When Anthony A. Williams was the city’s chief financial officer, back in the mid-1990s, he sent his deputy, Abdusalm Omar, into the D.C. Public Schools. The mission: slay the financial management bureaucracy. There were serious problems — teachers weren’t being paid on time; federal grants were being spent improperly. The place was a certifiable mess.
Eventually, Williams assigned to DCPS a permanent agency financial officer, who reported to him, as did all fiscal staff in the District government. For a while, things calmed down.
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