Submitted by MQSullivan on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 12:04pm.
How does your school district spend your money? Betcha you can't find out... That's why taxpayers should be contacting their lawmakers in support of legislation filed State Rep. Mark Strama (D-Austin), H.B. 1314, and State Rep. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), H.B. 1307. Of the two, Creighton's HB 1307 is more comprehensive. Both would shine much-needed sunlight on Texas' public education spending.
Strama was the lead author on last Session's HB 3430 to provide extensive statewide fiscal transparency. Strama's bill would simply require school districts to post their financial statements quarterly.
Creighton, one of our Taxpayer Champions from the last Session, would go much further and do a lot more for the cause of transparency. His legislation would require districts to post their expenditures -- checks written and credit card transactions -- within one month.
Taxpayers should demand both. We get handed the bill, it's time for us to be allowed to examine the receipt.
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I have Fletcher as my rep and Patrick as my Senator. I will contact them, but I bet they are way ahead of me on this one.
The fact that we need to pass a bill to allow this is shocking. What's more shocking is that, while I consider myself more informed than most, I had no idea this was needed. The masses of citizens have lost sight of the purpose of government.
Sad.
Okay ... who do we contact
Okay ... who do we contact to get this 'supported'???
Interview With State Rep. Creighton
Public schools have No accountability
Cleburne ISD has had its check register posted on line for some time now but its always out of date by a couple of months or more. However that did not stop TEA from investigating the district for 16 months and finding them guilty of federal NCLB fund misuse. Only $820,000 of 10.7 million was examined and TEA auditors found that 44.3% of those funds were misused. Almost 50%. Have we had any more audits though five years back were recommended? No. Why not? Cleburne ISD was assessed as a high risk grantee, fined $362,000, put under sanctions and assigned a TEA monitor at $75 per hour. Who pays for all of this plus the attorneys fees and a new interim superintendent? The taxpayers. What happened to the superintendent and others involved? They were all paid thousands of dollars to leave and no one was fired or reprimanded in any way. Our CFO was required to step down and he still works for the district making $451 dollars a day or $120,000 per year. Did he get his salary reduced or fired? No. He just got his contract approved for another two years by our school board. But he could not produce over $50,000 in receipts for expenditures that TEA asked for from the district. Term contracts allow misbehaving school superintendents and admistrators to walk away with thousands of dollars each year and who does it cost? Your kids and the taxpayers. Don't expect the district to correct this by themselves its going to have to be mandated by the legislators if their not being paid off by your favorite lobbyist. Talking transparency and online check registers is great but without accountabilty it is useless. I say don't bail em' out fire em!
Public school accountability regarding bonds
How can an outside audit be requested on the expenditures of a bond? Is there any state oversight agency?
Our school district has a bond in excess of $120 million. As soon as the voters passed it, the board began making significant changes to it, in my opinion, violating the basic tenets of the original bond. Major items of the original bond was changes. These items were what got the bond passed in the first place.
Who can we contact?????? Please don't tell me that the only recourse is to vote these morons out. In the business world, these practices would constitute fraud.
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