How A Local Basketball Trainer Charged Kids $22K in Tuition to Attend (Free) Seattle Public School — and Got Away.

A NIKE EYBL coach ran rampant inside a SPS high school, charging illicit tuition & assuming the ID of SPS staff. SPS paid the principal $200k to quietly resign. The whistleblower wasn’t so lucky

J425 editorial cartoon.

Forgery, impersonation, fraud. Abuse of homeless student programs. Six figure hush-money payouts. Local fraudsters feasting on schools and walking away scot-free. The Alan Sugiyama High School/Great Futures Prep scandal is the prototypical Seattle Public Schools scandal, complete with the unsatisfying conclusion.

SEATTLE, 2024 — …