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Board accepts 2024-25 financial audit; staff to seek OCDE waiver for teacher-salary requirement
Summary
The board accepted the district's audited financial statements for 2024-25. The auditor reported three state compliance findings, including instructional-materials hearing timing, a shortened learning-opportunities program, and a classroom-teacher-salary spending percentage below the 55% threshold; staff said they will seek a waiver from the Orange County Department of Education to avoid funding withholdings.
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board voted to accept the district's 2024-25 financial audit after an auditor described the scope of testing and identified three state compliance findings.
Natalie Palma of Christie Wood Associates, who helped conduct the audit, told trustees the auditors' financial-statement, state-compliance and federal-compliance opinions "were all in modified, which is the best opinion that you can receive," and then reviewed the findings.
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