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April 20, 2009 by
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has picked up on the growing movement towards school transparency. Our friends at the are asking all 551 Michigan schools to post their budgets and check registers online through their “Show Michigan the Money” program. Kenneth Braun, director of the project, explained the goal of this initiative:
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According to Sunshine Review, school districts should have the following on their websites:
- Budget
- School district government meetings/agendas
- Elected officials of the school district
- School district administrators
- Lobbying/advocacy
- Access to government records and public documents
- Contracts with teachers and support staff
- Contracts with vendors
- Tax burden
- Criminal background checks
- Academic performance
The own Paul Miller also had a good point in the article:
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Let us know if you are interested in helping out with the project on Sunshine Review. Volunteers are building new articles every day to help make our government more transparent, more accountable, and ultimately more effective.
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October 23, 2008 by
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A friend of mine that is a school superintendent always grumps and grouses when I push him to open up his school’s books to taxpayers. He’s generally a good government guy, and has even lobbied for sunshine legislation in other areas, but seems to have a real problem with demands for school transparency. My argument to him is always this: Using our education dollars wisely, including through competitive bidding and purging wasteful expenditures, increases the value each student receives through those tax monies. More efficiency = more dollars in classrooms = better education for the next generation of leaders. Apparently, I am not the only one that feels this way.
Yesterday, an titled cheap cialis canada ran in cheap cialis canada, calling out the Oklahoman Education Association for pushing through the HOPE ballot initiative. This initiative would, according to , cheap cialis canada That would mean a huge increase in education spending for the state of Oklahoma.
More money is great, right? Well, not so fast.
Groups like , , , and the as well as many legislators and newspapers have come out against the initiative because they say it would bankrupt the state and put existing projects and proposals on the chopping block. Another, very important reason these groups are in opposition is because does not currently require transparency in education dollars, leaving taxpayers in the dark on how their money is spent now. No new transparency will be required with the new proposal- just more money.
The sums it up well: (I’m borrowing liberally- hope the ed board doesn’t mind…)
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If the OEA wants more credibility, they need to be open to taxpayers. If they need suggestions on how to do this, check out the and the ‘s .
Read unbiased information about the OEA HOPE ballot initiative .