Seems that lying thieves come in all shapes and colors, regardless of birth place. This must be a slap of reality to the tiny group of conch hating bloggers, so prevalent in the Key West Citizen comment boards, who blame everything ONLY on people born in Key West. If only we blamed this mess on those responsible, like perhaps those sitting on the school board for decades or perhaps on the ignorant voters who keep voting for the same incompetents every time. Perhaps we should just blame a simple lack of character or perhaps ignorance? I'm not even a Conch and the hateful and ignorant comments posted here over and over again buy a handful of people is getting very old. If the KWC started blocking commentors with hateful comments reaching, say, over 100? Heck there would be nothing interesting to read I guess, because the only thing worse than the awful comments is the terribly written and one sided articles. At least an article from another newspaper sheds some light on the financial disaster of this school system. thanks for posting. Maybe the KWC writers will get off their rumps and do their jobs.

Everybody should find this story interesting... our former superintendent has been playing with Lee Counties books as well as Monroe County. It seems fiscal mismanagement is rampant in other communities. http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/mar/05/lee-school-board-declines-ind...

One day there will be a negative financial article about the school district that does not name the Acevedo's. Keep blaming them, it is working out great.

How long have the citizens of Monroe County said the district finances are in shambles and have reported it to the Governors office, only for him to say...no my problem man. We have been asking for the state to come in and fix this mess. No one listened to us. MAYBE NOW!?!?

There are 18 findings. The worst finding in an audit is called a material weakness. There are NONE of those. The next level of finding is "significant". There is ONE of those. The last level is additional findings. There are 17 of those. Of the 13 State findings, 10 recommendations are to "enhance existing controls". Two headline stories? What's really going on here? Who is Nancy Beckwith? HO HUM.

This is the third year of disgraceful audits! Thank you to the reporter for informing us of the calamity, instead of hiding it like the last two citizen education reporters! (The crackhead, and Jara's BFF)