Auditors arrive at MSCS looking for fraud in high-stakes probe
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A state-funded forensic audit of Memphis-Shelby County Schools is set to review the three fiscal years when an additional $850 million flooded the district’s coffers.
The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury selected national accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP to conduct the audit, according to materials obtained through a public records request.
Firm staff arrived in Memphis on Monday, Aug. 11, to begin talking with the school system about the forensic audit, which is meant to identify instances of fraud, waste and abuse and to evaluate the district’s internal controls.
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Laura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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