Most schools turned over information, survey shows

Montana's school districts receive mostly high marks when it comes to releasing public documents, but not everyone agrees on what is public or who gets to see them.

Citizens conducting a statewide check of public access to public records this summer visited the largest school district in each of the state's 56 counties, asking for the salaries of the superintendents of the largest school district. In 52 counties, they got the information.

Officials in two counties declined to provide the information. School offices in one county, Wibaux, were closed when the survey was conducted, and the citiz...