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CSU officials probe accounting of public, private funds - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

CSU officials probe accounting of public, private funds

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 4A

California State University officials are concerned that they have erroneously mixed public and private funds in accounting for the foundations that support the system's 23 campuses, according to a report the California Faculty Association is releasing today.

The report is based on minutes from a series of closed-door meetings of CSU executives that a political researcher for the professors' union said she discovered online.

Minutes from a May 2010 meeting of the university's top business officials say they were trying to "clean up any mess before it gets to be bigger."

"There continue to be findings from the internal auditors that some campuses have monies held inappropriately by auxiliary organizations. The finding is that funds should be moved to the state

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West Campus High School proved again why it's one of the most sought-after schools in the Sacramento area after posting top scores on the California High School Exit Exam.

California State University officials are concerned that they have erroneously mixed public and private funds in accounting for the foundations that support the system's 23 campuses, according to a report the California Faculty Association is releasing today.
A candidate who unsuccessfully sought to block former state lawmaker Deborah Ortiz's name from the Nov. 2 ballot for the Los Rios Community College District board has been thwarted in efforts to receive an extension for his personal candidate's statement.
Theft of copper wire last night at an Orangevale Montessori school will send students home early.
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State education officials are reacting this morning to news that California wasn't a winner in round two of the Race to the Top competition for federal education funding.


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