From HumanEvents, California's Affluent Schools Ooze Corruption
...last May a grand jury in conservative Orange County indicted the superintendent and assistant superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) on several felony counts of misuse of taxpayer funds.
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The Capistrano debacle started with discontent among parents over the skyrocketing cost of a planned district headquarters building. A local newspaper estimated the price tag at $52 million, double the original official estimate. Anger over this spending fiasco triggered a parent-supported recall campaign against school board members who backed the bureaucrats’ Taj Mahal. That, in turn caused district superintendent James Fleming, the highest paid superintendent in the county, to launch a vendetta against the parent-organizers of the recall.
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The Capistrano scandal is no anomaly. The San Mateo Unified High School District, located in a high-priced suburb just south of San Francisco, has been the focus of several recent grand jury investigations. One grand jury report found that the district faced a $164-million debt because costs for its construction projects far exceeded its construction budget. The grand jury also discovered sweetheart employment deals, including a consulting contract to the retired assistant of the district’s then-superintendent. The contract did not call for any specific accomplishments and allowed for large overtime payments without any documentation that work was ever performed.
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