California’s top librarian torched as $1.1M vanishes from Dolly Parton literacy program: new docs

Fuente: New York Post

California has a new third rail in politics: Don’t mess with Dolly! During a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday, state Senators Sasha Renée Peréz (D-Pasadena) and Shannon Grove (R-Fresno) ripped into California State Librarian Greg Lucas and a department-linked nonprofit for burning more than $1 million in taxpayer money designed to support country music icon Dolly Parton’s child literacy program. In March The Post reported on a hearing that focused on roughly $650,000 in unaccounted-for spending tied to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.   5 Dolly Parton’s child literacy efforts have been praised across, but California officials burned more than $1 million.