Appoquinimink had years of financial errors, auditor finds

Why Should Delaware Care?After the Appoquinimink School District raised its local tax rate by 10% following an accounting scandal, frustrated residents have sought answers as to how the errors occurred. A review of finances identified years of compounding errors in the school district’s bookkeeping

The state auditor didn’t find any evidence of theft or fraud in a review of Appoquinimink School District’s finances, but its bookkeeping errors did run longer than initially believed due to oversight failures.

A special inquiry into the Middletown-Odessa-Townsend-area school district culminated in a 14-page report published by State Auditor Lydia York on Wednesday that “reveal failures in budgeting, reporting, and review that have resulted in Appoquinimink running large deficits for several years running.”…

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