WARD: A Responsible Solution to Claremont’s School Budget Shortfall

WARD: A Responsible Solution to Claremont’s School Budget Shortfall

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve heard about the major budget problems in Claremont. School administrators and elected local officials allowed an accounting error to create a budget shortfall of more than $5 million. To put that in perspective, the entire Claremont school budget totals just over $40 million. This was more than an innocent mistake — it was negligence. To make matters worse, this past week we learned that the school distr…