Re: "Charter schools scramble for audits" in the Jan.
20 Star Tribune: "The Minnesota Legislature invented charter schools, with good, bad, and indifferent results around the country, and a fundamental flaw.
The law should have funded and required mandatory state auditors, the lack of which is now melting down numerous charters in the state," writes James P.Lenfestey.
"At minimum, legislators should provide funds for the Department of Education to provide all charter school auditing functions as a cost of the charter, so teachers can teach, and preventing at least some the education disasters underway now."
Also: "The idealistic teachers were never accountants, and the other groups needed solid accounting oversight to prevent the pilfering of public-school dollars."
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