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Charter Schools

The founder and former CEO of Celerity Educational Group, a so-called nonprofit, was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in federal prison for conspiring to swipe $3.2 million in public money from the schools; Vielka Maritza McFarlane, 56, spent some of it on foreign vacations and “customized recreational bicycles,” prosecutors said.

LOS ANGELES — The founder and former CEO of Celerity Educational Group, a so-called nonprofit, was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in federal prison for conspiring to swipe $3.2 million in public money from the schools. Prosecutors said Vielka Maritza McFarlane, 56, spent some of it on foreign vacations and “customized recreational bicycles.”

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