This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition.
News flash: The citizens who pay for public schools expect their hard-earned money to be spent on public schools, not on adults angling for business contracts.
Especially when money for teaching actual students is getting scarcer.
Had the Seattle and Tacoma school districts kept their focus relentlessly on the classroom, they wouldn’t have wound up duped by a rogue operation that claimed to be cultivating minority contractors while in fact squandering or pocketing money that should have been spent in the classrooms.
The Tacoma School District’s role in this is relatively minor, …
