From S.T. Karnick at The American Culture: In case you missed it, LA Times reporters Jason Felch, Jason Song and Doug Smith used California’s public records law to obtain seven years of math and English test scores from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They asked Richard Buddin, a well-respected analyst at the RAND Corporation, [...]
Tag Archives: School District Spending
School Districts: A Friendly Reminder
A friendly reminder to all school districts in Illinois: HB2235 passed in August last year, giving all school districts in Illinois until July 1, 2010 to “report the base salary and benefits of the school superintendent, all administrators and teachers by July 1, starting in 2010. The information, including vacation and sick days, bonuses and [...]
Transparency and Teacher Layoffs
The SouthtownStar has been looking into south suburb school district spending over the last week amid growing talks of teacher layoffs and cutting school programs. The paper sent FOIA requests to 18 towns and 25 school districts asking for information such as employees’ salaries, overtime pay and administrators’ credit card expenses. Check out what they [...]
Chicago Board of Education Credit Cards Canceled
Thousands of dollars in artwork, limos, expensive meals and liquor charges by employees of the Chicago Board of Education, such as former presidents Michael Scott and Rufus Williams, along with their staff, have come under scrutiny, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman has canceled the credit cards of 89 Chicago Board [...]
Transparency in CPS Special Ed?
How is that $87.8 million spent? A Chicago Tribune piece today discusses how the “state Board of Education is looking into questions about the “accountability and transparency” of millions of dollars in state money that Chicago Public Schools receives each year to pay the salaries of its special education teachers.” Read more about it here.
School Districts: Transparency Required.
The public may start seeing more transparency from school districts soon, according to the Sun-Times. One new piece of legislation (SB2270), introduced by Senators Dan Cronin, Kirk W. Dillard, Chris Lauzen and John J. Millner states “every school district must post on its Internet site a compensation report for every employee who holds an administrative [...]
Transparency Reveals the Good and the Bad
Liberty Leader Scott O’Connell sent us a copy of this letter below, which is from a gentleman who sued to obtain access to the Wheaton School District 200 superintendent’s salary. This should highlight and provide yet another reason why transparency is so important in school districts – and all levels of government — including salary [...]