If you’re going to serve on a public committee that will recommend how taxpayer money should be spent, don’t try to make your decisions secretly. That’s the essence of a lawsuit filed by The Forest Hills Journal against the Forest Hills Local School District. The district’s Facilities Committee allegedly used a secret ballot Sept. 9 to decide on building configuration recommendations to the school board, as well as allowing one committee member to submit a proxy vote for another.   

WINNER: The NAACP's Cincinnati chapter and the Baptist Ministers Conference recently called out Cincinnati Public Schools for not hiring enough minority contractors as part of the district's $1.07 billion plan to renovate and rebuild many schools. It's odd the CPS contract errors were found only after the NAACP did the research.