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Title: Audit Finds $3 Million in Federal Funds Misspent by San Diego Schools

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/01/03/education/933oig010308.txt

Summary:  The voice of San Diego reports on a controversial finding regarding San Diego Schools receiving Title I funds and the mismanagement of such funds which were used for outside programs and may or may not have been repaid back to the Title I funds—an upward amount of $3 million.

 

Topic: http://msaraceno.wordpress.com/question/

 

Category:  This is a journalistic source.

 

What is it? This is an online newspaper article published on a site called the voice of San Diego.

 

Publication Information:  Voice of San Diego.  January 3, 2008. 

 

Author:  Emily Alpert, Voice Staff Writer

 

Location: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/01/03/education/933oig010308.txt

Accessed: February 6, 2009

 

Support: David Page, chairperson of the district’s Advisory Council for Compensatory Education.

Camille Zombro, president of the San Diego Education Association

Sheila Vickers, vice president of School Services of California

All of the sources seem to be evaluating the situation, as it stands, each giving their professional take on it.  Each person clearly expresses (together) a lack of knowledge regarding how the Title I funds work altogether and how to sort through this mess.

 

Audience and Agenda: This article addresses an audience specifically in the San Diego area as the issues covered in the newspaper are in accordance to things going on in San Diego.   This is a nonprofit newspaper and thus depends fully on donations by citizens or corporations looking to advertise.

 

Usefulness:  This source is useful in exposing a potential break down of the current nature of Title I funds, which are shifted to wherever schools, with no accountability, want to put it.  The idea this article is calling out for is more federally regulated functioning to help hold schools accountable in order to maintain the integrity of the Title I funds.  However, as stated in the article, the federal government seemingly supports the misspending of San Diego and not pushing to hold them accountable for such misappropriations.  Such information is very important to my question because it shows the inadequacy of all sides in the Title I fund equation.  I appreciate the journalistic approach to this topic as it really went all out in providing a plethora of sources on all sides of this problem.  I plan to use this information as an example of what is wrong with not supervising closely when you are handing out money to programs—specifically the Title I funds.

 

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