Four years, two superintendents and one bruising state financial
report after the Prince George’s County Council came up with the idea,
officials are in the last stages of launching a comprehensive
performance audit of the school system.
Council member Derrick
Leon Davis (D-Mitchellville) sought an audit in 2011, under
then-Superintendent William R. Hite Jr., after years of upheaval in
school governance left many residents skeptical of how resources were
being used.
“We knew that if we were going to make a more
significant investment, we needed it,” he said of a systemwide audit,
which has not been done since 1998. “It will tell us what we get for the
money we spend.”
In seeking the audit, Davis was trying to
address some of the same concerns — about transparency, trust and
accountability — dominating the debate about County Executive Rushern L.
Baker III’s plan to raise property taxes to generate additional dollars
for the school system...
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