District finally releases critical report

Thursday, Jan. 30, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

The 500-page document details cases that the auditors claim illustrate 43 federal law violations allegedly committed by top administrators. The audit alleges failures to follow procedures for placing special-needs children as well as inadequate efforts to educate those students in the least restrictive settings possible.

The report was sent in late December to Clark County School Board attorney Johnnie Rawlinson and then-school board President Larry Mason. Mason refused to open it so as to avoid immediate legal responsibility for it. Rawlinson refused to release it because she said it pertained to a pending lawsuit filed by the school administrators' union.

Superintendent Brian Cram said his office received a copy of the audit last Thursday and made the report available to the media within days. Copies of the document also were delivered to each board trustee's home Tuesday night, according to Cram.

Rawlinson said she was unaware of the release of the document to the media or trustees until the Las Vegas Review-Journal called her Wednesday. She had no comment.

The report is the second submitted to the district by co-auditors Ed Sontag and David Rostetter. The first, released last spring, was assailed by Cram and others for lodging allegations against the district without providing supporting evidence. That criticism prompted the auditors to write the second review, complete with references to specific cases.

"We will now move as quickly as possible to examine these documents for accuracy and then make the systemic changes as necessary," Cram said. "We're pleased to now have exact cases to examine in detail."

The second report alleges that school district lawyers worked to keep particularly critical information out of the first version of the review.

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