CLIVE, Iowa, Oct. 16 (UPI) — The Des Moines Public School District is requesting an audit from the Iowa Auditor’s Office after the arrest of its former superintendent last month.
The school board said in a press release Tuesday that the audit will add costs but it seeks to validate that its processes and procedures are strong. The process under which it hired Ian Roberts, the former superintendent who was detained by. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, has come into question from state lawmakers and the Justice Department.
State Auditor Rob Sand, who is running as a Democrat to succeed Gov. Kim Reynolds, invited valid requests to audit the school district during a press conference on Tuesday. As he took to the podium he had not yet received such a request.
Sand held the press conference to clarify how the audit process could begin. This was in response to three Republicans in the Iowa Senate calling on Sand to open an audit into the district’s spending and hiring practices. He explained they do not meet the criteria to make such a request, making it a request for his office to break the law…