Media: PJS continues to ignore District 150’s bad audit
Posted in Local with tags audit, David Gorenz, District 150, Journal Star on February 4, 2009 by Billy DennisSo, here is the gist of today’s article on Peoria School District 150: ‘Gee, people sure are upset that our finances aren’t perfect. It’s all because school budgets are difficult to understand. So, let’s have Board President David Gorenz personally pick a group of ordinary citizens to will explain things to the unwashed masses.’
The Peoria Journal Star printed this crap without any critical analysis or background.
No doubt this group will include members of the Peoria Area Chamber of Commerce, which is on record praising the board for making decisions.
He’s what I want to see. I want to see ONE SINGLE ARTICLE from the Journal Star that mentions details from most recent audit — it’s available upon request from the district, for God’s sake — in which the auditor criticizes a $10.5 million budget discrepancy and complains about a slew of errors and omissions. It seems that the financial brainiacs who work for District 150 have a poor understanding how school finances work, too.
If actually requesting and reading the audit is too much hard work for stressed out reporters, they can always cut and paste the juicy parts from this article written by Elaine Hopkins. The Journal Star ought to be familiar with her work. She used to write for them.
