Post puts K-12 spending under microscope

by Amy Oliver | 6:49 am, March 1, 2010

Facing substantial budget cuts, Colorado’s K-12 education establishment may have to rethink how it spends money courtesy of the transparency movement we have championed.  Using transparency Web sites from Jeffco and Douglas County Schools as well as information from Denver Public Schools, the Denver Post found “found millions of dollars being spent with limited oversight [...]

Transparency more than just financial

by Amy Oliver | 4:32 pm, February 2, 2010

Residents of the Poudre School District in Fort Collins realize that transparency means more than financial.  The Fort Collins Coloradoan and some taxpayers are demanding more transparency when it comes to school district policies.  
According to Coloradoan editor Bob Moore, the district’s deliberate withholding of information about the arrests of two employees was unlike anything he had ever seen [...]

Colorado school districts school state on transparency

by Amy Oliver | 7:01 am, January 20, 2010

Some Colorado school districts aren’t waiting for the General Assembly to mandate financial transparency.  Greeley Evans School District Six in Northern Colorado has placed its check reigstry online.
But most impressive is what Colorado’s largest school district Jeffco Public Schools has provided for taxpayers on its financial transparency Web page.  Interested taxpayers set the date parameters, [...]

Newspaper recognizes importance of transparency

by Amy Oliver | 10:31 am, December 28, 2009

The Greeley Tribune, in its Sunday house editorial, acknowledges the role that transparency played in the recent defeat of 3A, a massive property tax increase for Greeley Evans School District 6.
A lack of transparency in its financial records was one of the reasons some cited for voting against the recent mill levy override. It became evident during that [...]

School district still disrespecting taxpayers

by Amy Oliver | 7:05 am, December 15, 2009

Apparently three members of the Greeley Evans School District 6 school board still have little respect for taxpayers.  According to the Greeley Tribune, in a split decision, the school board voted down a modest transparency proposal from new board member Brett Reese.  Reese’s proposal would have required the district to post on-line every transaction over $1000. 
Opposing board [...]

Oppose transparency; pay the price

by Amy Oliver | 11:34 pm, November 3, 2009

We’ve warned elected officials before.  Oppose transparency, and pay a political price later. Transparency Czarina Amy Oliver Cooke reports that our predication came true as voters in Greeley Evans School District 6 overwhelming opposed 3A, a massive, forever property tax increase. 
Ridiculous amounts of money and institutional support can’t overcome the will of voters who simply want to know how their tax dollars are [...]

Greeley’s 3A: a teachable moment?

by Amy Oliver | 5:42 pm, October 12, 2009

There is no guarantee that voters will reward a transparent government by approving a tax increase.  But it sure is easier for any government to make its case for more money when it has shown taxpayers the respect they deserve by providing detailed financial transparency.  With detailed, online financial transparency, government demonstrates that it wants to be a [...]

Headline: Taxpayers don’t need more transparency

by Amy Oliver | 4:11 pm, October 5, 2009

Greeley Tribune publisher Bart Smith criticized taxpayers who demand more transparency in the face of 3A, a massive property tax increase for Greeley Evans School District 6.  In an opinion editorial urging a yes vote, Smith reveals his own naive understanding of transparency in Colorado. 
Others who say they want more transparency show their lack of knowledge of how [...]

‘Trust us’

by Amy Oliver | 4:23 pm, August 11, 2009

“..we are a board very concerned about transparency and oversight — about letting our constituency know what it is we are doing,” Greeley Evans District 6 school board member Judy Kron said at a meeting last night.
Really?
Perhaps Kron should read COST.  Then she would know that her fellow school board member Bob Stack testified against [...]

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