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Heads up to grass-
roots school reform
activists:  Be smart,
be effective
By Peyton Wolcott
Updated 12.02.07

"Walk softly
and carry a big stick."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

"Trust but verify."
-- Ronald Reagan

Just because
you can
doesn't
mean you
should.
H o w   w e   t a k e  b a c k   o u r   c h i l d r e n ' s    e d u c a t i o n:    o n e   p e r s o n ,  o n e   q u e s t i o n ,   o n e   s c h o o l   a t   a   t i m e.
Read article here.
H O M E
ASKING YOUR DISTRICT
1.  Our public schools
are a pure form of local
government.  You elect
trustees to oversee your
superintendent's running
of the schools which are
fueled by your taxes.  
Just because you may
see clear problems
including proof of
illegality that does not
mean your pointing
these out will be
welcomed by either your
board or administrators
with open arms.

2.  Don't cold call on the
board at the meeting --
call ahead, ask
questions, learn what
your trustees' and
superintendents'
concerns are.

3.  Bring 50 copies of  the
flyer I've prepared for you
(with your contact info).  
Please email me and I'll
send you the link.

4. Correct & thorough
prep saves time in the
long run.

5.  Everyone who has
followed these steps
exactly as outlined here
has experienced 100%
success; shortcuts lead
to failure.
The most important
thing about persuading
your local school district
to voluntarily post its
check register online is
the "persuasion" part.  
This means we remem-
ber to approach them in a
friendly way, with a smile
rather than a stick.  No
demands, no strident
letters to the editor. None
of the folks who have
tried shortcuts have
succeeded.  You can't
email this in or demand it
on your website.  You
can't talk to your friend the
board president and
assume anything will
come of it.

This is your opportunity to
participate in your local
political process.

Here below is the short
version; the longer more
detailed version that
points out most of the
pitfalls and roadblocks is
here.
Remember that Golden
Rule we've heard about
all of our lives?  This is a
good time to dust it off.  
When you approach your
board, you're approach-
ing individuals.  If you go
after them in an angry
way, they will react as
though you're calling their
baby ugly and become
defensive and turn your
request down.  Honor
their humanity no matter
how grumpy or sour they
look or act.
Welcome to National HQ for the Grassroots School District Online Check Register Movement!  Est. 10.01.06
This below is the short
version; if you're going to
do this, please read the
full information here; it's
your proven road map.
ARKANSAS   (1)   -   Although many Arkansas
districts now post their monthly expenses, they're
aggregated,  as here.

Marvell School District -  Monthly Expenses
CALIFORNIA   (10)  -  With the most school districts of any state in the nation (1,050),
it's hard to understand why more non-ed entities than ed are posting their checks in
California; for example, here's the City of Downey's and here's the Santa Barbara
Metropolitan Transit District's. For schools, best try is to look up their board agenda packets.

Acalanes Union HSD -  A/P Warrant Register
Capistrano USD - here
Clovis USD -  here
Emery USD - BOE - Packet
Lucia Mar USD - Board Agenda - Bill Approvalof t
How to find
your school's
checks:  
What they might
be called & where
to find them
Adams SD 50 - Check Register
Colorado Springs SD 11 - Check Register
Douglas County School District - Check Register
Durango School District  9-R -Voucher summary
Falcon SD 49 - Check Register
Greeley-Evans / Weld County District 6 -  Check Register
Jefferson County Public Schools -
     Financial Transparency Report
Rangely Public Schools - Paid bills
Bloomington PSD 87 - Listed as online here
Bond County CUSD2 - Board Packet
Bourbonnais ESD 53 - Regular Mtg. - Consent
Bradley Bourbonnais CHSD - .Minutes (Reg. Mtg.) (link: mid-page)
Carpentersville SD 300* - Board Packets - Bills Payable
Cary Community CSD26 - here (check out the other financials viewable)
Champaign CUSD 4 - here (soon) - An improvement over earlier pie charts
Coal City CUSD 1 - Check Registers
East Aurora SD 131 -  Accounts Payable (since October 2008)
Ottawa ESD 141 - District Financials
Ottawa Township HSD 140 - Exp.Rpts.
Palatine CCD 15 - here
Peotone CSD 207-U - Check Register
Plainfield Community CSD 202 - here
Proviso Township HSD 209 - here
Reed Custer CUSD 255 - here
Riverside-Brookf'd HSD 208 - here
Rock Island SD 41 - here
Niles Township CHSD 219 - here
Oak Grove SD 68 - BoardBook - Accounts Payable
Oak Park Elementary SD 97 - here
OakPark/R.For'st HSD 200 -  Check Register
Oswego CUSD 308 - Bills for Payment
IOWA (5)

