It sounded pretty cut and dried at the Broward School Board's December 11 audit committee meeting. Audit committee member and veteran activist Charlotte Greenbarg asked the board's chief building officer, Ronald Morgan, about the status of his state license.Morgan, who oversees a $3 billion construction budget, has never passed the state test required to be an administrator. That's right, the public official overseeing our school buildings -- who makes in excess of $100,000 a year -- is unlicens
Today's Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year's budget talks, "everything is on the table." That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students' daily schedule. Desperate measures for desperate times, right?Right. So it will be fascinating to see whether in this climate of allegedly ruthless cost-cutting, Broward School Board members finally take a hard look at the district's trash bill
The headlines in Broward and Palm Beach:Investigators are circling Bruce Chait of Prestige Homes -- and not just for the developer's hiring of Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft's husband. Tamarac Mayor Joe Schreiber has alleged that Chait offered a $200,000 bribe in exchange for Mae Schreiber, Joe's wife, to drop out of the 2006 mayoral election. [Sun-Sentinel]Pat Foster is the name that the undercover FBI agent used in the Broward corruption sting, which also relied on the cover of
