Another Failure of Florida’s Charter School Taxpayer Oversight
A link from StateImpact‘s John O’Connor finds a Fort Myers News-Press story which details that a Lee County charter school provided grossly inaccurate numbers of students enrolled in OJT. Writes reporter Ashley A. Smith:
An audit of Coronado High School found there was no documentation to show 465 students participated in an on-the-job course. The school could provide documentation of 13 students in the course. The audit at North Nicholas High revealed 102 of 372 students were incorrectly reported.Its not clear what led to the miscalculation in the first place. Did the management company cut corners with its
The management company and school district are awaiting a final report from DOE about the total amount owed, but both schools could pay a total maximum of about $500,000. However, the school district estimates North Nicholas owes $204,236 and Coronado owes $267,543, based on per-student funding from 2011.
