Audit Finds Officials Falsified School Budgets
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An independent audit detailing the state’s $60-million takeover of the Vallejo City Unified School District finds the former superintendent and her finance chief falsified budgets and duped board members to hide mounting financial problems. The audit says the district projected a 10% enrollment boost in 2003, worth $8 million in state funding, even though it was losing students.
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