Why Were AG Agents at Board of Ed Meeting?
Heads understandably turned at last week's meeting of the Scranton School District Board of Education: two plainclothes investigators from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General were on hand to discreetly take notes. Why were they there? Informed observers believe it is linked to the investigation requested by the school board back in January. Directors took the move after Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released a scathing performance audit of the district's finance and operations. DePasquale said his 2017 performance audit of the Scranton School District, Lackawanna County, shows serious financial instability and an extreme level of board and administrative staff dysfunction rarely observed...