FBI investigating Promethean Activboard purchases in Florida and Iowa

Waterloo superintendent named in FBI probe

WATERLOO - Waterloo Community Schools Superintendent Gary Norris told The Courier Thursday he is among three people being investigated by the FBI for the purchase of Promethean Activboards in Florida and Waterloo.

Norris said in an interview that he does not know why he is a subject of the investigation. The Waterloo school district is installing Activboards in all classrooms at a cost of about $3.5 million. The interactive electronic white boards work as a computer screen and can be used by teachers for streaming videos or to create lesson plans.

"I've never received a dime from Promethean that I can think of," said Norris, who gave copies of a subpoena naming him to The Courier. "I don't know that I've taken anything of value from them."

Norris is named in the subpoena issued to Waterloo Community Schools and the Sarasota County (Fla.) School District by the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Fla. Robert and Lora Hanson, a Florida couple that did consulting work for Waterloo Schools, are also named in the subpoena...(continues at link above)

-Parents' Coalition webpage on Promethean board purchases in Montgomery County Public Schools. 


-Parents' Coalition blog posts on MCPS' presentations on Promethean boards in London,  Sarasota, Florida, San Antonio, Texas and Washington, D.C.


UPDATE 3/19/10:  FBI seeks records from Sarasota County school district