The Delaware Auditor of Accounts just released an inspection report on Providence Creek Academy showing many violations in procurement card spending and very questionable payroll expenses. The office was tipped off over a year ago, around the same time as Family Foundations Academy, about alleged financial improprieties at the school, as well as the Delaware Department of Education. Abuses revolved around personal purchases through the State of Delaware p-card, payroll expenses that were not justified, and even a conference in Las Vegas in the Summer of 2014 that four employees of the school attended (as did representatives from Academy of Dover and Family Foundations Academy). The school’s auditor from 2012 to 2014 found none of this in their annual audits of the school.
While the abuses were not in the scope of Academy of Dover or Family Foundations Academy, they are still illegal and against the law. Please support State Rep. Kim Williams House Bill 186 to help prevent these abuses from being missed by the charter school auditors and to bring transparency to light before these investigative inspections even have to occur. Senator David Sokola’s Senate Bill 171 does nothing to stop these events from happening.
If other elected officials do not support Kim on this then they are as corrupt as the charter school employees who are stealing the money.
We have got to tighten the reigns on these charter schools. These charter school people are out of control!
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