Apparently polygamy and fraud go together, at least when it comes to allocating school funds:
Arizona officials already have seized a truckload of records, computers and other material in a criminal investigation of the school district serving an isolated polygamist community in northwestern Arizona. Now, the state is preparing to take over the district itself...That came after the district missed deadlines to file budget reports to the state and ran out of money, leaving teachers unpaid for several months last year. The paychecks resumed after an insurer began to cover the district's IOUs...The district is located in Colorado City, Ariz., where a polygamist sect - the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - controls the town and the schools...
...There are indications the district's money has been misdirected, with district facilities and equipment used for personal gain...there also are allegations that adults filled out standardized test forms last spring.
Misusing the funds sound like it was the last straw for the Arizona government.
Posted by kswygert at August 9, 2005 03:58 PM