State-related secrecy: Change the law

From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE:

Secrecy at Penn State didn’t start with its pedophilia scandal. And sadly, it won’t end because of Pennsylvania’s right-to-know law. It exempts the four state-related universities, placing Penn State, Lincoln, Temple and Pitt among the higher-education institutions that are least transparent to taxpayers.

That abysmal national ranking comes from open-government groups WikiFOIA and Sunshine Review, the Pennsylvania Independent reports.

The law keeps state-related universities’ salary, travel and other administrative records out of public view. And that prevents accountability for those institutions’ use of public money…

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