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U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Ex-Senate Aide Gets 3 Years for Child Porn
A former Senate aide was sentenced yesterday to a three-year prison term on a federal charge of possession of child pornography.
James Michael McHaney, 28, of the District, was arrested Nov. 30 in a sting operation and fired from his job in the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). He pleaded guilty in February in U.S. District Court.
Prosecutors said McHaney exchanged pornographic images of children with an undercover police informant. He was arrested when he tried to meet an underage boy in a sting set up at the informant's home, prosecutors said. When McHaney was arrested, he had a flash drive containing more than 1,000 images of child porn, authorities said.
Judge Thomas F. Hogan also ordered that McHaney serve 10 years of supervised release once he gets out of prison.
D.C. SCHOOLS
Teachers, Staff Receive Bonuses for Student Scores
The District's middle school students are not the only ones pocketing cash for putting up good numbers. Teachers and staff members at seven D.C. public schools received more than $1.5 million in performance bonuses Thursday for producing big gains in student test scores.
Teachers, paraprofessionals and other staff from Aiton, Hearst, Raymond and Thomas elementary schools, Winston Education Center, Sharpe Health School and Mamie D. Lee School were honored by the city's TEAM program for helping to raise standardized test scores in reading and math by more than 20 percent. The awards, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, are administered by D.C. schools in partnership with the Washington Teachers' Union and the nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools.
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said it was particularly important that all the employees of the winning schools shared the money, which averaged about $3,600 per person.
"It's because the entire school and every single adult in it is working toward the same outcome," Rhee said.
-- Bill Turque