Boone Community SD - Board Agendas
Cedar Rapids CSD - List of Paid Bills
College Community SD - List of Paid Bills
E. Buchanan CSD - Expenditures
Iowa City CSD - Board Agendas (PDF)
INDIANA  (2)
Huntington County Community School Corporation - Accounts Payable Voucher Register
Richmond Community Schools- Accounts Payable Voucher Register.
"One of Indiana’s oldest cities.Richmond’s rich history was built on a tradition of pioneer spirit and an
appreciation of nature; from the...Gennett Records Walk of Fame devoted to the [jazz] music recorded in
Richmond during the early 20th century to the natural wonder of the Whitewater River Gorge." (Right)
(SOURCE--City of Richmond)   Curious about the origins of the word "Hoosier" used to describe
Indianans?  Scroll down to NOTES below for explanations -- both the most likely and some entertaining.
N O T E S
Walk softly,
and carry a
big stick.
--Teddy Roosevelt
Friends, here's our
great nation's most
complete list of
school districts
(CONTINUED FROM TOP)
and because I am still
the only person in the 50
states actively searching
the U.S. for you,
information -- looking for
more districts and
working with
superintendents,
trustees, moms, dads
and taxpayers -- and
coaching folks through
the check register
process, what you see
on these pages is the
most current and
comprehensive
information in our great
nation.   Other folks --
websites, organizations,
foundations, etc. -- may  
copy my information from
time to time, but
because they are
copying rather than
originating there is
always lag time involved.
         Please verify this for
yourself by backdating
websites with a tool
such as
http://web.archive.org   
With one exception (see
Illinois above and right)
the information you find
on the only other
compilations appear to
be old copies of my
information, second- and
third-hand generations
of it,  borrowed and
outdated data all.

American parents and
taxpayers deserve
current information.

So often, my work with
individuals starts with
having to undo the
strident and demanding
approach many of our
wonderful friends in
conservative think tanks
have mistakenly
advocated.  

Such an approach
doesn't sell cars or
guacamole or anything
in between; it also
doesn't  work with our
public schools.

While such an approach
may appease angry
millionaire funders, it
has never persuaded a
single public school
administrator to post --
and such an approach
forgets that if our
schools are a mess it's
our own fault.  

Criticizing our
public schools is
like criticizing our
arms and legs.
They're our appendages.

Local public school
systems are as much a
form of local politics as
town hall and the
mayor's office, and it's up
to us to clean them up.

Let's get to work,
America!
FLORIDA   (2)  -  Miami schools' check register went
online in 2007 because trustee Marta Perez -- now school
board vice chair -- persisted; she says, "I am proud of the
role I played in furthering transparency in Miami-Dade
County Public Schools and hope that other school districts
follow suit.  The online check register fosters good and
ethical government and taxpayers deserve nothing less.”

