the county, will be sold.

"We got no warning. At 8 o'clock on Good Friday, they filed," Hetzel said. "We aren't in a panic mode. We've got it under control."

Brown Schools runs boarding schools and educational facilities for youths in Texas, California, Florida, Idaho and Vermont.

Brown officials didn't return calls.

Brown has managed the two county programs since 1998.

Required education
The juvenile probation department is required by state law to provide alternative education for students facing mandatory expulsion for committing crimes, such as bringing guns to school, and others expelled at a school district's discretion.

Brown was paid $3.8 million to run the two-campus school for such students and another $4.3 million to run schools at detention facilities, Hetzel said.

State and federal money was used to pay for the programs' costs, Hetzel said.

The court-appointed trustee overseeing the bankruptcy has said Brown Schools will continue running its schools until April 22.

That period could be extended, but if it is not, the county is working to keep Brown's staff intact and pay them with money that the county would have paid to Brown, Hetzel said.

It is too late for the county to put out a bid to provide school services starting in August.

The county may end up managing the schools for the 2005-2006 school year, and then seek bids for the 2006-2007 year, Hetzel said.

No local operation links
Brown Schools' methods have drawn criticism from state regulators and resulted in lawsuits against it, the Austin-American Statesman reported.

Hetzel said he did not believe that any of the six legal settlements that led to $425,000 in unsecured claims listed in the bankruptcy filing stemmed from Brown School's operations in Harris County.

Most of the lawsuits were brought by former residents of the company's residential treatment programs, not their school operations, Hetzel said.

bill.murphy@chron.com

Deborah:
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/art ... news03.txt

Trustee doubts lawsuit's validity
Posted: Saturday, Apr 16, 2005 - 10:08:26 am PDT
By ELIZABETH CIEPIELA
Hagadone News Network

BONNERS FERRY -- The Brown Schools' bankruptcy trustee George Miller says he doubts whether a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by former CEDU employees against McCown, De Leeuw & Co. (MDC) is valid since it wasn't filed in Delaware.

"You gotta file it in Delaware," Miller said Friday. "If it's not filed in Delaware, we don't have to respond to it."

"Any lawsuit against the bankrupt organization ... in my opinion, has to be brought in bankruptcy court."

Miller is a tax accountant by profession.
 
But the prosecuting attorney for the class-action lawsuit, Robert S. Banks, said the lawsuit was valid.

"We don't have anything to do with a bankruptcy," Banks said. "We're not suing the Brown Schools. We're suing MDC and that is our only defendant. I don't see how the bankruptcy court could have any jurisdiction."

Officials with the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware could not be reached for comment; neither could the federal court in Coeur d' Alene.

On Friday, MDC received the court summons. The company has 20 days to respond. MDC did not return calls for comment.

Banks maintains MDC is responsible for the abrupt closure of the Brown Schools.

"We gathered the facts that we were able to gather, and it sure looked to us like McCown (MDC) had a significant amount of influence at the Brown Schools," Banks said. "It looks like the company made the decision to close those schools without notice."

"I think it's a very good case," he added. "When you have a third party controlling an employer and actually ... making management decisions about how the employers are to be operated ... then there is liability on that third party."

Anonymous:
http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/art ... tter01.txt

CEDU clarification
"Thank you for your coverage of the tragic closing and Chapter 7 filing of The Brown Schools in your April 6 edition. However, your story contained a number of factual errors, which need to be corrected for the record by your publication.
Your news story gives an erroneous impression to your readers on many key issues regarding ownership of the schools and the decision making surrounding the bankruptcy filing, and confuses operations with investment. Rather than reply to each specific statement, we have provided an overall correction of several facts below. Please make, as quickly as possible, the following factual corrections in the next edition of your publication:
The decision to close the CEDU facilities and file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection was made and announced by The Brown Schools' board of directors in order to protect the safety of the students at the schools.
Neither McCown De Leeuw & Co. (MDC), nor any of its employees, were part of the decision by the Board; and in fact MDC did not have any employees on the board of The Brown Schools at the time of the filing. Additionally, please note that David De Leeuw has not been active with MDC for several years, and was never involved with The Brown Schools.
The CEDU facilities were owned by The Brown Schools. CEDU was not, and has never been, owned directly by MDC. Further, MDC has never been responsible for the day-to-day management of The Brown Schools or any of its subsidiaries, and no one serving in the day-to-day management of the company did so while an employee of MDC.
As an investor in and a major creditor of The Brown Schools, MDC did everything in its power to preserve the operations of the schools, including unsuccessful attempts to facilitate debtor-in-possession financing with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, the company's senior lender. In fact, over the past several years, MDC has repeatedly provided millions of dollars to help maintain the programs offered at the schools, without receiving payments in return. With the bankruptcy, MDC is left being owed over $20 million by The Brown Schools.
SAM SINGER
San Francisco, Calif."


Who is Sam Singer?

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Investigate Mark Wasserman  ,  sociopath and dishonest swindler who lied to the brown schools and told them it was legally profitable.  palm springs is a mafia town .   selfish me first fuck everybody else  narcisstic  screw all of you wasserman.

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