Wizbang has the scoop on mismanaged school funds in Massachusetts:
State Auditor Joe DeNucci issued a scathing report yesterday on the Everett Public Schools that depicts a free-spending superintendent who blew school cash on homecoming, football and questionable consultants with little regard for bidding and other spending laws. The far-reaching 85-page audit - following a Herald report on the troubled school system - reveals a school business office rife with phony bids and other procurement shenanigans, unlicensed teachers in the classroom and a district overseen by a rubber-stamp school committee.
I'm not sure which Boston Herald article is referred to here, but the staff of the BH certainly can't say enough bad things about the school district:
Yesterday Auditor Joe DeNucci's office confirmed in an 87-page report what we have suspected all along - that the administration of the Everett Public Schools is a cesspool.
I'd say "cesspool" is an appropriate word for a school district that spent $59K on $59,000 "lettering football team helmets, data processing, set-up for a homecoming parade and various painting projects" instead of MCAS tutoring. Think that school district didn't need any tutoring? Think again.
Posted by kswygert at May 12, 2005 12:41 PM