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(Editor's note: Last updated October 4, 2011.)
Part of the Mackinac Center’s ongoing government transparency project “Show Michigan the Money,” this database links users to the checkbook registers of the school districts that publish such data online. Users can track school districts’ expenditures check by check at these sites. More school districts are expected to publish their checkbook registers online in the months to come.
Algonac Community Schools
(Click "Bills for Approval" on left)
Berkley School District
(click on "List of Bills")
Brighton Area Schools
(Check registers are included with board packet PDFs)
Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools
Chassell Township School District
Chippewa Valley School District
Clarenceville School District
(Click "Central Office" then "Business Office")
(click on "Accounts Payable" on the left)
Dearborn Public Schools
(See "check registers" on bottom)
East China School District
(Click on "Board of Education," then see
"Meeting Agenda")
East Detroit Public Schools
(Click on "Agenda Packet" for each meeting, then see
"Payment of the Bills")
East Grand Rapids Public Schools
Forest Hills Public Schools
(Click on "Finance and Operations" on the left)
Freeland Community School District
Grosse Pointe Public Schools
(see "monthly financials")
Howell Public Schools
(scroll down to finance reports)
International Academy of Flint
(click on finance meeting you're interested in on left, scroll down and select "Treasurer's Report")
Lakeview School District
(see "board minutes")
Livingston Educational Service Agency
Livonia Public Schools
(See "Business Matters" in the agenda packets for
"regular" school board meetings)
Madison School District -- Adrian, MI
(Click and read to end of board agendas)
Manchester Community Schools
(scroll down to the blue section, the check register is under "Vendor Disbursements")
Marlette Community Schools
(Click “Board of Education” at left, then scroll down for check registers)
New Lothrop Area Public Schools
(Click "Information" and then "District Budget")
Oakland Intermediate School District
Onsted Community Schools
(Check registers are in every board agenda)
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools
Riverview Community School District
Royal Oak Neighborhoods Schools
St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency
South Lyon Community Schools
(Scroll down to accounts payable)
Stephenson Area Public Schools
Swartz Creek Community Schools
Traverse City Area Public Schools
(Check register link is on right
under "financial reports")
Trenton Public Schools
(To find check register, first click on 1st school board meeting of each month, then click on “General Consent Agenda” then click on “Approval of Financial Reports”)
Troy School District
(See "check registry" at bottom of page).
Vicksburg Community Schools
(Click on "Agenda Packet" for each meeting, then see "Approval of the Following
General Fund Invoices" under "Board Action Required")
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
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