
New Jersey School District Faces $18 Million Shortfall, New Superintendent Calls Out Faulty Accounting
Ruth Turner, the new administrator of a New Jersey school system, discovered a $18 million deficit due to years of poor bookkeeping and mismanagement in her first weeks. Turner and the new business administrator said the district’s financials didn’t stack up. They found enormous amounts of unpaid bills, incomplete ledgers, and accounting carelessness when they…