School superintendents hit the books over public records law [View all]
A university researcher earlier this year set out to learn more about the pay differences between male and female educators in Massachusetts. Instead, he got a lesson in stonewalling under the state’s public records law, after more than 200 school systems initially ignored his requests for information.
Now, the superintendents of those school districts are being told to sit down for their own lessons.
The Secretary of State’s Office took the unusual step last week of ordering them to undergo training on how to respond to public records requests. The sheer number of affected districts makes the ruling one of the broadest single actions the state has taken to enforce records laws.
The state also directed the school systems to respond to the requests made by a research assistant for Joseph P. Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/07/19/school-superintendents-get-lesson-state-public-records-law/eYFuKi5nukaZE1kx5ltMEM/story.html
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