Philadelphia Students Gain Experience With Mock Audit Of Their School Lunches
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A mock audit produced some real lessons for high school students in the City Controller's summer mentor program.
Students at the Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) performed a mock audit of their school lunches under the City Controller's first-ever mentor program. Junior De'Jaun Newton says he learned about food and the job of an auditor.
"I never heard or read about any audits before. So this was a good experience."
The students found their school lunches met USDA nutritional guidelines, but the school administration wouldn't provide them documents on the cost of the program, Controller Alan Butkovitz empathized.
"Yeah, we thought that proved it was a real-life experience and it also put them in the kind of experience we have all the time."
CHAD CEO Gregory Wright, who's only been on the job for two weeks, promised to take the students' findings seriously.
"This is a real project and it's real work with real recommendations."
Butkovitz says his office plans to expand the mentor program next year.