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Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie Ducks Blame For “Lost” $2.5 Million, Then Takes Junket-—BY BUDDY NEVINS

What did Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie do after announcing this week that he can’t find $2.5 million missing from the school police budget?

He didn’t admit responsibility. He didn’t take the blame.

Instead, Runcie hightailed it to St. Petersburg for a junket......Other than disclosing the association gave Broward a grant, Runcie kept mum about the cost of the three-day road trip. Presumably the 10 higher-ups – who all make six-figure salaries – are continuing to collect their pay.

The trip came one day after Tuesday’s School Board workshop when it was disclosed that the school police department is $2.5 million in the hole for this fiscal year. Only $50,000 remains in its budget.

Perhaps most shocking: Runcie’s repeated admission that despite an investigation that has been going on for more than a month, administrators still don’t know where the money went. Runcie also repeatedly refused to accept responsibility despite intense grilling by School Board member Robin Bartleman at this week’s meeting.

Bartleman: “As the CEO of the sixth largest school district in the nation with an over $2 billion budget, how do you not have internal controls to find the budget is overspent by $2.5 million?”.....

Runcie is not able to stop $2.5 million from going missing, but he does an exquisite job of bobbing, weaving and denying responsibility.

Some Responses:

How can a CEO get away with not knowing where 2.5 MILLION went?

Runcie is incompetent and should be terminated with cause negating any severance payout.

Runcie and his criminal crew are living high on the hog while the people of Broward slip into poverty and ignorance.

Broward will take decades to recover, if it ever can! The lack of education taking place is absurd. Students and their education are not even on Runcie’s radar. That is why all the crimes against students are allowed and covered up to protect his clique

The mob from Chicago at work and relaxation.

All of the other 66 counties have taxpayers and citizens and voters that are not asleep at the switch and nip the backroom deals in the bud...Not Broward..

Broward is a cesspool of corruption. You morons keep voting in the same criminals. Runcie is from Chicago, the same place the criminal in chief O’Bama is from. Why are you people surprised? You deserve to work an extra 20 years just to pay for your idols antics.