As an auditor, David Rhodes has uncovered a whole lot of mismanagement, waste, and wrongdoing at the Broward County School Board.
But Rhodes won't be there to dig into the schools' hornet nests anymore. His last day at the district was yesterday.
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No, protective school board members -- since-criminally charged Stephanie Kraft especially didn't appreciate his auditing skills -- haven't given Rhodes the ax. He's onto bigger and better things as a special agent.
Rhodes has been hired to work as an investigator with the new Broward Office of the Inspector General, where he'll be expected to root out corruption across the county. He'll join a team that with him now totals five special agents.
"We're pleased to have Special Agent Rhodes coming on, as we are pleased to have all of our special agents, each of whom have already displayed initiative, ability, and integrity," Inspector General John W. Scott told Local 10 this morning.
The school board, however, will lose one its most diligent watchdogs. Back in 2007, I wrote a story on Rhodes' work in which he made a rare public comment.
"They beat me up on a daily basis," Rhodes said of school board officials who didn't like to be questioned. "But I don't respond to their beatings the way they want me to. I just keep doing my job."
Let's hope he keeps doing that kind of work at the IG's office.