Radley Balko


Bio

Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.

1 submission.

You’ll Stick With Your Crappy School, and You’ll Like It
by Radley Balko

Crazy case in Ohio, where a 40-year-old single mother lied about the residency of her children in order to get the  kids into a better public school. Kelley Williams-Bolar claimed her kids lived with their grandfather rather than with her in Akron. Instead of merely transferring the kids back to the bad school, local officials instead decided to charge Williams-Bolar with two felonies, claiming that by enrolling her kids in the better school, she defrauded taxpayers of more than $30,000.

 children-of-prisoners  family  motherhood  youth