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Tag Archives: Check Registers
Richland 2 Crawls onto Transparency Bandwagon
The last of South Carolina’s 80-plus school districts has finally posted its check register online, nearly 1.5 years after being required to do so by a state budget proviso. Richland School District 2, one of the 10 largest school districts … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, K-12, Legislation, Local Government
Tagged Check Registers, Richard Eckstrom, Richland School District 2
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District 5 Officials Balk at Adding Information to Check Registers
It’s been more than a year since South Carolina school districts began posting their spending details online in accordance with a 2009 legislative proviso, but efforts by individuals in at least one district to expand transparency were recently rebuffed in … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, K-12, Transparency
Tagged Check Registers, Lexington-Richland School District 5
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An $85,000 “Learning” Trip for Richland 2 Principals
Richland School District 2 spent about $85,000 to send 31 principals and other administrators on a five-day “learning” trip to a Florida resort in July, The Nerve was informed last week in response to an S.C. Freedom of Information Act request. … Continue reading
Posted in K-12, Local Government, Transparency
Tagged Check Registers, Richland School District 2
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Councilman King on Irmo and Transparency
Irmo Town Councilman Hardy King tells a Dutch Fork High School class about his initial reaction to the idea of the city of Irmo putting its check register online.
“It was one of those things that a lot of people were like we’re going to get thousands of calls from people calling up about their cookies … but I said ‘I don’t think so.'” Continue reading
Richland 2 Adds $1,000 Bonus for Teacher Attendance
For more than a year, Richland School District 2 officials have failed to follow a state law directing it to post the spending details of its budget online, arguing that it will not do so until it receives funding from the state. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, K-12, Transparency
Tagged Bonuses, Check Registers, Department of Education, Richland School District 2, Theresa Riley
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Only Two S.C. School Districts Don’t Post Finances
Only Lexington 1 and Richland 2 have failed to post their check registers on the Internet. And Lexington 1 is in the process of purchasing a new software program and plans to upload its check registers once the new system is in place this summer. Continue reading
Posted in K-12, Local Government, Transparency
Tagged Check Registers, Lexington 1, Richland 2, School Districts, South Carolina
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Handful of Districts Hold Out on Transparency
All but four of South Carolina’s 85 school districts – Dillon 2, Lexington 1, Orangeburg 4 and Richland 2 – have posted their check registers online. Continue reading
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