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Financial records reveal school board spent public money on home furnishings

Financial records reveal school board spent public money on home furnishings:

Financial records reveal school board spent public money on home furnishings



Posted: 03/23/2012
Last Updated: 5 hours and 16 minutes ago
PHOENIX - A Valley charter high school used public funds to pay for and fully furnish a residential home in a neighborhood less than a half a mile from the school.
According to financial documents supplied to the ABC15 Investigators by the Vicki A Romero High School , a Phoenix charter school, the school paid more than $48,681 for upgrades, repairs, and amenities before a salaried school employee moved into the home for several months.
Maricopa County Assessor’s records show the purchase of the house cost the school $40,000.
State Department of Education documents show the school, which enrolls between three and four hundred high school students each year, received more than two and a




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