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  • CA: State audit finds charter schools owe state more than $57 million

    08/09/2006 7:58:12 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 315+ views
    ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 8/9/06 | Juliet Williams - ap
    SACRAMENTO A chain of family operated charter schools overcharged the state more than $57 million over three years and paid its two top executives a total of $644,000 in one year to run schools for at-risk students, a state audit released Wednesday found. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell immediately referred the audit of the for-profit Opportunities for Learning and the nonprofit Options for Youth schools to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, but the schools' operators challenged the findings. Spokeswoman Kerry Mazzoni, a former secretary of education, said the eight schools and more than 40 independent study satellite centers serve...