Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 4:02:22 GMT -6
Schools superintendents rebut Florida legislators’ claim of wasteful construction spending
Florida school superintendents are irate over lawmaker allegations that their districts have misspent millions of dollars on construction projects over the past decade.
The district leaders contend state House leaders misrepresented their spending by “cherry picking” data to make the school systems look bad to taxpayers.
A Jan. 21 House presentation that indicated districts far exceeded state spending caps, was “not accurate, and the methodology used in the report to calculate ... costs is flawed, thereby the resulting conclusions are not sound,” Orange County Superintendent Barbara Jenkins wrote to lawmakers on behalf of the state superintendents association.
Some officials suggested the House members might have created a misleading document as a prelude to shifting local tax collections for school construction projects from districts to charter schools. Lawmakers have fruitlessly floated that idea for several years.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article58053508.html
Florida school superintendents are irate over lawmaker allegations that their districts have misspent millions of dollars on construction projects over the past decade.
The district leaders contend state House leaders misrepresented their spending by “cherry picking” data to make the school systems look bad to taxpayers.
A Jan. 21 House presentation that indicated districts far exceeded state spending caps, was “not accurate, and the methodology used in the report to calculate ... costs is flawed, thereby the resulting conclusions are not sound,” Orange County Superintendent Barbara Jenkins wrote to lawmakers on behalf of the state superintendents association.
Some officials suggested the House members might have created a misleading document as a prelude to shifting local tax collections for school construction projects from districts to charter schools. Lawmakers have fruitlessly floated that idea for several years.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article58053508.html