Northampton Area School District, Pennsylvania
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Northampton Area School District, Pennsylvania is one of 501 school districts in Pennsylvania.
[edit] School website evaluation
[edit] The good
- The current budget is published.[1]
- The names and contact information for all administrative officials are published.[2]
- The names and contact information for all school board members are published.[3]
- Information on required background checks is provided.[7]
- Information on public records is provided.[8]
- Bids and bid results are published.[9]
- Current AYP results are published.[10]
- General tax information is published. [11]
[edit] The bad
- Complete contracts are not published.
- Tax rates are not published.
- There is no information on audits and lobbying.
[edit] Public access complaint
In February 2009, the Northampton Area School Board discussed the district's 2009-2010 budget document at a meeting. A local newspaper, the Morning Call, sought unredacted copies of the budget document using the Pennsylvania Right to Know Law. The district did not comply, so the newspaper filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records.
In a decision issued on March 30, the OOR ruled that the board was within its rights to white out dollar figures from the 2009-10 budget document that it gave the newspaper. A staffperson for the OOR said that the board had the right to protect "pre-decisional deliberative information".[12]
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