Tool
Teacher Pay Explorer
Enter your step, lane, and years. See what you make, what each raise scenario means for you, and how you'd do in the eight surrounding districts.
Open the Explorer
The records are public. We make them readable.
School budgets. Board votes. Salary schedules. City finances. Ballot issues. We read Toledo’s public records, explain them in plain language, and link every number to the document it came from. Then Toledo decides.
We do not take positions, endorse candidates, or recommend how to vote.
Every number links to the document it came from.
No positions. No endorsements. No recommendations.
Free to read, free to share. Always.
What we do
Not just teacher pay.
Everything.
Teacher pay is where we started, because it’s where the records were clearest. But the mission is bigger: any public record that affects Toledo, explained so anyone can understand it.
Tool
City Budget Explorer
Where does Toledo's money go? The adopted budget by department, what one percent would change, and what it costs per resident. Every figure sourced.
Open the budget
Reports
Reports
The annual Toledo Teacher Pay Report, plain-language explainers for every ballot issue, and a contract tracker when talks open. Sourced, reviewed, no recommendations.
Read the reportsRecords
Records Desk and Vote Watch
Every public records request we've filed and what came back. Every school board vote that touches money or staffing, and how each member voted.
See the recordsYouth
Receipts: Youth Records Fellowship
A paid, year-long fellowship where Toledo teens investigate how public money works, then publish what they find as short videos with the source document on screen.
Meet the Receipts CrewHow it works
How a 400-page PDF becomes a four-minute read.
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We file the request
Under Ohio's Public Records Act. Every request is logged publicly.
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We read every page
Budgets, schedules, minutes, forecasts. All of it.
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We explain it plainly
With every figure linked to the page it came from.
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The council reviews it
Teachers, parents, and accountants read it before anyone else.
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We publish and brief
Free to everyone. Offered as a briefing to the union, the board, and the press.
One example
Start with a paycheck.
The Teacher Pay Explorer is the first tool. More are coming: the city budget, board votes, ballot issues. This is what “readable” looks like.
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The Mona K Project runs on small donations and volunteer hours. Every dollar goes to records requests, review, and publishing.