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Watching The Funds-Cobb

Tracking Our Tax Dollars.
Supporting Our Schools.

We are a powerful grassroots organization that demands transparency, accountability, oversight & fiscal responsibility from our Cobb County Schools Board Members and Superintendent Chris Ragsdale.

Why Watching The Funds-Cobb Exists

In 2021, the Cobb County School Board majority approved $12 million for untested Covid mitigation technology without data and with no opportunity for some board members to ask questions. Four Cobb women (three moms and a retired educator) said enough was enough and founded Watching the Funds-Cobb to champion transparency and responsible school spending for all students and taxpayers.

Since then we have filed dozens of open records requests and researched and shared information on everything from three failed multi-million dollar tech purchases to the true plans for the $50 Million Event Center (refresher: it was going to be an unnecessary 8,000 seat basketball arena). And recently, uncovering the Civil RICO suit against sitting Vice Chair John Cristadoro, who defrauded a client out of $250,000 while running for his Post 5 school board seat.

What We Bring To Cobb County Schools

Transparency & Oversight

We shed light on how decisions are made for our schools through open records requests and relationships we’ve established with the media and the community.

Accountability

We hold our school board and district leadership accountable for the decisions they make and demand they engage with the community when making these decisions.