A forensic audit has found that the Nutrition Services department in the Rialto Unified School District received more than $3 million in excess federal funding over a three-year period due to inflated student meal counts.

The audit, which produced 11 findings, concluded that in the summer months of June and July of 2021, 2022 and 2023 the district received more than $2.9 million in overpayments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, attributed to misreported data in the district’s eTrition system, which tracks student meal accounts and meal program data.

Additionally, the district received excess reimbursements of more than $88,000 in December 2021 and more than $27,000 in December 2022, totaling more than $115,000. The operator listed in eTrition as the one who made the additional mea

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