Audit criticizes Broward County spending

Feb. 25, 2008
Report says district mismanaged classroom construction projects

An independent audit raising concerns about how the Broward County (Fla.) School District awards construction contracts. The audit, which focused on a project that added hundreds of classrooms to district schools, says the district abused its contract, bypassed competitive bids and paid a select number of contractors questionably high fees. What started as a $30 million, eight-school, yearlong project ballooned into a $183 million, 52-school mission that still isn't complete, the audit says.

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