School data charges vary widely among districts, panel finds
From Sunshine Review
December 9, 2008
[edit] School data charges vary widely among districts, panel finds
"Identical public records requests sent to every state school district resulted in huge disparities in cost estimates for the information, the South Carolina Policy Council says.
Florence District 5’s estimated charge for the records was $464. Greenville County Schools’ estimate was $35,000.
“The public has a right to this information,” said Bryan Cox, a spokesman for the Policy Council, a Columbia research organization.
“It is public record, and it is supposed to be provided to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. But what we have in practice is exorbitantly high fees, which make it nearly impossible for the average citizen to see how school districts are spending public money.”"
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