School District 105 (LaGrange) chooses not to post expenditures
In some disappointing news, LaGrange-based School District 105 has decided not to post its expenditures online. In a letter dated January 22, 2009 to Liberty Leader Victoria Franzese, the district’s director of business services Cathy Johnson writes:
Thank you for
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District 150 – Open for Business?
A concerned taxpayer and parent writes in the Peoria Journal about School District 150 opening up its books and letting the public see and better understand how it spends the community’s tax dollars. Scott Donahue makes some solid points — …
Cary D26 leads the way in pay-to-play reform
And it was all the way back in 2006!
Liberty Leader Chris Jenner–a board member of Cary Community Consolidated School District 26 who recently led the charge for competitive bidding and online posting of public documents–recently sent me this …
$67,000 in Taxes for Cappuccino Machines
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the nation’s third largest district, bought 30 cappuccino machines for a culinary arts program. Many months after the purchases, 22 hadn’t been opened and one disappeared.
Three are in use — BUT, not for the …
Root Out Corruption with Transparency
The Times ran my op-ed yesterday about transparency’s role in rooting out corruption in Illinois government at both the local and state level.
With the recent Blagojevich corruption case, the need for transparency in state spending and Illinois politics is …
Increased School Funding? Let’s See Transparency First.
State Representative Kathy Ryg (D59-Vernon Hills) is on the right track. In the Daily Herald today, Ryg encourages more transparency, writing:
…before additional taxpayer dollars are poured into Illinois’ broken public school system. I have filed HB5769 – Education Fiscal
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