Principals Fired Over Book Purchases

(Decatur, GA) -- Two Georgia principals are out of work after giving new meaning to the term "cooking the books." The DeKalb County principals were accused of using school funds to buy thousands of dollars worth of books that school administrators had written. An investigation revealed that one principal used her school's funds to buy more than eleven-thousand dollars worth of copies of her own book. The "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" first wrote about bulk book purchases in July when it reported that Assistant Superintendent Ralph Simpson had sold more than 15-thousand dollars in books to the district.