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Batavia Schools Lead League for Lavish Dining at Chicago Leadership Conference
Daily Herald Report: Superintendent Jack Barshinger ponies up district funds for hotels and a $2,000 dinner for 16 at Morton's Steakhouse. A Geneva board member characterizes the spending as "just ridiculous."
Batavia School District 101 was the poster child for a front-page Daily Herald report Wednesday that reveals some excessive hotel and travel spending at the November statewide school leadership conference in November. Daily Herald suburban tax watchdog Jake Griffin did the legwork, filling out Freedom of Information Act requests to districts throughout the suburbs and hitting the jackpot when he saw the $1,929.75 tab Batavia School Board members rung up at Morton's Steakhouse. The article reports that the Morton's bill usually is picked up by "one of our vendors," according to Batavia Superintendent Jack Barshinger—a practice that is a little eyebrow-raising in and of itself. Sixteen guests enjoyed entrees including New York strip steak …
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Alan Zagoren
2:15 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The members of the Batavia School Board should reimburse the district for the money spent to at least "clear the air" along with a guarantee this will not happen again. And they should not be accepting any types of costly gifts from district vendors. They apparently need an ethics policy. more ›