May 18, 2005
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Joseph Gillis Jr.
You can do something!
In this past Sunday's Boston Globe was a story titled "State lacking in oversight of school spending". The last three sentences (saved the best for last) say it all:
Given the amount of state money going to schools for instruction, the state should consider creating an educational oversight division within the state auditor's office, DeNucci said.
But school committees, DeNucci and others said, should be the primary guardians of school district spending.
''That's where the accountability has to begin," said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a fiscal watchdog organization.
Accountability beginning with our local School Committee - this has been a primary goal of mine for a long time.