Miami-Dade County Public Schools  -   Here
Monroe County Public Schools - Commendable degree of
transparency:  Check register, credit  card receipts & employee reimbursements
From far right:  Located near the Mississippi
on Arkansas' Eastern border in the fertile Delta
area, Marvell (pop. 1395) is famed for its
BBQ;  teenagers on a cotton picker came from
Colorado to Marvell to help out, spruce up
during Summer 2007.
From left: Clovis, "Gateway to the Sierras" near Fresno in the rich San Joaquin River Valley farming region, can
say that its school district, with 37,000 students, was among the first in the nation to post its check register online,
in early 2005; students at Ponderosa ES in South San Francisco USD. Capistrano USD is located near one of
the most historic of the old missions.   Clovis has worked to preserve its past; the  old high school (above right) is
now the San Joaquin College of Law; below right, the San Joaquin River.
L to R: Winter in Jefferson County; Douglas Pass near Rangely;  warmer weather in the Durango mountains.  Although there's been a push in Colorado towards
greater governmental fiscal transparency, as of February 2010 very few school disitricts are yet online.
Edgar Lee Masters named his Anthology after the Spoon River (aove) near
where he grew up in Illinois; Washington Jr. High (far left) in Rock
Island/Milan School District #41; (left) Elgin U-46 transportation employees'
entry in the local July 4, 2008 parade.  Wheaton CUSD 200's Franklin
MS's (below right) greetings to teacher Jack Erwin in Afghanistan on
Veterans Day 2008.  After I compiled the first Illinois roster in 2006, Adam
Andrzejewski has jumped on board the transparency movement in his
state, and many of the above links to Illinois school check registers are
courtesy of his site.  Curious  why Illinois has so many more school
districts than any other state except Texas & Michigan? Please scroll
down to "NOTES / Illinois" below.  
Spoon River Valley CUSD 4 - here
Union Grove SD 68 - here
Urbana School District 116 -
ValleyView CUSD 365 - here
Vandalia CUSD 203 -   
Waukegan CUSD 60 - here
W. Aurora SD 129 - here
W. Chicago CHSD 94 - Approved Bills
Westmont CUSD 201 - here
Wheaton CUSD 200 - Check Register
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN
PUBLIC SCHOOL
DISTRICT CHECK
REGISTERS
AND WHAT ISN'T
We do not ask school
districts to post payroll
or HIPAA-related
dollars; districts can
easily post their annual
payroll/stipend
schedules after the
budget is firmed up
each summer.
PHOTO CREDITS &
LINKS TO CHECK
REGISTERS:
I am adding photo
credits as I locate
them; for now, please
right click on any image
above that interests
you.  Some photos are
themselves live links.  I
am adding check
register links all the
time; please remember
that because this is
fluid information, not
static, things change
constantly as districts
redesign their
websites and the
locations where they're
posting their checks.

Think your
project through.

What might be
its unintended
consequences?
o monthly expenses
o monthly report
o monthly spending
o monthly warrants
o news
o non-payroll
expenditures
o paid bills
o payment register
o public notices
o public information
o public records
o required postings
o school board
o superintendent
o technology
o vendor payments
o vendor check register
o vouchers
o warrants
o warrant register
o about us
o accounts payable
o a/p
o approved bills
o approved warrants
o board of directors
o board of edu./BOE
o business office
o checks
o check journal
o check listing
o claims docket
o community news
o district information
o documents
o expenditures
o facts
o finance
o financial services
o information
o legal notices
o links
If there's no direct
link to check registers on
the home page, try first the
business office or financial
services-type area.  After
that try the "district
information" page,
something close to that
description.  If you still
haven't found your district's
checks, a third place to try
is your school board's
agenda; often where
districts have gone to
paperless board packets
the checks are included as
a link, many times as a line
item on the consent
agenda. In a  few districts,
they're in the minutes, but
this is the exception.

Three more
variables
First, I myself am still
finding new places.  My
local Llano ISD
superintendent put checks
for a time on his own page,
the only supe I've found so
far to do so in the entire
nation.   Second, please
keep in mind that like the
rosters this is fluid
information.  In addition to
changing their minds about
where to put their checks,
districts are also always in
the process of refining their
websites.  Third, if the
district is paying for TASB's
BoardBook software or for
BoardDocs, online check
registers are a free
feature, and can usually be
found in the agenda packet
for the  most recent regular
board meeting.  
NOTE:  There are no dollars listed with the above school districts for one reason: Only Texas can tell us actual total expenditures for all funds, etc. spent in a school year with a clearly defined formula. Please see NOTES on the two Texas
rosters (A - L) (M - Z) to understand this distinction.  Also, once you land on those pages, you can compare the pink budget forecast sections (left side) to the blue actual financial sections (right side) yourself and see which is larger.
IS YOUR DISTRICT ONLINE?  CHECK HERE:          Alabama                 Maine - Tennessee                Texas              Texas (spending data)                Utah - Wyoming
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and site please  
remember to
attribute
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.No one else --
governmental  or
public policy
groups or think
tanks or persons
-- is compiling a
comprehensive
national roster.
IDAHO    (1)

