Comments on: Board Packets http://educationmatters.us/2007/10/15/board-packets/ Reform Education because Education Matters. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:37:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: site admin http://educationmatters.us/2007/10/15/board-packets/comment-page-1/#comment-35321 site admin Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:22:16 +0000 http://educationmatters.us/?p=829#comment-35321 You can read my past posts on my journey as a taxpayer advocate in my school districts. I FOIA and post the data I receive and at times I post my analysis. I have discovered items they would have rather the public not have known about. I opposed their referendum a few years back because the data I received did not support their case. The first FOIA I ever made to District 46 was incomplete. That took place at the start of this website as I was asking questions and researching data to find out if I should support the referendum or not. I guess if asking questions about how the district spends the taxpayer monies they receive is inappropriate or irresponsible, or if providing this data to the public at large is inappropriate or irresponsible, then I have been both. When nearly 70% of local property taxes go to the local schools I have the right to ask questions and to disseminate those answers. The school district have a duty to provide this information and yet they make the process cumbersome and sometimes expensive to to find the data and the answers. You can read my past posts on my journey as a taxpayer advocate in my school districts.

I FOIA and post the data I receive and at times I post my analysis. I have discovered items they would have rather the public not have known about. I opposed their referendum a few years back because the data I received did not support their case.

The first FOIA I ever made to District 46 was incomplete. That took place at the start of this website as I was asking questions and researching data to find out if I should support the referendum or not.

I guess if asking questions about how the district spends the taxpayer monies they receive is inappropriate or irresponsible, or if providing this data to the public at large is inappropriate or irresponsible, then I have been both. When nearly 70% of local property taxes go to the local schools I have the right to ask questions and to disseminate those answers. The school district have a duty to provide this information and yet they make the process cumbersome and sometimes expensive to to find the data and the answers.

]]> By: Confused http://educationmatters.us/2007/10/15/board-packets/comment-page-1/#comment-35288 Confused Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:16:26 +0000 http://educationmatters.us/?p=829#comment-35288 I would guess that you must have created some animosity with the district. Any time I request info from the village, or the districts, they just give it to me; power points from board meetings, the info packets, etc. Have you done something inappropriate with the information in the past? Have you acted irresponsibly? I would guess that you must have created some animosity with the district. Any time I request info from the village, or the districts, they just give it to me; power points from board meetings, the info packets, etc. Have you done something inappropriate with the information in the past? Have you acted irresponsibly?

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