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L.A. Unified payroll system still troubled, grand jury says
- 07-01-2010
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In the wake of a costly, much-publicized fiasco, the payroll system of the nation's second-largest school district remains dangerously incomplete and inadequately monitored, a grand jury has concluded. The L.A. County Grand Jury annual report, released Wednesday, took aim at the malfunctioning payment system launched in January 2007 in the Los Angeles Unified School District. For months, thousands were overpaid, underpaid or not paid at all. The grand jury investigation, which will not result in criminal charges, traveled well-worn ground in examining what went wrong, noting inadequate employee training and an insufficient trial run to work out glitches. (more...)
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