Coeur d'Alene School District 271-
Monthly Checks
Founded by General Sherman as a fort in the 1870s, Coeur d'Alene sits at the edge of a lake
by the same name a few hours south of the Canadian border in the Idaho Panhandle, with
Glacier National Par to the northeast. The Schitsu'umsh Tribe, nicknamed Coeur d'Alene by
traders for their "Pointed Hearts" when driving a deal, remains an active presence, including
its Tribal School (far left); built during the period 1848-1853, the Cataldo Mission of the Sacred
Heart (3rd right) is the oldest standing building in Idaho. Coeur d'Alene superintendent Hazel
Bauman.  Golf is a popular resort draw in the area, as elsewhere.
IDAHO:

Idaho State Parks &
Recreation
KENTUCKY (2)

Floyd County Schools - Warrant

Lyon County Schools - Purchases by Vendor
Boone in central Iowa was
home to the 2008 Farm
Progress Show ('the Super
Bowl of Agiculture") (right)
and also Boone CSD
whose Lowell Elementary
School (far right) is home to
145 K-2 students.
Dunn noted that
"hoosier" was
frequently used in
many parts of the
South in the 19th
century for
woodsmen or rough
hill people. He
traced the word back
to "hoozer," in the
Cumberland dialect
of England. This
derives from the
Anglo-Saxon word
"hoo" meaning high
or hill. In the
Cumberland dialect,
the world "hoozer"
meant anything
unusually large,
presumably like a
hill. It is not hard to
see how this word
was attached to a
hill dweller or
highlander.
Immigrants from
Cumberland,
England, settled in
the southern
mountains
(Cumberland
Mountains,
Cumberland River,
Cumberland Gap,
etc.). Their
descendents
brought the name
with them when they
settled in the hills of
southern Indiana.
INDIANA
Most likely origins of
the nickname
"Hoosier" can be
attributed to research
by Jacob Piatt Dunn,
Jr., Indiana historian
and long-time
Indiana Historical
Society secretary:
More information
about Indiana's
history including
possibilities from
folklore for the
origins of "Hoosier"
from the  Indiana
Historical Society.
Richmond High School
Richmond offers a microscopic look at what's happened to America's
economy; the greenhouses at Hill's Roses, where the American Beauty
was developed, have long been shuttered (above, they are frozen in
winter) and most American roses now come from South America.
Left, Wild West reenactment at Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm; more here.  
Above, named after Kiowa Chief Satanta, the community's commercial focus is
agricultural: wheat, corn, soybeans, milo, sunflowers, alfalfa, cotton and cattle. The
focus of these Satanta 3rd graders at right is on math.
Above:  Where the Santa Fe, Oregon and California
Trails converged:  Lone Elm Park Historic Campsite
(right), near Olathe.  
PHOTO CREDITS
Land Between the
Lakes (above)
By Niki Conolly
www.pbase.com/esme12/ima
ge/62209061


State Penitentiary
By Adam Maroney
flickr.com/photos/7388762@
N03/1497098101
KENTUCKY:

Land Between the
Lakes
By Barry K. Lovvorn
www.lovvornphoto.com
The "Hoosier" State
I'm researching and
adding links all the
time; please check
back.
TO PUT THE STATES' ROSTERS INTO PERSPECTIVE:  California officially has 1,050 school
districts (2007-08); about 1,036 per the California DOE's Data & Statistics department  as of
January 7, 2009.  Texas has 1,031 school districts as of that same date.  Illinois has 879 districts
U.S. SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH CHECK  REGISTERS ONLINE:    Alaska - Louisiana
GEORGIA (1)

