Article: CHARLENE HARDIN A Philadelphia story The Milwaukee School Board member should reimburse the school district for the costs of a conference on school safety that she apparently barely attended.

Milwaukee School Board member Charlene Hardin should repay the district for the cost of going to a school safety conference in Philadelphia, which organizers say she barely attended. Details of Hardin's trip were reported by Journal Sentinel columnist Daniel Bice on Monday ( www.jsonline.com/bice).

Peter Pochowski, executive director of the national school safety group, a former Milwaukee Public Schools director of safety who knows Hardin, said he did not see her at the conference.

"I run the whole thing, and I had two people working the registration desk the entire time, and the first time anyone saw her was around 11 (a.m.) Tuesday when the conference was more than 60% over," Pochowski ...

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