TPS administrators received $341,000 in donor funds without school board's knowledge

Public records reveal at least $341,000 in donor funds was paid to top district administrators at Tulsa Public Schools, in addition to their taxpayer-funded salaries as public employees, during Deborah Gist’s last five years as superintendent. But the elected Tulsa school board, charged with approving the hiring or firing and salaries of all public school employees in TPS, was apparently kept in the dark. Financial accounting records of the nonprofit Foundation for Tulsa Schools reveal donor funds were paid directly to more than two dozen TPS administrators in increments ranging...