Madfloridian's Journal - Two FL charter schools owe half a million to Lee county. Gave wrong number of students.

I read the word "error" in the article, but that is not an error. It is not just an error when the school reports that 465 students were in a course, yet they can only document 13 students.

There are names for that, and "error" is not one of them.

From Lee County Florida.

Charter high schools owe Lee school district

North Nicholas High and Coronado High schools reported inaccurate numbers of students participating in on-the-job training programs, the state audit shows.

An audit of Coronado High School found there was no documentation to show 465 students participated in an on-the-job course. In a letter from Coronado Principal Arthur Nauss to the Florida auditor general, the school could provide documentation of 13 students in the course.

These schools were getting money that otherwise would have gone to public schools, and they were getting it by screwing up the numbers.

The district’s preliminary estimates show North Nicholas owes $204,236 and Coronado owes $267,543, based on per-student funding from 2011, said Lee County schools Budget Director Ami Desamours.

Those are not errors, there are other names for doing business like that with taxpayer money.

The article says there were a number of other mistakes, including missing paperwork students who speak languages other than English.

“Each case is different, so we look at such things as the level of severity, whether or not the misconduct appears to have been negligent or deliberate and the capacity of the school to make the necessary corrections,” McCullers said, in an email. “In this case, the error turned out to be costly for the schools, but it does appear to be a procedural problem that can be successfully remedied.”

McCullers is Lee schools director for grants and program development and liaison to public charter schools. Someone needs to sit him down and have a talk about "levels of severity" and all of his other excuses.