I-Team: Cash-Strapped Newark School District Spends Thousands on Take-Out

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    I-Team: Cash-Strapped Newark School District Spends Thousands on Take-Out

    Budget cuts and tight resources plague Newark public schools, but even in these tough economic times, the Newark Public Schools District has approved tens of thousands of dollars a month in spending on takeout food and catering, NBC 4 New York's I-Team has found.


    An I-Team review of district spending over a 15-month period ending in May found that Newark administrators spent more than $330,000, or an average of about $22,000 a month, on food from places like Sandwiches Unlimited, SuzyQue's BBQ and King’s Family Restaurant and Catering even as it faces a $42 million budget gap.

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