Sunshine Review:Pennsylvania school transparency project

From Sunshine Review

School Board Transparency
Public School System Overview School District Spending District Transparency Focal Points Teacher Contracts and Negotiations District Transparency Checklist
Related Resources
Pennsylvania School Districts School District Website Checklist Evaluation of district websites Pennsylvania Department of Education Pennsylvania School Boards Association
Links
School Board Transparency Blog Commonwealth Foundation
Pennsylvania Portal

Goal: To create a list of articles for each state regarding school transparency issues.

[edit] Current To Do List

1. Categorize pages
2. Add content to pages lacking content, such as Negotiable issues discussed in Pennsylvania school contracts
3. Finish stubs for Pennsylvania school districts
4. Create a chart of school board members for each school district in Pennsylvania. See this project page for guidance.

[edit] Discussion pages

• For each page make sure you add the state project template to the discussion page. This will be the state abbreviation like {{al}} It will look something like this:

This page is part of Project Alabama, a Sunshine Review Project dedicated to articles related to Alabama.

[edit] Templates

• Pages relating to school transparency in Pennsylvania should have the template {{Pennsylvania school transparency}}. If a page does not have it, please add it.

[edit] Categories

The following categories should be used when writing articles on school transparency issues in Pennsylvania.
Note:If a page regards a Pennsylvania taxpayer-funded lobbying association, see the category hierarchy on the taxpayer-funded lobbying project page.

[edit] Contracts

Category:Pennsylvania school contracts: Articles related to school contracts and negotiations go here. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:School contracts.

[edit] School districts

Category:Pennsylvania school districts: School district articles are categorized here. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:School districts.

[edit] Vendors

Category:Pennsylvania school vendors: This category is for articles on school vendors and related topics. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:School vendors.

[edit] School unions

Category:Pennsylvania school unions: Union articles, whether they be pages on the union, union negotiations, or scandals, go here. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:School unions.

[edit] Government agencies

Category:Pennsylvania government education agencies: Any government organization which oversees a part of the education system is categorized under this category. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:Government education agencies.

[edit] School Transparency

Category:Pennsylvania school transparency: This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania schools and Category:School transparency, and includes articles related specifically to school transparency in Pennsylvania

• Category:Pennsylvania school transparency legislation: A sub category of PA school transparency, this category includes legislation which impacts transparency in schools and school districts. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania school transparency and Category:Pennsylvania school legislation.
• Category:Pennsylvania school transparency advocates: A sub category of PA school transparency, this category includes articles on specific school transparency advocates. This category is placed in the parent categories Category:Pennsylvania school transparency and Category:Transparency advocates.

[edit] Content

For adding information to pages or creating new articles, use the Commonwealth Foundation's website and the School Board Transparency website listed under the Commonwealth Foundation transparency template.