Editorial: Sacramento school board should apologize, return unearned stipends
Published: Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 - 12:00 am
Don’t show up, don’t get paid – unless you’re on the Sacramento city school board.
As The Bee’s Loretta Kalb reported Sunday, the Sacramento City Unified School District paid thousands of dollars to board members for meetings they missed in at least the last 16 months, apparently violating state law and board policy along the way.
District officials should be mortified they allowed this to go on for so long. Who knows how long it would have continued if not for The Bee’s investigation?
Board members owe a public apology to taxpayers and parents, who have every right to be angry. What’s more, board members should figure out how to return any money they didn’t earn.
Not that they have much choice, but board members appear to be treating this with the