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PARENTS CARE Fiscal Forensics · Lake Forest Districts 67 & 115
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Parents Care Fiscal Forensics

Our Schools. Our Money.
Our Right to Know.

Our community invests millions of dollars every year in public education. We deserve to understand how those dollars are spent.

Yet even basic questions about administrative spending, staffing, and compensation can be surprisingly difficult to answer.

Parents Care is changing that.

Explore Administration Spending Explore Administrator Compensation
Lake Forest School District 67 · Lake Forest High School District 115 · Shared Services
The Transparency Problem

Public Information Isn't Necessarily Transparent.

School financial information is, technically, public. In practice, understanding it is another matter.

01 · Scattered

Information scattered across documents

Understanding a single financial decision may require reviewing district budgets, state financial reports, employment contracts, payroll information, and public records responses, none of which are built to be read together.

02 · Defined away

Definitions that change the picture

What officially counts as "administration" does not necessarily include every cost associated with administrative functions. Accounting classifications and Shared Services arrangements make comparisons more complicated than they appear.

03 · Context missing

Missing context

Individual compensation, employee benefits, staffing changes, and historical spending trends are difficult for ordinary residents to assemble into a coherent picture on their own.

What this actually looks like

Already-published, public-safe records from our source library
Excerpt of a Lake Forest School District 67 Accounts Payable detail check register
D67 · A/P check register

One of dozens of monthly ledgers behind a single spending total.

Excerpt of a Lake Forest High School District 115 Accounts Payable detail check register
D115 · A/P check register

Two districts, two ledgers, two sets of account codes to reconcile.

Excerpt of the district's Administrator and Teacher Salary and Benefits Report memo
State-mandated salary report

Required by law, but the report itself says it understates the full administrative picture.

What Parents Care Has Done

We Did the Homework. Now You Can Explore the Results.

Parents Care has spent months collecting, analyzing, and reconstructing administrative financial information for Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115, including their Shared Services administration.

We've organized years of spending data, examined administrator compensation, investigated how costs are classified, and connected findings to supporting public records.

Our goal is simple: give taxpayers the information they need to understand how their schools operate, ask informed questions, and hold public institutions accountable.

We show our work. You decide what it means.
2School districts covered, D67 and D115, plus their Shared Services administration
31Source documents hosted and browsable, 22 original and 9 privacy-redacted
71Administrator profiles examined for FY2024–25 compensation
135Citation links connecting findings back to the underlying records
Explore the Investigations

Two Questions. Two Investigations.

Start wherever your question starts.

Investigation 1 · Administration Spending

Administration Spending

How much do our school districts spend on administration, how has that changed over time, and what drives those costs?

Explore the spending investigation What Counts as Administration?
Investigation 2 · Administrator Compensation

Administrator Compensation

Who leads our schools, how much are they compensated, and how have their compensation packages changed over time?

Explore the compensation investigation 71 profiles, with sources linked to specific pages where available
Follow the Evidence

Don't Just Take Our Word for It.

This investigation draws on financial reports, employment contracts, payroll and expenditure records, and other public documents from both districts.

Where the underlying document is already approved for public hosting, our findings link directly to it, and where possible to the specific page that supports a figure, not just a generic document folder. Where a document is not yet published, or where a figure relies on an estimate, a partial record, or an analytical judgment, that is disclosed alongside the figure rather than smoothed over.

Not every citation in this investigation points to a hosted document yet. Some rely on records that are still being gathered or reviewed. We say so plainly rather than leaving a broken or misleading link.

Browse the source library

31 underlying documents are hosted and browsable today, 22 unredacted originals and 9 documents redacted to protect individually identifying information, with 135 citation links connecting specific findings back to them.

Browse public source documents

No unredacted version of a privacy-restricted document is hosted here. Redacted documents are labeled as such wherever they appear.