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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Overpaying for schools
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Before jumping into today’s topic I want to thank Aileen and Kristina for filling in while I was on vacation.
Now that I’m back, I have a lot to catch up on. There was so much news, but what really caught my attention was the article Heather Vogell wrote about a costly land deal.
The story says that Fulton County school board members missed the chance in 2005 to buy land for a new elementary school in Sandy Springs. Instead the district paid nearly twice as much for the property two years later.
It raises questions about how school boards make decisions about where to buy land and how much they pay for it.
These questions become more important as voters approve more SPLOST projects. Fayette school board members are the latest to ask for the special purpose local option sales tax to pay for school construction, renovation and other improvements.
Do you trust school boards to pay the right price for school land and construction? What would you want them to do differently?
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