Public schools are the foundation of American education, and few were better than Roslyn High School in Nassau County, New York. The school’s success was largely due to one man, its ambitious superintendent, Frank Tassone. But when Frank’s key lieutenant is caught up in a scandal, it threatens everything, even Frank.

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Sources:

-The Bad Superintendent — NY Magazine
-The Real-Life Fraud Behind HBO's "Bad Education" — ACFE Insights
-Where Are Pamela Gluckin And Frank Tassone, From The 'Bad Education' Embezzlement Scheme, Now? — Oxygen
-On Top of the News at Roslyn High — The New York Times
-Roslyn Union Free School District: Anatomy of A Scandal — Office of New York State Comptroller Scribd
-NYC Renter Household Incomes Grew Faster Than Rents Between 2014 and 2015 — NYU Furman Center Blog
-Former Schools Chief of Roslyn Gets 4 to 12 Years in Fraud — NYT
-From the archives: Roslyn school district embezzlement — Newsday
-Ex-administrator pleads guilty in embezzlement case — Associated Press
-Roslyn HS reporter who broke 'Bad Education' story speaks 16 years later - The Island Now — The Island Now
-Roslyn Union Free School Dist. v Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman LLP — New York Court Records
-Four Indicted in Roslyn School District's Financial Scandal — NYT
-Bad Education: Hugh Jackman HBO film criticised by real-life subject for ‘sordid’ depiction of sexuality — The Independent