School's out for city's 300 missing teachers

Officials admit pay was wrong, pledge correction

BEIJING - More than 300 teachers at public schools in a city in Central China have been missing from the classroom for the past two years but have still been claiming their government paychecks, according to an article from Xinhua News Agency.

The revelation, which was first reported by a local newspaper in Yongzhou city in Central China's Hunan province, raised concern that millions of yuan had been embezzled from public funds, the reports said.