Colorado Spending Transparency

Crowded classrooms. Longer walks to school. Dirtier school buildings.  More likely – a few less lattes from Starbucks and smaller cabins for the carnival cruise.  How will they survive?  And to think some stingy Coloradans are suggesting that before school districts ask for any more money, they should be more transparent with their revenues and expenditures.  Imagine that — show taxpayers how their tax dollars are being spent. 

Mark your calendars. To discuss spending transparency in Colorado school districts and pending legislation, transparency advocate (and good friend of COST) Natalie Menten and Independence Institute policy analyst Ben DeGrow join host Jon Caldara on Independent Thinking. Tune in this Friday night at 8:30 p.m. to KBDI Channel 12; and repeated the following Tuesday evening at 5 p.m.

Also, be sure to check Ben’s latest Issue Backgrounder titled Shining the Light on Colorado School Spending.  The paper “makes the case for online financial transparency in K-12 education.”  Ben found that two Colorado school districts already put their check registries online.  Find out if your school district is one of them.  Read the paper.

Remember:  No taxation without information!