New Orleans Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux says the state Department of Education wasted nearly $33 million by overpaying the company that is overseeing the city's $1.8 billion school building master plan. Nola.com says the funds come out of a FEMA settlement that is enabling the schools in the city to be rebuilt and renovated. Many campuses were dilapidated even before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
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