Penn State, other schools cautious on disclosure rules

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Pennsylvania State University and three other state-related schools reacted cautiously as legislation with bipartisan support was introduced Monday in the state House to bring those campuses fully under the Right-to-Know Law.

That bill and a soon-to-be-introduced Senate version may portend a fight pitting those schools, which long have enjoyed an exemption rare among public universities, against lawmakers who in growing numbers say taxpayers have a right to know how those schools spend their money.

A similar effort to bring Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, and Temple and Lincoln Universities fully under disclosure rules failed in the months before the law's latest incarnation took effect in January 2009.

Penn State, other schools cautious on disclosure rules | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/05/2011

Unbelievable. State universities who claim the public has no "right to know" how they spend their money. Secrecy = ?????