State by state comparison of school finance transparency
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The following is a table comparing all states that conduct elections on the issue of school finance transparency.
For a detailed explanation on how transparency and accountability are applied towards public school financing, please see State-by-state comparison of school bond and tax laws.
Explaining table of metrics
The following comparisons under the transparency category are
- Posts Checkbook Online-If a state requires to have school districts put their checkbooks online.
- Posts Contracts Online-If a state requires to have school districts put their contracts online.
- Stimulus Funding-If a state fully discloses which school districts received money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 also known as the stimulus bill.
- Election Results-If a state requires school districts to report their election results to a government agency or a private agency monitors the results
State by-state comparison table
| State | Posts Checkbook Online | Posts Contracts Online | Stimulus Funding | Election Results |
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| Colorado | Pending Legislation | Pending Legislation | |
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| Kansas | Pending Legislation | |
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| Michigan | Pending Legislation | Pending Legislation | |
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| Texas | Pending Legislation | Under Evaluation by State Comptroller | |
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- * Only for School Board Members Travel Expenses
- + Delaware stopped posting school bond election results in 2002.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Alabama Office of Recovery Database
- ↑ State of Arizona Stimulus Map
- ↑ State of Arizona Stimulus Map
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Connecticut Department of Recovery Database
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Delaware Office of Recovery database
- ↑ Delaware Elections Commission database (dead link)
- ↑ Florida Recovery Database
- ↑ Open Georgia
- ↑ Georgia Recovery Funding Map
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State Database
- ↑ Illinois Recovery Database-Search via an Excel File
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Education database
- ↑ Indiana Recovery Website-Search by County
- ↑ Indiana Secretary of State-Official Election Database
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Iowa Department of Education database
- ↑ Kansas Recovery Database
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ Kentucky At Work Database
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State Bond Election Database
- ↑ Maine Office of Recovery
- ↑ Michigan Stimulus Funding Map-Click by County
- ↑ Michigan State Treasurer's School bond election database
- ↑ State of Minnesota stimulus funding map
- ↑ Minnesota School Boards Association Database
- ↑ Missouri Accountability Portal
- ↑ Missouri State Auditor (dead link)
- ↑ North Carolina Recovery-Access data via Excel file
- ↑ North Carolina Department of Education-School Building Clearinghouse
- ↑ State of New Jersey Stimulus Funding Map
- ↑ Ballotpedia link to New Jersey School Boards Association bond election database
- ↑ New Mexico Department of Recovery Database
- ↑ New Mexico Bond Database
- ↑ New York transparency requirement
- ↑ See Through New York
- ↑ [6]
- ↑ [7]
- ↑ Open Nevada Stimulus Funding Database (dead link)
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State-Search by County Database
- ↑ Yes-Click By County
- ↑ Ohio Department of Education Database
- ↑ Oklahoma Recovery Database
- ↑ Oregon Recovery Database
- ↑ Oregon School Boards Association Election Database
- ↑ [8]
- ↑ [9]
- ↑ South Carolina Recovery database
- ↑ South Carolina School Boards Association bond election history
- ↑ South Dakota Recovery Database
- ↑ Texas Office of Recovery database
- ↑ Texas Bond Review Board Database
- ↑ [10]
- ↑ [11]
- ↑ Utah Stimulus Funding Map
- ↑ Washington State Recovery Act Funding Map
- ↑ Washington Department of Public Instruction Election Database
- ↑ West Virginia Recovery Database
- ↑ Wisconsin Office of Recovery and Reinvestment Database
- ↑ Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Bond Referenda Database
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