PITTSBURGH -- Target 11’s Rick Earle has discovered a Pittsburgh school board member's son was paid to tutor other students during the school day.

Earle obtained an internal school document that was critical of the arrangement. The school board member's son wasn't alone.

In all, 20 Pittsburgh School District high school students were paid to tutor last year. Some of them were paid to tutor during the school day.

According to the school audit, that son of a school board member earned more money than any of them.

As a senior at Taylor Allderdice, Franco Colaizzi made $6,767.50 last year.

Colaizzi, whose mother is school board member Theresa Colaizzi, earned that money by tutoring other students.

He made more than a third of the money tutoring during school hours.

An internal school district audit obtained by Target 11 cites major problems with the tutoring arrangement.

The audit says Colaizzi only scheduled two second- semester courses and would have been better served scheduling additional academic work.

Theresa Colaizzi said, “I don't all agree with that at all. We have kids that should skip their senior years and this one could have very well been one. “

Colaizzi said her son had completed all of his requirements, earned a 4.8 grade point average and could have left school early for another job, but decided to stay and tutor.

Colaizzi said, “It's called work release, so he would have gotten a job somewhere else. So, taking his talent, which is to tutor, was simply used in that area. It didn't matter he would have went to another school or somewhere else to tutor. He would have left the building at that point. He only had two classes to take.”

This year the Pittsburgh School District hired 679 tutors. The majority are teachers, paraprofessionals and college students.

Approximately 20 are high school seniors. They are paid $10 an hour. Most tutor before or after school.

But some, like Colaizzi, are allowed to tutor during the school day. Superintendent Mark Roosevelt said despite the scathing audit done by his own employees, he doesn't have a problem with the program.

Roosevelt said, “This is somebody raising an issue and expressing an opinion on it. First of all, some people do not feel that seniors, even if they have satisfied their credit obligation, should be able to work with these hours. That's a judgment issue, a policy issue.”

The report also uncovered evidence of poor record keeping and management practices. It said that the practice of allowing one hour for prep time may have resulted in overpayments of $2,538.67.

Roosevelt said, “The one thing we did do wrong, that the school did wrong, he was billing for an hour when he was only tutoring for 45 minutes, and that was changed.”

In the end, the report recommended prohibiting students from tutoring during school hours. Both Roosevelt and Colaizzi disagree.

Colaizzi said, “We have tutors all day long. You have to have them. If you don't have them in the building all day during school, imagine what will happen.”

Earle checked with local school districts Pine Richland, Armstrong County and Mount Lebanon

All told Earle they don’t pay students to tutor. Mount Lebanon officials said some students volunteer to tutor. Earle also checked in with school districts in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Those districts also said they don't pay students to tutor.

However, Cleveland is launching a program next year in which students will get a $100 gift card for tutoring.