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Board presses for transparency after Inquirer report on MCIU international travel
Summary
At the workshop, board members debated a Philadelphia Inquirer story alleging roughly $40,000 in international professional-development travel by MCIU staff. The MCIU executive was said to have clarified district funds were not used; board members nevertheless called for an ad hoc review and stronger public accountability.
Upper Perkiomen School Board members spent a substantial portion of their workshop discussing a Philadelphia Inquirer article that questioned international professional-development travel by managers at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU).
Leah, an Upper Perk director who summarized the matter for the board, said Dr. Speaker (MCIU executive director) clarified to the board that "funds used for executive level…
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