Audit criticizes Broward County spending

An independent audit raising concerns about how the Broward County (Fla.) School District awards construction contracts. The audit, which focused on a project that added hundreds of classrooms to district schools, says the district abused its contract, bypassed competitive bids and paid a select number of contractors questionably high fees. What started as a $30 million, eight-school, yearlong project ballooned into a $183 million, 52-school mission that still isn't complete, the audit says.

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