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Support grows for putting public spending online
The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner
Jun 22, 2008 7:59 PM (546 days ago)

A grassroots movement to have public schools post their check registers online is spreading like a Texas wildfire, which is appropriate since the Lone Star state is where the idea originated less than two years ago. Some 200 school districts in 14 states now post $47 billion of expenditures online, including Miami – the fourth largest school system in the nation. Such an extraordinary degree of financial transparency is unheard of in the vast majority of public school districts across the country. That should change.

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