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SCHOOL BOARDS ARE HARD TO CONTACT
A Cincinnati Enquirer examination late last month of 63 public school websites in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky shows that 73 percent don't list direct phone numbers for school board members; 40 percent don't offer direct e-mail addresses. And 33 percent of school systems offer neither. Public school boards make decisions that affect thousands of families. They control the spending of millions of tax dollars, reports Michael D. Clark. They decide sweeping policy issues -- be it reassigning students among buildings, proposing tax increases or deciding whether to require drug tests to participate in student activities. Yet in many cases, people who want to be heard on such important issues get no help when it comes to using school district websites. And those who take the time to show up at a board meeting often run into strict time limits of five minutes or less. "Those results are surprising," says Ohio School Boards Association spokesman Scott Ebright of the newspaper's findings. "In some districts it may be an oversight and in some it may be intentional.

Alabama Association of School Boards
http://www.alabamaschoolboards.org

Alaska Association of School Boards
http://www.aasb.org/

Arizona School Boards Association
http://www.azsba.org/

Arkansas School Boards Association
www.arsba.org

California State School Board Association
www.csba.org

Colorado Association of School Boards
http://www.casb.org/

Connecticut Association of Boards of Education
www.cabe.org

Delaware School Boards Association
www.state.de.us/dsba

Florida School Boards Association
http://www.fsba.org/

Georgia School Boards Association
http://www.gsba.com/

Hawaii
www.k12.hi.us

Idaho
www.idsba.org

Illinois
www.iasb.com

Indiana
(not available)

Iowa
www.ia-sb.org

Kansas
www.ink.org/public/kasb

Kentucky
www.ksba.org

Louisiana
(not available)

Maine

Maryland
www.mabe.org

Massachusetts
www.masc.mec.edu

Michigan
www.masb.com

Minnesota
www.mnmsba.org

Mississippi
(not available)

Missouri
www.msbanet.org

Nebraska
www.nebr-schoolboards.org

Nevada
(not available)

New Hampshire
www.nhsba.org

New Jersey
www.njsba.org

New Mexico
www.ces.org/ces/nmsba/nmsba.html

New York State School Board Association
www.nyssba.org

North Carolina School Boards Association
www.ncsba.org

North Dakota
(not available)

Ohio School Boards Association
www.osba-ohio.org

Oklahoma State School Board Association
www.hitechcoach.com/ossba

Oregon
www.osba.org

Pennsylvania
www.psba.org

Rhode Island
(not available)

South Carolina
www.scsba.org

South Dakota
(not available)

Tennessee
www.tsba.state.tn.us.

Texas
www.tasb.org

Utah
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/

Vermont

Virginia
www.vsba.org

Washington
(not available)

West Virginia
(not available)

Wisconsin
www.wasb.org

Wyoming
w3.trib.com/~wsba