Dear Editor: In Support of Shannon O'Brien

Dear Editor,

Questionable spending, suspension of fiscal responsibilities, who's looking out for the children?

$67 million! That's the amount state auditors recently reported as State Superintendent of Schools Elsie Arntzen's "questionable spending" of federal pass-through money intended for local public schools.

It is the responsibility of the state superintendent to ensure that federal money is allocated for its intended purposes and to hold schools accountable for how they spend those allocated funds. Yet the auditors reported that in one COVID-relief fund alone, Arntzen failed to track all...