Thanks to Paul Fisher for this link to an outstanding example of school district transparency: the East Penn School District’s website.
Paul was a regular contributor here before I clumsily deleted his posts during a botched try to repair hacker damage to this blog. Paul writes: “Wow!! Very impressive use of technology to give all stakeholders a look into the complex (and sometimes shrouded) world of school finance.”
Yes. I haven’t decided exactly how to redo my old “Transparency Honor Roll,” which I also managed to delete. It praised school districts that try hard to communicate with their constituents, especially on financial matters. In any case, efforts like this East Penn (Lehigh County) merit widespread notice and applause.
3:16 pm on November 28th, 2009 1
Hear, hear! That’s one incredible site! Here’s also to hoping you can resurrect the honor roll. I need more examples to share and will be on the lookout for the guidelines that EPSD used to select their service provider or tool suite as well as how they selected the metrics they did.