Morgan Jacobsen reports:
State auditors recently found reasons to praise education administrators for the transparency, accuracy and reliability of financial reporting in public schools.
But in the process of looking through school transparency data reported on Utah’s public finance website, auditors “stumbled across” a trend that concerned them, according to performance audit supervisor Chris Otto.
Since 2009, 39 school districts and charters released personally identifiable student information in more than 5,500 transactions, according to the audit released Wednesday by the Office of the Utah State Auditor.
Most of those transactions linked with student names contained information on academic services, testing, medical services, special education and legal information. When the trend appeared to be “widespread,” auditors expanded the original scope of their report to address the problem, Otto said.
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