WRAL Reports:

Raleigh, N.C. — Members of the Wake County Board of Commissioners expressed anger and frustration Monday about cost overruns in the planning of a new high school northeast of Raleigh.

The Wake County school district budgeted $1.7 million for road work at Forest Ridge High School, for example, but district officials recently told county officials that those costs would be at least $7.4 million.

“Is this the result of incompetence, or was there a willful intent to mislead us?” a seething Commissioner Paul Coble asked.

The Wake County School System gets 3/4 of the Wake County Budget.  Plus bond money.  Plus drug and DUI seizures.  And who knows what else.  Yet, every time we hear from them it’s “Our schools are rated worst in the nation and we need more money!”

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Audit them!  From the UNC System down to the tiniest preschool!  Audits of our Universities are showing that there is huge bureaucratic bloat!  And you expect me to believe that there isn’t huge waste in our school systems?  Audit Them!  Audit Them!  Audit Them!  Audit Them!

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