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1. Superintendent of Guideline for the California schools, Jack O'Connell, started an audit more than a year earlier into the financial concerns of the car donation foundation the Alternatives for Youth and Opportunities for Learning (OYO) schools. The OYO is a chain of independent study charter schools within the California schools system, which are privately run however moneyed by the state. The OYO California schools serve students who have actually left of the standard high schools. They presently have about 15,000 students in 40 store locations across the state. These California schools trainees do the majority of their work at home, meeting with teachers two times a week. According to state records, trainee accomplishment test and high school exit exam ratings are above average, as compared to other alternative high schools within the California schools system. According to a Los Angeles Times post of August 10th, just 11 percent of OYO trainees finished during the 2003-2004 academic year. The rest of students that left school that year either dropped out, were expelled, or moved to other schools. The California schools' audit was carried out by the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, who concluded their analysis and presented their findings in a report that was launched in August 2006. The audit mentions accounting defects, overpayments by the state, disputes of interest, nepotism, extreme compensation, and mixing private business concerns with public schools. The OYO was established and still run by John and Joan Hall, previous teachers from Hollywood High School. They have completely cooperated with the California schools' audit, but conflict the majority of the findings. Some examples from the audit report are: • Accounting Defects and Overpayments. The Halls count each of their instructors as 1.92 full-time positions. Their representative, Stevan Allen, mentioned that this is a typical practice for charter schools in the California schools system and is a genuine approach for compensating school personnel for longer days and year-round schedules. California schools superintendent O'Connell believes teachers must be counted just as one full-time position each. The auditors disagreed, pointing out that standard California schools teachers invest much less time working each year than those at OYO. However, the auditors believed the 1.92 quantity is pumped up. This example, alone, accounts for more than half of the $57 million overpayment. Furthermore, the report noted several doubtful expenses. One example of unrestrained spending, offered by the Times was an $18,000 staff party held at Disneyland. Allen protected that event as an effort at relationship building in between team member, who are scattered across the state. He noted that the expenses was less than $50 per employee. • Disputes of Interest and Mixing Private Organisation with Public Schools. Besides the charter schools, the Halls own and operate a number of private organisations that sell products and services to schools. The Times kept in mind that the Alternatives in OYO was the nonprofit part of the setup, with the Opportunities part being for-profit. The audit calls this practice and setup into concern. • Excessive Compensation. The audit likewise questions the combined incomes for the Halls, which is $600,000 yearly. The report mentions that it might be extreme for the quantity of time the couple actually works. • Nepotism. The Halls produced a separate charity with $10.8 million of the California schools' funding, called Pathways in Education. The charity is run by their daughter, Jamie Hall. Little money has been spent towards education hence far. The Halls contend that they previously had asked for assistance on their operation from the California schools lots of times, but never ever got any reaction. Therefore, they tried to follow California schools requirements as finest they could with their understanding of the policies. Even O'Connell conceded that none of the mentioned

2. practices are illegal. The audit suggests the California schools need to try to recover the $57 million in overpayment from the OYO. O'Connell has actually sent the report to the state's lawyer general's office for evaluation and any necessary action.