Audits flag spending by poor districts

Source  http://www.nj.com

In other areas, Asbury Park paid $4,280 for golf shirts and jackets for athletic coaches. Gloucester City paid $6,116 for rain jackets for the football team. 

All of the expenditures, except travel, were flagged by auditors who looked at information from the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years in 27 of the state's Abbott Districts, released last week by the Department of Education.

But many of the practices questioned may soon come to an end.

The department used the findings to develop new rules for school districts and to shape the job description of the new executive county superintendents, in an attempt to enhance the accountability of all districts.

The audits of all 31 Abbott districts can be found at www.state.nj.us/education under the finance section. CONTINUE

Note from Bill: I checked the link, and I couldn't find the audit on Gloucester City's Abbott District. If you find it would you send it to  me, BillGCN@verizon.net.

What I did find is this link,  The DOE Comparative spending guide