Last fall we told you about Meg Diaz's report on the Seattle School District budget and how her analysis showed that the district was spending much more on central administration that other comparable districts in the state.
This week a commenter reminded us that it needed follow-up, so we got the latest details from Diaz, who sent us the district's formal response to her analysis (attached as a PDF above).
The district's finance team found that:
- They had been miscoding some expenses as being overhead when other districts assign those costs to classroom instruction. The biggest item was teacher coaching, which was 111 employees and $10.3 million... (more)
more at Central District News
