EdSource Today: Districts pocketing school lunch money for other expenses

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A report commissioned by the state Senate has exposed a little-noticed problem that investigators suspect could be a prevalent scam: school districts improperly siphoning school meals revenue to cover other expenses.

According to the report by the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, some districts have cut corners on the federally subsidized school lunch and breakfast programs ­– by operating rundown facilities, serving processed instead of fresh food, going shorthanded in the kitchen – in order to build big surpluses in their meals budgets. The districts then have spent the surplus money on other things: in the case of Los Angeles Unified, lawn sprinklers and salaries at a district-run TV station. There’s no indication that personal graft was involved.

via Districts pocketing school lunch money for other expenses – by John Fensterwald.

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