Sixteen Sacramento city firefighters were paid an extra $50,000 cumulatively for higher education credits they earned from online schools that often grant degrees with little or no course work or classroom study, a newspaper reported.
Their 5 percent raises were stopped after fire officials began investigating when a dozen more firefighters applied for the pay hikes, according to city payroll records and other documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee under the California Public Records Act.
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Hmmm. Kinda like a King County (Seattle) sheriff's candidate that I outed.
Getting a pay premium from a diploma mill.
Article here:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/239247_fuda03.html
Not nearly enough of this kind of FOIA work...thanks for the link!
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