The perfect crime

Mark Graham

Schools activist Russell Fish says his group, the Open Records Project, has found at least 100 DISD "phantom vendors" that trace to post office boxes.

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One thing the school board wants to do is get the fraud audit over quicker. Earlier this year, they voted to spend the rest of the budget for the audit, $1 million, in one year instead of two as previously planned. Maybe that will enable them to move from the janitors and the Chinese office furniture to a serious FBI crackdown on truancy.

Then again, some of those agents are kind of up in years, and some of those kids are pretty quick. Let's not expect too much out of this.