TEA: The Check Is In The (E)Mail

The Texas Education Agency, by way of attempting to set an example for other government agencies, has put its check registere online (here).

Suffice it to say, it is as boring as three-day-old dry toast. I got through the “C’s” before I fell asleep. If I hadn’t dozed off in front of the computer and been awoken by the thud of my head against the monitor, I might have never been awakened. Seriously, this is so dull it will put you in a coma.

I actually thought, when I woke up, I had found a payment to some lobby group of something. It was a check to CDW Government for more than seven grand. Oh, but no. It’s some kind of educational software company or something. Yawn.

Most of the checks are for disbursments to public school districts and charter schools, with a few councils of government and various and sundry vendors thrown in for good measure, except for a nearly $5,000 check to the Raddison Hotel in San Antonio. (Ok, so I also skimmed the list looking for something interesting, too). Before you go panicking, though, it was probably for an educator’s conference. They have a lot of those, so it is a legitimate expenditure.

If we get some NoDoze, we’ll go through the rest of the list…you know, just to make sure they aren’t paying the Federalist Group $10,000 bucks a month or something.