Pike County Schools -  
Check registry
From left, Pike County Schools superintendent Michael
Duncan; Pike County Courthouse in Zebulon, built in
1895, four years before the county's cotton mill, later
named Thomaston Mills; named after Zebulon Pike, the
town is home to an active farmers market, a commercial
tree farm, and Pike County Schools students.  Far right:  
interior of the old Zebulon Plant.  (More photos below)   
There are fewer than
18,000 residents in all
of Pike County.  The
courthouse exterior
(above) hasn't
changed much since
it was photographed
in 1999 by Calvin
Beale; more about
this remarkable
demographer here:
www.ers.usda.gov/Amberwaves/
Feb03/Profiles/Beale.htm
GEORGIA:

That's the interior of
the Zebulon Plant at
far right above.  After a
series of layoffs and
the resignation of the
last Hightower family
heir, the company was
cannibalized and the
individual plants sold
off.  More Pike County/
Thomaston Mills
history here:
http://home.alltel.net/tuarch/tmhist
ory.htm
The county seat,
Zebulon, was named
after Brig. General
Zebulon Montgomery
Pike, the soldier and
explorer who
discovered Pike's
Peak as part of his
exploration of the
Louisiana Purchase;
his father fought with
George Washington
in the Revolutionary
War.  

More about Zebulon
Pike here:
www.travelsos.net/colorado-jour
neyer/index.cfm?var_file=heritag
e-history/zebulon-pike.htm
Novato USD - Warrant Register
Palo Alto USD - Board Packet / Warrants
Scotts Valley USD - Consent Agenda - Warrants
South San Francisco USD - Board Packet
Western Placer USD -  Warrant Register
Highland Park HSD 113  -  Checks Issued
Huntley CUSD 158 -  Board Packet
J. Sterling Morton HSD 201 -  Check Register
LaGrange SD 105 - A/P Check Register
Lyons Township HSD 204 -  Monthly Paid Bills
Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3- Date & Ag.Packet- Bills List
Mundelein CHS D120 - SAF Bill List
Naperville CUSD 203 - BoardDocs-Consent - Bills & Claims
Left to right:  Kudzu in Floyd County.  Land Between The Lakes National
Recreation Area occupies the portion of Lyon County where southwestern
Kentucky meets northwestern Tennessee; LBL's two man-made lakes, which
in total occupy over 200,000 acres, were created by the Tennessee Valley
Authority; a series of dams generate hydroelectric power.  Lyon County
Middle School in Eddyville, the county seat.  Far right, the Kentucky State
Penitentiary, located a few miles south of Eddyville, is the Department of
Correction's oldest and only maximum security facility; built in 1886, it houses
Kentucky's death-row inmates. Annual cost per inmate:  $23,718.59.
KANSAS   (2)  -  Located near the geographic
heart of continental America, Kansas is not,
contrary to popular opinion, the flattest state in the
Union, but between 20th and 30th.

