Sunshine Week: Open Records in Schools

Several articles on open records issues in schools:

• Meg Jones: School District loses 2 suits over lack of transparency

  Barry Hoerz was kicked out of a meeting of the Weyauwega-Fremont School Board in July.

  What's unusual is that Hoerz was a member of the School Board, and he was told to leave because he was writing notes during closed session.

  A Waupaca County circuit judge agreed with Hoerz after a four-hour trial in January and ordered the district to pay a $300 fine as well as attorney expenses and other fees totaling $9,133, according to court records.

  While squabbles among school board members and superintendents are not rare, it is unusual for a school board member to sue the board for violating the state's open meetings law.

• Madison Parents School Safety Site:

  This week is national “Sunshine Week” (Sunshine Week web site; Sunshine Week blog), promoting open government and the public’s right to know. For last year’s Sunshine Week, the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle conducted a freedom of information audit to obtain copies of its school district’s reports of violent and disruptive incidents in school buildings.

• How to Reforum your local School Board
• Is it Possible to Have a Good School District with Less Money? Presentation to the Florence School District

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 14, 2007 3:37 AM
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