The site cites "89% over budget" and "14 undisclosed projects," and says "nearly a third" of projects ran $500,000 or more over budget.
Checked against the Moss Adams report on the district's own board platform, each piece of this holds up:
- Confirmed "89% over budget." The report found 89.3% of school-site budgets in the district's system exceeded the budgets in the 2018 Flipbook — the document voters were actually shown. The report also gives a second number, 71.3%, measured against the district's revised April-2021 Flipbook (see The Two Flipbooks). Since the site's claim is about budgets "publicly disclosed" to voters, 89% is the applicable figure, not a cherry-pick of a range.
- Confirmed "Nearly a third $500,000 or more over." The report: 30.8% of all projects were more than $500,000 over their 2018 Flipbook budget.
- Confirmed "14 undisclosed projects" worth over $22 million. The report's Observation 7 says "14 projects were included in the system but not identified in either Flipbook"; its detail table lists 13 of them totaling $22.49 million. The report carries both counts; either way, the substance — millions in projects funded without ever appearing in the voters' document — is the report's own finding.
And the claim did not expire with the 2021 snapshot: joining the district's published final costs to the same Flipbook budgets shows 89.1% of matched sites ended over, 63.8% by more than $500,000 — see What the Program Finally Cost.
In dollars, the report puts system budgets $109.8–$136.5 million above the site-specific budgets in the Flipbooks as of June 30, 2021, and notes that "budget increases were not pre-emptively communicated or approved by the CAAC or the Board of Education."
Correction (September 28, 2026). An earlier version of this page rated this claim Misleading, arguing the site quoted the top of a 71.3–89.3% range and counter-citing "19%" against the $500,000 figure. That 19% measured a different baseline — completed projects against the district's internal system budgets (Observation 8) — not the voters' Flipbook budgets the site's claim referenced. Against the correct baseline, the site's figures are accurate, and ours was the misleading comparison. This page now reflects the full record, and we've said so here rather than quietly rewriting it.