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Article: In Md., Teed About Principal's Golf Cart; Some Question Need, Expense
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- The Washington Post
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- March 29, 2008
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The redesigned $87 million Richard Montgomery High School,
flagship of the Montgomery County school system, occupies a building
that's as long as two football fields. So Moreno Carrasco, the
principal, decided to purchase a golf cart to help him get around.
This has not gone over well with some in the school community.
Parent activists have seized on the golf cart as a symbol of
administrative excess in a school system that is asking everyone
else to endure cuts. Superintendent Jerry D. Weast has curtailed all
but essential spending as the county seeks to close a $297 million
budget deficit.
"It gets to the point where you have to laugh at the
ridiculousness of the situation," wrote Jeanne ...