BATON ROUGE - BREC Superintendent Janet Simmons said the agency is putting measures in place to get BREC on the right track after the 2023 audit released by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office on Monday noted compliance issues and missing equipment.

As previously reported , the audit noted non-compliance with state bid laws, budget publication laws and local government budget act.

Simmons started as interim superintendent in June. She said many issues noted in the 2023 audit could be partly attributed to the high staff turnover at the time in the finance department, adding that employees did not know who turn financial documents into which led to miscommunication. She said there are new measures to promote transparency.

"Constantly, every day, we're having war room meetings, we

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