RALEIGH — The North Carolina Local Government Commission unanimously approved an independent audit to be conducted for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools related to the district’s $46 million budget deficit and financial mismanagement at its September meeting.
The audit will aim to fix the school district’s poor financial controls, with the Local Government Commission (LGC) and the Department of Public Instruction selecting a qualified auditor, state Treasurer Brad Briner’s office said in a press release.
Briner, who sits on the State Board of Education, expressed frustration over the school board’s oversight failures. He remarked that, as a father of four school-age children, “reading this makes me so angry for the people in Forsyth County who elected a school board who obviously wasn’t paying attention” going back at least to 2017…