Leadership at Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools isn’t shy about using public school funds.
In two years, ABC10 found the charter school spent over $3 million on travel to places like San Diego, Nashville, New Orleans, Las Vegas, New York and France.
Our year-long investigation found expensive trips aren’t the only way Highlands spends their funding.
The school has spent millions on lobbying efforts, legislative groups, nonprofit organizations and a sports show.
They hired well-known community figures with no background in education, spent millions of dollars on cell phones and tablets, organized big social events, costly raffles, participated in expensive golf tournaments and more.
The charter school's leadership team also receives six-figure salaries, yet few have educational experience or credentials.
Highlands’ insiders question the school’s fiscal policies asking why so much is being spent with so few students graduating? In part three of “The Wild West of Education,” ABC10 follows the money to find hundreds of millions being spent with minimal oversight.
This is an ABC10 Originals four-part investigation.
You can watch all four episodes here, www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wild-west-of-education-an-investigation-into-highlands-community-charter-and-technical-schools/103-9cf5ca57-9441-4f0c-853a-6e3061989d46
You can read the full story for episode three here, www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/the-wild-west-of-education-following-the-money-ep-3-abc10-originals-investigation/103-24786355-c436-468d-ac29-27d61f1d6bf7
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