By Mike Cronin | Texas Watchdog
HOUSTON – If the response by Houston schools officials to past audits is any indication, district parents and residents could see major changes to the school system’s procurement practices during the next few months.

By Lynn Walsh
When the Houston Independent School District has a problem, it increasingly looks to Nicole West to solve it.
Need schools painted or fences installed? HISD hired Nicole West’s firm Westco. Need security cameras and burglar alarms installed at schools? It hired Westco. Need drapes dry cleaned for a school auditorium? It paid Westco to [...]

State finds repeated violations of government transparency laws

Mark Flatten

Goldwater Institute Watchdog Report

The Goldwater Institute Watchdog Report is a periodic publication intended to identify government corruption and waste and to hold politicians and public agencies accountable to taxpayers.
A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg, Arizona are being targeted by the local school [...]

Diana Lopez at the Sam Adams Alliance discusses the state of transparency within the Florida School System. In conducting an investigation into lobbyist ties in the Florida school system, Ms. Lopez was met with bureaucratic hang-ups, confusion and costs that would prove unaffordable to the average citizen. The biggest scandal of the Sunshine Review investigation, [...]

From Kansas Watchdog:
A citizen watchdog in Liberal, KS used the Kansas Open Records Act to learn about travel expenditures by school administrators in USD 480.
Last week  The Southwest Times reported about a town hall meeting where citizen Steve Helm presented his research:
“During the 2008-09 school year, the administration and principals traveled 500 days to various conferences, [...]