BOISE -- A state lawmaker's plan to make public education spending more transparent would require Idaho school districts and more than a dozen charter schools to upload their checkbooks online.
The House Education Committee voted Tuesday to introduce Rep. Phil Hart's bill.
The Athol Republican says his measure would require school districts with 300 or more students to detail spending in downloadable documents available online by the end of 2010.
School districts would have to upload their finances into a searchable Web site by the end of 2011, under the plan.
The measure is modeled after similar efforts nationwide to bring more transparency to public spending and would include 84 of Idaho's 115 school districts.
Hart says 16 of the state's 36 charter schools have at least 300 students and would have to participate.
