Bob Schaffer: “I have actually had superintendents of schools and school board members and principals who tell me not to spend another…”

“I have actually had superintendents of schools and school board members and principals who tell me not to spend another dime on that agency until we get it cleaned up and until we get that financial disaster corrected. They need the money. They want the dollars in the classrooms. But they also realize that when there is a Department of Education that is hemorrhaging cash to the extent that it is today, that it serves no one well to continue to feed more money into this machine that loses cash, has it stolen, has it squandered, cannot account for it, and, in the end, gets a fraction of the money back to children. We have talked about the example of the $2 million that was stolen out of the department from the children in South Dakota and used to buy cars. I would point out the thieves in this case actually did buy two cars. It was the third dealer that they went to to buy another car that realized there was a crime going on and turned them in.”