Support Our Work

Right now, Cobb County Schools is making decisions about millions of taxpayer dollars—and too often, those decisions happen behind closed doors, without real oversight, and with zero accountability. That's where we come in.

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 uncovered tens of millions in wasted district funds, including three failed multi-million dollar tech purchases:

• ProTek Life UV lights (contract canceled after a malfunction that made headlines)
• AlertPoint, the original Code Red safety system (project taken offline after countywide malfunction and quietly replaced with the Centegix product. Original cost $5M. Replacement cost another $3M)
• Iggy hand rinsing stations (at least $10M spent. NONE are being used.)

We also exposed the true plans for the $50 Million Event Center (refresher: it was going to be an unnecessary 8,000 seat basketball arena) and recently uncovered 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.

We're expanding our fight.

We're currently transitioning to a 501(c)(4) organization, which will allow us to directly lobby legislators and advocate for policy changes—not just report problems, but fight to fix them.

Your financial support allows us to:
• File more open records requests to uncover waste and misconduct
• Reach every Cobb household with accountability updates through direct mail and digital campaigns
• Hire staff to investigate full-time instead of relying solely on volunteers
• Lobby state legislators for transparency reforms that benefit all Georgia school districts

Every dollar you contribute fuels our fight for transparency—and goes directly toward expanding our reach, our research, and our impact.

(Note: Contributions to our advocacy work are not tax deductible.)