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By Peyton Wolcott
Each year in Texas our list of so-called property rich schools grows larger thanks mostly to rising property values. This is important because our state “Robin Hood” school financing system forces rich districts to give their excess money to poor districts.

Detroit Public Schools (MI): $ 408 million
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (FL): $ 88 million
Dallas Independent School District (TX): $ 64 million
By Peyton Wolcott
After national security at home and abroad, there is no more urgent crisis facing the United States today than to make sure our public schools remain strong, free and locally run. To do this, they're going to have to stop wasting money and learn to better educate our schoolchildren for fewer dollars.

By Peyton Wolcott
Pop quiz: Do you know whether your local school superintendent has a personal credit card paid by your district? If not, next time you bump into them in line at the pizza parlor or at church on Sunday morning, maybe you can think about asking him or her -- if you feel comfortable asking.

By Peyton Wolcott
What are some positive ways local parents, taxpayers and board members
can use this information? As we enter the third week in July, school districts across the nation are firming up their budgets for the next school year. As part of this process, they are scouring every possible area for ways to save extra pennies.

Peyton Wolcott, founder of the national online grassroots school district check register movement, will be on the radio in New Hampshire Saturday morning, May 10 to answer questions from radio hosts Dave Lambert and Skip Murphy regarding the rapidly growing movement.

By Peyton Wolcott
It's spring -- and school board election season is already in full tilt. Yard signs have sprouted up along with the dandelions, push cards are being handed out, and good folks who want better schools are knocking on doors in their neighborhoods, campaigning for their candidates who are also good folks of character who have said they want better schools.

By Peyton Wolcott
Call me the Boswell* of the national online school district check register transparency movement. Because Texas in a very short period of time already leads the nation in the number of local school districts with their check registers online -- the number has jumped from 3 to 148 in just 17 months -- folks in other states have begun to take notice and are attempting to replicate our success.

More is coming to light about why Chris Comer resigned at the Texas Education Agency as the science curriculum director, and it has less to do with "evolution vs. creationism" and more to do with possible skullduggery on her part.