Florida Statewide Grand Jury Blasts Broward County School Board

 

This is but a short excerpt from an actual case in the Floridian Supreme Court to show that many things in U.S. are different on the outside than the inside.

 

The Statewide Grand Jury in the Supreme Court of the State of Florida examined the functioning of the Broward County School District in a case filed in 2009 (Case No. SC09-1910). Here are the first 3 paragraphs of its findings and recommendations (decision reached and re- leased Feb 18, 2011)

                                                           FINAL REPORT OF THE NINETEENTH STATEWIDE GRAND JURY

     Case No:  SC09-1910                       IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

                                                                                                                                                                                      We, the Grand Jury (of the Supreme Court of State of Florida) have been called upon  to examine, among other matters, the functio-ning of the Broward County School Board and of the Broward County School District.

 

     The evidence we have been presented concerning the malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance of the Broward County School Board (Board) and of the senior management of the Broward County School District (District) and of the gross mismanagement and apparent ineptitude of so many individuals at so many levels is so overwhelming that we cannot imagine any level of incompetence that would explain what we have seen.

 

     Therefore we are reluctantly compelled to conclude that at least some of this behavior can best be explained by corruption of our offi cials by contractors, vendors and their lobbyists.

 

     Moreover, many of the problems we identified in our inquiry are longstanding and have been pointed out by at least two previous Grand Juries. But for the Constitutional mandate that requires an elected School Board for each District, our first and foremost recommendation would have been to abolish the Broward County School Board altogether . . . .

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