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A scaled-down version of a controversial consulting contract between the Rancho Santiago Community College District Foundation and an entity funded by the Saudi Arabian government was approved by the foundation’s board in December.
In recent years, officials have stayed at five diamond hotels, eaten expensive meals, and taken limo services while students have had to sell hotdogs to save a math class.
The Fair Political Practices Commission won’t be investigating trips to Saudi Arabia by officials of the Rancho Santiago Community College District that were paid for by a Saudi company and the district’s foundation
An organization that focusses on topics in international education, which is run by the staff at the Rancho Santiago Community College District, has been suspended since 2004 for failing to file tax returns.
The latest revelation regarding a controversial deal between the Rancho Santiago Community College District and Saudi Arabia is that district officials’ travel to the Middle-Eastern kingdom was likely paid for by a Saudi company or the Saudi government.