Olathe USD 233 - Check Journal

Satanta USD 507- Check Register (formerly Ch.Jrnl)
Example:  
To find Dallas ISD's
(TX) check register:   
On DISD's home page,
choose Board of
Trustees, then Meeting
Agendas, then a regular
meeting, then Consent
Agenda, then "Ratification
of List of Bills, Claims and
Accounts."
Elgin U-46 -  List of Bills
Elmhurst Community Unit SD 205 - BoardDocs
Geneva CUSD 304 - Soon Here
Genoa-Kingston CUSD 424 - Consent Agenda - Payables
Grayslake 46 - Per this  they'll be online by March 2010 here
Harlem USD 122 - School Board (hard to find)
Herscher CUSD 2 - Soon
Friends, are you seeking transparency in your local public schools?  Good for you!   Now, let's use that energy as productively as possible with an approach that
generates genuine long-term change in our schools. Be sure to take a smile and the Golden Rule with you when you go. Proven successful field-tested strategies here.  
DELAWARE  (17)  (100%)   -   Thanks to a state law signed by Democrat Gov. Jack Markell in 2009, all 17 Delaware school district check registers along with
most of the state's other governmental offices are online.  You can find them here; click on Education (School Districts) then choose the year and period in which
you're interested.
View All HOWARD T. ENNIS SCHOOL 2009                          FY 1,347 $1,484,183.29
View All INDIAN RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                 FY 23,762 $27,580,831.38
View All JOHN S CHARLTON SCHOOL 2009                        FY 1,023 $2,002,626.55
View All KUUMBA ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 2009     FY 1,002 $1,259,543.65
View All LAKE FOREST SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009              FY 11,065 $13,782,352.29
View All LAUREL SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                          FY 2,933 $4,284,719.39
View All MARGARET STERCK SCHOOL 2009                     FY 1,234 $2,956,408.69
View All MARION T ACADEMY 2009                                     FY 49 $365,611.36
View All MAURICE J. MOYER ACADEMY 2009                    FY 683 $1,338,225.32
View All MILFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                       FY 5,806 $19,207,408.65
View All MOT CHARTER SCHOOL 2009                               FY 1,034 $1,957,698.43
View All NCCDSC 2009                                                           FY 342 $393,309.89
View All NEW CASTLE COUNTY VO-TECH SCH 2009       FY 12,788 $21,086,104.26
View All NEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL 2009                       FY 1,629 $3,676,326.28
View All ODYSSEY CHARTER 2009                                         FY 612 $1,207,792.91
View All PENCADER BUSINESS AND FINANCE 2009             FY 963 $2,667,918.12
View All POLYTECH SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                       FY 4,196 $4,064,420.10
View All POSITIVE OUTCOMES CHARTER SCHL 2009         FY 466 $505,849.55
View All PRESTIGE ACADEMY 2009                                        FY 376 $534,122.00
View All PROVIDENCE CREEK ACAD CHTR SCH 2009          FY 1,356 $1,625,811.11
View All RED CLAY CONSOLIDATED SCH DIST 2009            FY 21,758 $53,542,217.79
View All SEAFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                          FY 5,582 $5,828,636.47
View All SMYRNA SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                            FY 5,100 $33,690,685.35
View All SUSSEX ACADEMY OF ARTS/SCIENCE 2009          FY 594 $897,714.20
View All SUSSEX TECHNICAL SCHL DISTRICT 2009              FY 4,802 $8,807,793.71
View All THE CHARTER SCHOOL OF WILMNGTN 2009         FY 1,330 $2,248,805.32
View All THOMAS A EDISON CHARTER SCHOOL 2009         FY 1,227 $3,162,509.46
View All WOODBRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                  FY 5,401 $5,061,751.27
View All ACADEMY OF DOVER CHARTER SCHL 2009         FY 615 $1,102,902.70
View All APPOQUINIMINK SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009             FY 12,051 $39,903,369.50
View All BRANDYWINE SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                 FY 20,705 $60,050,282.90
View All CAESAR RODNEY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009          FY 9,346 $21,150,065.74
View All CAMPUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL 2009                    FY 873 $1,389,707.01
View All CAPE HENLOPEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009          FY 11,463 $40,382,911.73
View All CAPITAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                          FY 11,895 $33,927,279.27
View All CHRISTINA SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                      FY 29,157 $65,124,550.87
View All COLONIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                       FY 18,695 $39,588,257.66
View All DE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY 2009    FY 354 $758,538.52
View All DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY 2009                  FY 738 $1,535,605.75
View All DELMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT 2009                          FY 2,978 $4,145,013.84
View All EAST SIDE CHARTER SCHOOL 2009                     FY 887 $1,915,255.02
View All FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ACADEMY 2009               FY 638 $1,510,173.34
Appoquinimink SD
Brandywine SD
Caesar Rodney SD
Cape Henlopen SD
Capital SD
Christina SD
Colonial SD
Delmar SD
Indian River SD
Delaware Lt. Gov. Matt Denn (L) watches Gov. Jack Markell sign HB 119, their state's transpar-
ency bill, in August 2009; per Delaware Communications Director Joe Rogalsky, "Gov. Markell's
administration is committed to open, transparent government. He believes the public has a right to know
how their tax dollars are being spent. He has already put the executive branch's checkbook online, and
believes taxpayers also deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent by school districts.
Governor Markell's reforms are giving school districts greater flexibility in making spending decisions,
but with that flexibility comes greater accountability to the public."  Wording of the final bill, at left.
HB 119:  § 1509.  Transparency of District Finances.  Each district and charter school shall post on
its web site by September 1, 2009 and every three months thereafter a check register indicating the
recipient of each check issued by the school district or charter school, the amount of the check, and
identifying information regarding the check sufficient to permit members of the public to seek additional
information regarding the payment in question.  The only information excepted from inclusion in this
database shall be records that would not constitute public records under 29 Del. C. § 10002(g), and
records for which the disclosure would violate any federal or state law.
Clockwise from top left:  Canoeing on the Brandywine; Bunker Hill
Elementary in Appoquinimink School District; Cape Henlopen.
CONNECTICUT   (2)  -  If any districts are
online in the Constitution State, it's because retired
superintendent Armand Fusco (R) has made it his
business to ask, encourage, and persist -- and to
persuade large numbers of people that online
transparency is a good idea.
Oxford Public Schools - BOE Check Register
Trumbull Public Schools - BOE Check Register
ALASKA (0)  -  Although no school districts have posted yet in Alaska, their department of
education check register is online (everything over $1,000).   Alaska was the second state DOE
in the United States to put its checks online; Texas was first.
County Offices of Education (2)

