Jorge Mesa Tejada Archives

SDGANH: Reminder! Register for Budget Nuts and Bolts: SDGA Seminar – April 20

April 16, 2019 Skip

Join the School District Governance Association for an informative seminar: Budget Nuts and Bolts Have you ever wondered how to decipher a school or town budget? What do account numbers mean? How are Default Budgets built? What’s an MS-636 or MS-DTB? If so, this seminar is for you. These and many other topics pertaining to … Read more

SDGANH Improving Governance Seminar Series – Legal Basis: Fact or Fiction. Believe your Superintendent or actual NH’s Education Law?

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Skip

Improving Governance Seminar Series

Legal Basis: Fact or Fiction

As a School Board or Budget Committee member, do you often wonder what your statutory authority is and where it comes from? How can you reconcile what your Superintendent tells you versus what the NH RSAs (e.e., NH Law) command you to do?

Join us for a discussion of what is fact and what is fiction at the first SDGA seminar of the season. Bring your questions! Register here via email.

SPEAKER:
Jorge Mesa-Tejada

Former Hampstead School Board member (8 years) &
Budget Committee member (16 years)

Saturday, September 22, 2018
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Nackey Loeb School of Communications
749 East Industrial Park Drive, Manchester, NH

SDGA Improving Governance Seminar Series – What is your statutory Authority & Where does it comes from?

September 26, 2018August 31, 2018 Skip

Improving Governance Seminar Series Legal Basis: Fact or Fiction As a School Board or Budget Committee member, do you often wonder what your statutory authority is and where it comes from? How can you reconcile what your Superintendent tells you versus what the NH RSAs command you to do? Come join us for a discussion of … Read more

Timberlane “Snipers” Take Aim at Jorge Mesa-Tejada

July 15, 2024January 17, 2016 Steve MacDonald

GrokTALK! Exclusive: When a budget committee opponent of a $4.5 Million dollar construction bond poked fun at the School Districts slick-infomercial–which is using fear to claim the construction is needed to protect students from a potential sniper attack–the District used his response to get a restraining order against him. This is the inside story from … Read more

January 16th, 2016

July 15, 2024January 16, 2016 Steve MacDonald

In a GrokTALK! Exclusive Jorge Mesa-Tejada explains what really went down at that Hampstead committee meeting as opposed to what the NH media has been misreporting. Kevin Kervick is back in NH to discuss Campus culture, Students for Common Sense, and Campus carry. And Doug Sachletben (Club for Growth) joins us to talk about the … Read more

GrokTALK! – Why The Lawsuit Had To Fail

July 15, 2024September 2, 2015 Steve MacDonald

One of our resident NH Education Gurus, Jorge Mesa-Tejada, explains why a lawsuit filed by two towns against their School administrative Unit was doomed from the start; and it had nothing to do with the merit of the case they brought (and the taxpayers still have options…)

GrokTALK! August 29th, 2015

July 15, 2024August 29, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Today on GrokTALK!, Jorge Mesa-Tejada on education, NRA stickers and Hoplophobes with Richard Olson, the upcoming veto override vote on HB603 with Max Abramson, Kimberly Morin from the Summit at Jackson Hole, WY, and senior Writer from the Federalist Stella Morabito.

How The Word ‘American’ Became Problematic

July 15, 2024August 3, 2015 Steve MacDonald

The big news this week was a University of New Hampshire Language Guide that explained what words were problematic in conversation and should be avoided to foster diversity and “inclusiveness.” We journey back to the 1990’s with our Ed expert Jorge Mesa-Tejada to explain when this problem with the word “American” began.

August 1st, 2015 Hour One

July 15, 2024August 1, 2015 Steve MacDonald

This week in hour one we are joined by Ambassador Gregory Slayton (why Scott Walker?), and Jorge Mesa-Tejado (Multi-culti Education Establismentarianism). *Due to the server transition I am unable to post both hours at once, so we will post them as hour one and hour two. You can listen and download the entire two hour … Read more

GrokTALK! Who’s Your Regulatory Daddy!

July 15, 2024June 22, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Jorge Mesa-Tejada is back, this time to give us a quick lesson on the power behind enabling legislation and administrative rules.

GrokTALK! June 20th, 2015

July 15, 2024June 20, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Author James Simpson joins us to discuss Refugee resettlement, Greg Moore calls in on Budgets, Mike Gill reports on local corruption in government and he run for Governor, and we also have George Lambert on unseating Jennifer Horn, and Jorge Mesa-Tejada on understanding enabling legislation and administrative rules.

GrokTALK! May 16th, 2015

July 15, 2024May 16, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Jazz Shaw, David Bozell, Max Abramson, and Jorge Mesa-Tejada join us to talk school budgets, Primaries, Special Elections, Illinois Politics, Secession movements, Email Hoaxes, the Stephanoctopus, and a lot more.

Superintendents v. School Boards

July 15, 2024April 20, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Jorge Mesa-Tejada delivers our education update on what an SAU is (School Administrative Unit) and how Superintendents–the administrative leaders of the administrative units–have seized powers reserved to the School Boards.

GrokTALK! April 18th 2015

July 15, 2024April 18, 2015 Steve MacDonald

This week we are joined by Carly Fiorina; Max Abramson guest-co-hosts as well as updating us on his self-defense case and providing a legislative update; Jorge Mesa-Tejada explains what SAU’s are and discusses their true role and their relevance; Pete Ingemi reports in from the First in the Nation Summit, and Kevin Bloom joins us … Read more

Class Size vs. Student to Teacher Ratios

July 15, 2024March 2, 2015 Steve MacDonald

This months Education update covers the difference between the politically charged term “class size” and another education metric ‘Student to Teacher ‘ratios.

GrokTALK! February 28th, 2015

July 15, 2024March 1, 2015 Steve MacDonald

This week I call into the show from CPAC as Skip and Mike take the reins along with guests Jorge Mesa-Tejada (On education), Rep. Max Abramson (on Criminal justice and defining lethal and non-lethal force–among other issues), and Rep. Josh Moore on who owns the children – parents or educators.