Should I stop holding my breath? Because my colleague Lori Stahl's story this morning sure makes it look like there will be no post-mortem on exactly how and why the district's spending ran into a ditch last year. Which is...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** This video ought to played on a loop during the next school board meeting. ** Our coverage today: The main story; a first-person account; a job fair. A photo slide...
You can see the public documents regarding Anderson's resignation from the district here. Anderson, of course, is the former Chief Operating Officer and so far he is the biggest head to roll in the budget fiasco. Anderson has, thus far,...
UPDATED 3:56 P.M. Yesterday's bombshell that the district is $64-million in the red is, as we say in the news biz, still developing. So what I've got for you now is bunch of loose ends, background info and random tidbits...
A couple of items leftover from last night's board meeting... The district is short on cash, and wants to borrow $125 million to tide it over until state aid starts flowing at the start of the coming school year. How...
Some interesting stuff yesterday's budget briefing didn't make it into the paper this morn because I only had about 30 minutes to bang out a story and I was limited to 300 words. So here it is ... The district...