Glendale teachers surprised to find their taxes already filed -- fraudulently


by Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times— The IRS recently notified teachers, nurses, counselors and other faculty members in the Glendale Unified School District that they could not file their taxes this year because they already had — or at least somebody using their information did. In December, the school district with more than 25,000 Los Angeles County students learned that it was the latest victim of a ransomware attack aimed at institutions that store sensitive data, but lack the same type of security standards of a large...

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Daily Mail—More than half of primary schools have no ethnic minority teachers and nearly one in three don't have a male teacher, study finds. A Warwick Uni study found a quarter of schools only had white female teachers. But the proportion of schools with no diversity among staff has fallen since 2010

www.theyeshivaworld.com—140,000 Filed Their Taxes With The Free IRS Direct File Pilot, But The Program’s Future Is Unclear. The IRS said Friday that more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program and participants saved roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have otherwise spent with commercial tax preparation companies. The government pilot program, rolled out this tax season in 12 states, allows people with very simple W-2s […]