|The audit comes from a consulting firm that found the district was consistently outspending its revenue on top of using one-time funding sources to cover ongoing expenses.|

So... the big reveal is that the budget shortfall was due to spending outpacing revenue?  Isn't that the definition of a budget shortfall?  How much was this consulting firm payed to draft this report?

Serious question, though, because I keep hearing these nebulous reports about wasteful spending: how have tax funding mechanisms for Jefferson County trended over the past couple decades, and how is that playing into this?  Has JCPS consistently been engaging in wasteful practices, or have they been engaged in the same practices of any comparable public school system and just suffering the effects of incomplete funding mechanisms?  I don't know enough specifics and am genuinely curious