School Boards Are Outdated and Unproductive

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School boards are designed to do nothing. Don't believe me? Look at what is happening with one Provo School Board member, Sandy Packard, who is taking her job seriously. Here is an elected politician who is trying to find out how money is being spent, but the district is doing what bureaucracies do well -- stonewalling or overwhelming citizens and elected officials with paperwork. It raises the question: Who's in charge?

For over two years, Packard has been trying to carry out her fiduciary responsibility as an elected official by working to find out how individual schools are collecting and spending tax dollars and private funds. The district bureaucrats are telling her that it would require copying 3,600 pages, and she would have to pay hundreds of dollars to get the information. One would think that, after the publicity about the fraud case in the Davis School District, elected officials and school administrators would be solidly behind trying to be accountable to the public.

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School Boards Are Outdated and Unproductive

Parker's fight for accountability is a good example of the bureaucratic barriers government agencies create to protect and insulate themselves from...

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