Word: audits
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...article presented just one facet of the abundant case the Board has amassed in its audit of Campbell's administration. Throughout the semester, he proved unreliable, inefficient and apathetic to the Board's various ventures and travails. When confronted about his consistent absenteeism, he would often lash out unexpectedly with offensive language and personal attacks on other Board members. The Board had little choice but to give him repeated second chances, as we were in the process of restructuring and could not afford such an upheaval...
According to Donovan, the fellows arrived at Harvard over the weekend and will explore the campus and audit classes this coming week...
...which means that the maneuvering is getting serious. In response to a September letter signed by 21 Republican members of Congress, the Treasury Department has begun looking into the IRS decision to audit Jones and her husband Stephen, an inquiry begun just a few days after they reportedly turned down a $700,000 settlement offer from Clinton's lawyers. At first blush, revenge by audit would seem so heavy-handed and visible a tactic that no one would try it. That was what White House press secretary Mike McCurry meant in September when he said, "We do dumb things from...
Accordingly, Simmons said she convinced the committee to submit this year's budget to an audit. Three-quarters of the committee's current $87.2 million budget goes to paying teachers' salaries...
...congressional mandates deserve only part of the blame. Beginning early last year, the state attorney general's office started gathering an extraordinary collection of legal depositions from city-school administrators and teachers that describe a dysfunctional management culture--dubbed in an earlier management audit the "culture of complacency"--that hindered effective use of the money that Baltimore schools received each year. In particular the depositions provide telling testimony on the "dance of the lemons," a phrase education researchers use to describe the way school bureaucracies shuffle unproductive, even dangerous, employees from post to post...