Glenn County   -  Warrant Register
Santa Cruz County -  Acctts Payable Warrant Reg.
From left, Armand Fusco; you can find his book, School Corruption: Betrayal of Children & the Public Trust  here; the Connecticut River.  At far right are three scenes from
Trumbull Public Schools' Agriscience Biotechnology Center.  The name "Connecticut" is from a Mohican/Algonquin Indian word "quonehtacut", which means "long tidal river."
ARIZONA  (0)   
Lake Forest SD
Laurel SD
Milford SD
Red Clay CSD
Seaford SD
Smyrna SD
Sussex Technical SD
Woodbridge SD
HAWAII    (0)
ILLINOIS  (50)  -  That so many school district checks are online in Illinois may be attributed to the efforts
of Adam Andrzejewski (he's the grownup in the red tie at right) and the citizen groups he organized via a
series of coffees and informal talks; Adam recently earned a respectable 15% of the vote in the Illinois
Rebublican gubernatorial primary.
LOUISIANA   (0)
Sherrard CUSD 200 - here
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation's 4th-largest district with 400,000 students and recent annual expenditures of $6.8 billion, is thus far the largest district in the U.S. to post its check register
online, thanks to one trustee (of 9) who has worked for years to bring transparency to her district's spending:  Marta Perez.  From left:  Former M-DCPS execs Orelia San Pedro and
AASA-Superintendent of the Year Rudy Crew, Perez, Miami from the air, Glades Middle School, and Coral Gables HS student group.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (0) - Federal spending's estimated to be
$28,000 per student; the district is run by Mayor Adrian Fenty appointee Michelle
Rhee. a first-time superintendent who was given a $275,000 per year contract
plus a $41,500 signing bonus.  
From left, Michelle Rhee, Mr. & Mrs. Eli Broad and Michelle's fiance Kevin
Johnson at Broad inaugural party for Mr. Obama; DC Mayor Adrian Fenty
campaigning with Mr. Obama; Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, member of
the Senate's Appropriations Committee and personally the subject of a
Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility in Washington (CREW) investigation for
her role in the selling of Voyager curriculum to DC schools.
Hats off to our friends at Illinois Policy
Institute for their transparency efforts!
ALSO:   Georgia school employee salaries and expenses here.
Left, 2008 Cedar Rapids
flood. At right, Iowa really
does have farms with red
barns, the color the likely
result of using ferric oxide
in the paint; it was cheap
and worked as a wood
perservative.
Some Kentucky school check registers
can also be found online at this 501 site.
- With all of Hawaii's schools in one state school system, getting their check registers online would only take a single stroke of a pen by their governor or state superintendent.
HONORABLE MENTION:   Cobb County Schools -  Over $200,000 here
SPECIAL RECOGNITION:
To Colorado Springs
schools for achieving real
financial transparency;
look at what's available on
their website:
  • AP Payments FY10
  • AP Payments FY 08-09
  • District P-Cards FY 08/09
  • District P-Cards FY 09-10
  • High School P-Cards FY 08-09
  • High School P-Cards FY 09-10
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