Does the Auditor have express or implied authority to audit charter schools? The Department of Education is a standards setting body, not primarily doing auditing (if doing any at all). Yet somebody has to police the charters' handling of money. The school boards face an electorate while managing district affairs, but who now polices charter schools? With an apparent answer of nobody, charters falling through the cracks, a proactive Auditor surely could do the State a major service by picking up the slack.
