Someone dropped the ball

by: Jason Springer

Fri Nov 28, 2008 at 11:22:34 AM EST

A paperwork snafu proves costly for the Camden school district.

It means the district must return nearly $400,000 in unspent federal aid that it wanted to roll over from the 2004-2005 school year to the following year.

School board President Sara Davis said she feels state officials "share some of the blame" for the district losing the money. She said it would have been used to fund certain math and reading programs that state officials wanted to discontinue.

And on that sharing of blame for the state, as Camden is an Abbott district shouldn't they actually be paying attention to what is going on. Why did it take the state so long to do an audit and figure out the money was missing? It's amazing how many people are watching the store but no one is paying attention. Say it with me, we screwed up.  Now that wasn't hard, was it?