The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board tabled a vote last night on a request to conduct a more extensive audit of its free and reduced-lunch program. The CMS school board has wrangled over the issue for the past two months after a federally mandated audit of 3 percent of F&R students found that 479 out of 704 households verified either did not provide proof of income or were found ineligible.
As noted here, state officials gave a verbal warning to CMS after school board members expressed interest in expanding the audit. The Charlotte Observer reported that the state threatened to take away CMS’s $34 million in school lunch subsidies if the district pursued the audit.
The issue is expected to come up again at the board?s Oct. 14 meeting. Meanwhile, the school board yesterday approved a $18,200 bonus and a $7,150 raise for CMS superintendent Peter Gorman. That brings his total compensation package to $320,350 per year.
