Beacon School Trades With The Enemy

Manhattan’s Beacon School gets the full Michael Moore treatment from the Treasury Department:

The Beacon School’s field trips to Cuba have generated the interest of the Treasury Department, which is investigating a community group that may have organized the trips.

An official at the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Dale Thompson, wrote to Pastors for Peace/Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization last year to request records and notify it that his office was “currently conducting a civil investigation of this matter.”

The group supports travel to Cuba, and participants in the Beacon School field trips say the group organized their travel to the communist country. The trips, at least some of which violated federal law, do not appear to have received authorization from top officials at the city’s Department of Education. They did, however, receive the written endorsement of at least two politicians, Lieutenant Governor David Patterson and Rep. Jerrold Nadler. Both later said they were unaware the trip was being undertaken in violation of the federal travel ban.

The city’s Department of Investigation is also looking into the field trips.

More importantly, do parents understand that the school recently performed “Urinetown”?