Whistleblower: Polk and Lee County schools overcharged by nearly $1 million for textbooks

A whistleblower has filed a complaint that publisher McGraw Hill unfairly charged some counties for instructional materials.

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A whistleblower complaint filed with the state of Florida claims publisher McGraw Hill overcharged more than half a dozen school systems, including two locally, by hundreds of thousands of dollars for textbooks.

 

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