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School Board Transparency a Challenge in Digital Age

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 57, Clicks: 4)
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Nora Fleming -- School board members are struggling to interpret laws that govern where and how they do business now that as many conversations take place digitally as they do face to face. As online and digital interactions increase, so too does public concern that officials have more opportunities to violate state open-meetings and open-records laws meant to prevent them from communicating secretly.

1 comments | Tags: nora fleming digital age school board transparency community involvement | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Oklahoma: Open Records Act was passed in 1985

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.oklahoman.com (Views: 67, Clicks: 5)
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The men who wrote Oklahoma’s Open Records Act almost 30 years ago say they are satisfied, for the most part, with its application today. Problems that the media and public faced getting access to records and meetings in the 1970s and early 1980s would be hard to swallow today, said Ben Blackstock, a lobbyist for the Oklahoma Press Association when the act was signed into law in 1985.

0 comments | Tags: oklahoma open records act transparency | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 113, Clicks: 4)
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The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.

0 comments | Tags: k-12 education mark zuckerberg newark new jersey facebook transparency | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

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Oklahoma Legislature

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.oklegislature.gov (Views: 113, Clicks: 8)
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The state legislature’s website is easy to navigate and contains information on senators and house members, their contact information and districts, district boundaries and more.

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Indifference as a Mode of Operation at China Schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 99, Clicks: 2)
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Parents of children at a Beijing school where a car ran over a child called the dispassionate reaction typical of the lack of openness and responsiveness at many state-run institutions in China.

0 comments | Tags: beijing china mass incidents tsinghua university transparency | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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Community working together is key to improving Oklahoma City schools

Newman sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 84, Clicks: 1)
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Lori M. Dickinson -- The documentary “Waiting for Superman” left me feeling many emotions. I think most viewers will experience anger while simultaneously feeling a need to engage in addressing one of the most serious issues of our time — the frightening state of public education in our country.

0 comments | Tags: oklahoma city lori m. dickinson waiting for superman transparency | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Group says 233 school websites improved

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 140, Clicks: 3)
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Nearly half of all school districts in the state improved their website after a transparency group evaluated the sites, according to a recent report from Oklahomans for Responsible Government.

2 comments | Tags: oklahoma oklahomans for responsible government transparency websites | Topic: Online Learning BAD >_<

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The Classroom Showroom

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 140, Clicks: 4)
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Randy Cohen -- The question of profits is not trivial. If a school’s resources — that classroom, those students — are used to develop a commercial product, then the school should share in any profits. This and other issues in bringing a product to market, particularly dicey when children and a public school are involved, should be resolved openly and in advance, not squabbled over after the fact.

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Wisconsin court says teacher e-mails are private

nitajo sumitted ago via http://gazettextra.com (Views: 96, Clicks: 2)
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Wisconsin government employees can safely send personal e-mail messages on their work computers without worrying that they will have to make them public, under a ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court.

0 comments | Tags: wisconsin emails wisconsin rapids school district transparency | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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Transparency law for Texas professors sets off academic freedom debate

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.dallasnews.com (Views: 129, Clicks: 14)
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A law requiring Texas' public colleges and universities to post detailed course information online will take effect this fall, stirring a debate between advocates of transparency and academic freedom.

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Schools' stimulus spending tough to track amid varied reporting rules

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.dallasnews.com (Views: 179, Clicks: 3)
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Alongside textbooks and technology , Texas school districts have doled out stimulus money to car dealerships, Atmos Energy and neighboring cities.

0 comments | Tags: texas stimulus funds school funding transparency texas education agency | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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School boards must mind the money

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 143, Clicks: 1)
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Oklahoma Editorial -- Any decent superintendent should have no problem explaining himself to board members or taxpayers when it comes to finances or other matters. Any reluctance toward transparency should be a giant red flag.

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Race to Top winners chosen arbitrarily -- new report

nitajo sumitted ago via http://voices.washingtonpost.com (Views: 140, Clicks: 3)
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Tennessee and Delaware, the first two states to win education funding through President Obama's $3 billion Race To the Top competition, were chosen through “arbitrary criteria” rather than through a scientific process, according to a new report by a non-partisan research institute.

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Testing times: government, teachers on collision course

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.abc.net.au (Views: 277, Clicks: 23)
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Australia's biggest education union has decided to go ahead with its threatened boycott of next month's national literacy and numeracy tests. The Federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard, is equally adamant the exam will take place.

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Race to the Top -- States' Applications, Scores and Comments

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www2.ed.gov (Views: 101, Clicks: 16)
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As part of its commitment to transparency in governance, the Department is providing the public with the applications it received from states applying to the Race to the Top program and the reviewers' scores and comments. A minimal amount of personal information has been redacted from the applications. The videos of the State presentations will be posted here by April 9th.

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