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A new wiki project called Sunshine Review takes citizen access to government very seriously. One of the first projects it has undertaken is a review of Florida school districts for what SR calls transparency. The initial evaluations, released in August and based on public Web sites awards DeSoto County School District a D minus.
Specifically, the superintendent and school board members, who collectively pocket more than a quarter million a year in local tax money in the form of salaries and benefits, fail the transparency test in key areas including communicating how tax money is allocated and spent and who are the actual elected officials and top administrative personnel. The amazing part is, no other Florida district's Web site failed this category!
The school district, says Sunshine Review, fails in public access to its public records, audits, and fails in its background check procedures.
Just thought you should know.
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