Audit finds financial mismanagement at Oregon boarding school for Native Americans

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Audit finds financial mismanagement at Oregon boarding school for Native Americans

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Published on Jul 20, 2023, 1:35:48 PM
Total time: 00:12:41

Episode Description

Oregon’s only federally-run boarding school for Native American students failed to properly spend or account for millions of taxpayer dollars as well as hundreds of thousands contributed to student accounts by Indigenous families, according to an audit published Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General. OPB editor Rob Manning, who worked on a  five-part investigation into Chemawa, joins us to talk about the audit.

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