After reviewing as much as $36 million in state funding abuses, the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office has concluded that "such violations are very limited or isolated."

Really?

A $36 million problem doesn't sound very "limited" to us, but then, money seems to carry a higher value in the private sector.

The state had paid the sum to community colleges for bogus dual-enrollment classes in which high school students would earn college credit simply by attending their regular sports practices under the auspices of physical education.

According to the chancellor's report, this illicit practice -- the product of shoddy ethics and shoddier accounting -- took place at about half of the state's 72 community college districts. The Los Angeles Community College District had 1,195 questionable physical education classes, for which it now must repay the state $510,000.

If that's a "limited or isolated" problem we'd hate to see what the community colleges consider an outright scandal.