https://kutv.com/news/local/granite-school-district-spent-86k-of-covid-funds-to-attend-a-conference-in-las-vegas#

" SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) Thousands of dollars of COVID relief funds were used by a Utah school district for a conference in Las Vegas.

The report comes from the Department of Government Efficiency."

" In 2022, Granite School District reportedly used $86,000 of COVID relief funds for hotel accommodations at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. 123 educators attended a three-day professional development conference by Solution Tree."

" A former substitute teacher with the district said he is not surprised with how the taxpayer dollars were spent.

"A lot of money being wasted on stuff that I'd seen when I was teaching. Things we needed, like books and stuff like that, they said we don't have enough money," Narciso Vasquez said.

District officials said they got the hotel rooms at the government rate of $220 a night."

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Well, government rate for great hotel rooms! For 123 employees!

It must be really embarrassing to see these peccadillos exposed by DOGE.

Sorry for partying.

No doubt this type of thing happened in dozens, if not hundreds, of school districts across the country during covid. No accountability

I've mentioned before that I know of an Alaskan village of fewer than 200 people that got Covid funds in excess of $3MM. This is all similar to USAID. Huge pot of money pilfered from taxpayers.

After the "remote learning" phase was over, I asked what happened to all the savings from not running buses every day and on sports trips? The savings from not feeding all the students every day? The savings from not having to use as much electricity/water/gas in schools?

As a taxpayer, I didn't get a refund. No one has ever given any answers.