School Tech Connect: The Abyss:
by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)
It does not surprise me that they're just throwing money at people and
not even tracking it. That's how these things work.
In Florida, state officials had no records of which schools received federal grant money nor which schools received on-site monitoring and audits. Florida received $67.6 million.
Seriously, go read
the entire story. DOE has given away almost a billion dollars to charter schools since 2008, and yet there's this:
Additionally, the audit, which was conducted by San Francisco-based education research company WestEd, found that the office did not review expenditures to ensure they met with federal disbursement requirements.
On a related note, I have for a couple of years been trying to get my arms around the relationship between the New Market Tax Credit program and the construction of charter schools. It's a long story;
