Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Is It Still 'For the Children?'

The Ellis County Press broke the story today about a Texas Education Agency audit finding that Waxahachie ISD inflated their attendance records to boost state aid, a move that forced WISD to pay back more than $100,000.

There's still the question of the missing $114,000 the TEA audit division couldn't account for.


Reporting by The Ellis County Press several weeks ago, as well as continuous updates on BestSouthwestBlog.com (a sister blog to The Ellis County Observer), finally got the Dallas Morning News' attention on the Lancaster ISD financial problems (to get a better grasp of this, Lancaster bordered the now-defunct Wilmer-Hutchins ISD).

The DMN is reporting what the independent Press and its blog (Observer) have already reported on, which is that TEA audits and financial records of the LISD show mismanagement and inflated attendance records to boost state aid.

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