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Ingrid Gant, former president of the Arlington Education Association (AEA) a Virginia teacher's union, was arrested and charged with embezzling 410,782.10 from the organization, police said in a press release from the Fairfax County Police Department.
Gant, 54, of Woodbridge, was president for six years before being caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar. She was terminated on March 30, 2022 and the board was forced to hire board members from an outside source.
Gant was charged with four counts of embezzlement allegedly using debit cards for unauthorized purchases and providing herself with multiple bonuses for the great job she believed she was doing on behalf of herself.
It took about six months after investigators began reviewing her activity to discover she had given herself $350,000 in bonuses and pay from 2020 to 2022, and charged about $70,000 on business debit cards for such items as gas, Amazon purchases and even food.
The AEA represents over 15,000 Arlington public school teachers. During her tenure as president of the teacher's union, Gant drew backlash over her COVID-19 policies.
One homeschool took to Twitter to expose the union after it sent a letter riddled with grammatical and typographical errors. [H/T Fox News.]
Ellen Gallery, a homeschooling mother of three who lives in the area, claimed that she and her kids had gone through the letter, correcting mistakes. The mother posted a picture of the letter with copious corrections, faulting AEA for leaving out words, adding unnecessary commas, confusing subject-verb agreement, and more.
One offending pair of sentences read, "The fire departments in are region are exemplifying domino outbreaks as well. APS employees are no different or above this trend, yet leadership prepares to send educators into situations that will make them sick." In the first sentence, Gant used "are" when she clearly meant to write "our." Gallery and her kids suggested "neither different nor above" for the second sentence.
Ellen Gallery, a homeschooling mother of three who lives in the area, claimed that she and her kids had gone through the letter, correcting mistakes. The mother posted a picture of the letter with copious corrections, faulting AEA for leaving out words, adding unnecessary commas, confusing subject-verb agreement, and more.
One offending pair of sentences read, "The fire departments in are region are exemplifying domino outbreaks as well. APS employees are no different or above this trend, yet leadership prepares to send educators into situations that will make them sick." In the first sentence, Gant used "are" when she clearly meant to write "our." Gallery and her kids suggested "neither different nor above" for the second sentence.
The Virginia Education Association sent Fox News Digital a statement from Gant explaining the errors, sharing that the district sent out the draft instead of the final letter--as if the draft's grammar was not a reflection of the writer's grammatical acumen.
Detectives are asking anyone with information about this case to call the Major Crimes Bureau at 703-246-7800.
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