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Whitehall-Coplay Area SD and union reach agreement

November 30th, 2009 at 9:20 am » Comments (0)

It didn't take the Whitehall-Coplay School Board (Lehigh County) and the teachers union very long to reach a consensus after receiving the fact finder's report on November 18, 2009. On Tuesday, ...more »

Open Records Office decisions could open board contract offers

July 24th, 2009 at 5:01 pm » Comments (0)

Recent Pennsylvania Office of Open Records (OOR) decisions seem to me to imply that any citizen can get on demand whatever contract package a school board has officially offered ...more »

Making the Open Records law work

February 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm » Comments (1)

A comment from "Thomas" on the previous post on Sunshine Law rights raises an interesting question: Given the current laws, can school boards or other government agencies charge for a request ...more »

Transparency Symposium — “There’s good news tonight.”

January 13th, 2009 at 10:16 pm » Comments (0)

The Commonwealth Foundation (which provides support for this blog) sponsored a fine symposium this morning, "Opening Pennsylvania Government." I came away encouraged -- psyched up, actually. I expect ...more »