ARCADIA, Cal. – The folks from the Arcadia, California school district are not shy about asking state lawmakers for more money.

According to a Feb. 1 report from Patch.com, “Arcadia Unified School District’s collective of students, teachers, parents, staff, and Board of Education recently made its annual journey to Sacramento to advocate for fair and adequate funding for Arcadia Unified Schools.”

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The amateur lobbyists were clearly passionate about their mission.

“We need our state government to understand why funding schools is one of the most important places they can allocate state funds,” Arcadia teacher Catherine Keyston was quoted as saying.

We wonder how Keyston and the rest of the Arcadia group would respond if a state lawmaker asked them about the $12,856.74 charged to school district credit cards at the Corner Bakery in Pasadena in fiscal year 2016-17.

Or the $8,134.07 charged at Jersey Mike’s Subs, including a single charge for $5,596.75. Or the $3,020.16 charged at Paco’s Mexican Restaurant, including single tabs of $343.19, $474.20, $454.20, $500, $366.20 and $338.19.

How would they explain the $2,090.75 tab rang up at Casa Guadalajara in San Diego, including two individual charges of $1,261.07 and $829.68? Or the $1,897.91 tab at the Workshop Kitchen and Bar in Palm Springs? Or the $926.06 charged at the Eight4Nine Restaurant in Palm Springs? Or the $567.31 tab at Parker’s Lighthouse in Long Beach?

How would they convince lawmakers that the $1,638.97 spent at Matt Denny’s Ale House was an important allocation of education funds? Or, on a lesser scale, the $112.37 charged at the Old Wagon Saloon in San Jose, or the $117.65 at the Atlas Tap Room?

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The Arcadia school district spent a total of $59,655.15 in 390 separate transactions at restaurants, bars and catering services in fiscal year 2016-17, according to information provided by the district through an open records request.

We counted 155 individual transactions for at least $100.

Compared to a lot of other school districts, $57,000 is a relatively modest tab for restaurant food – shocking as that might be.

But it’s enough to pay the base salary of a full-time teacher, and enough to make taxpayers wonder how cautious the Arcadia district is with the rest of its tax dollars.

We found a few clues.

We learned that the district had 155 hotel transactions totaling $59,347.08 in 2016-17, including five transactions at the Park Central in San Francisco for $3,738.97.

There were 12 charges at Embassy Suites hotels totaling $7,307.40. There were six charges totaling $3,673.82 at the Intercontinental in San Francisco.

There were four charges for $561 apiece at the Omni in San Diego. There was a single charge of $593.68 at the Miramonte Resort and Spa in Indian Wells.

The school district also charged 26 Lyft rides, for a total of $658.33, including one apparently very long ride for $138.33. There were also 27 charges for Uber rides, totaling $554.57.

Considering all of this, it’s hard to read about the Arcadia district begging state lawmakers for “fair and adequate funding.” Maybe they should start by using their current resources much more wisely.