Dive Brief:

• An audit of Louisiana's $35 million voucher program found that the state spent an extra and unnecessary $52,000 on the program.  
• Education Superintendent John White told the Associated Press that the state is getting the money back by paying less in the latest tuition payments.  
• White is spinning the finding as a positive, saying that of the 126 schools involved in the state voucher program, only 24 were brought up by the auditors.  

Dive Insight:

Ultimately, only 19% of the voucher schools had audit issues, which White says is way less than the rate for traditional public schools. Regardless of who has a better rate, schools should still be aiming to not spend money carelessly. Critics of the voucher program will no doubt jump on this as evidence of wasteful spending, especially since they are already against the idea of public funds going to private schools.