If you’ve been following the news, you’ve heard about the major budget problems in Claremont. School administrators and elected local officials allowed an accounting error to create a budget shortfall of more than $5 million. To put that in perspective, the entire Claremont school budget totals just over $40 million. This was more than an innocent mistake — it was negligence.

To make matters worse, this past week we learned that the school district is reportedly facing an additional $850,000 assessment from its health insurance risk pool. While this charge isn’t directly the city’s fault, it further complicates an already difficult situation.

The mismanagement of the Claremont school budget is simply unacceptable. My understanding is that the administrator responsible for the budget shou

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