SR in Orlando Sentinel: “Schools rated on record response”

For Sunshine Review’s Back-to-School initiative, we sent information requests to Florida school districts, asking for lobbying information. You can now find our prescription for more open government on the Orlando Sentinel: School districts should enact policies to ensure all new records are stored electronically and are searchable. These policies would open formerly obscure school business documents, such as contracts with vendors and check registers, to public scrutiny. In this way, our government would partner with its citizens, rather than act as an obstacle. For the whole story, click here.