LAUSD's Powerful Watchdog Office Has Been Closing Far Fewer Investigations. Why? Think of a scandalous headline you've read about the Los Angeles Unified School District in recent years: An iPad debacle that derailed a superintendent's tenure. A guilty plea from a former food services director accused of skimming from the budget. A financial scandal involving now-former school board member Ref Rodriguez and a charter school he founded. As LAUSD's official watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General had a hand in all of these cases, and many more. The auditors and investigators in the OIG are charged with holding LAUSD officials accountable for how they spend more than $9.6 billion each ... Continue reading... https://laist.com/2019/03/25/lausd_oig_office_inspector_general_open_investigations.php