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Manchester School Board
Manchester Young Democrats Push School Transgender Policy, Urge Outsiders to Contact School Board
The Manchester Young Democrats have sent an email urging their supporters to contact the Manchester Board of School Committee to support a controversial policy it adopted on January 25, 2021, about transgendered students.
Help Protect Female Students in Manchester
The Manchester Board of School Committee is reconvening on Monday, February 8 to reconsider its transgender policy. The committee recently voted for a policy that allows male students that claim to have a female gender identity to access female bathrooms and locker rooms and compete in female sports.
Jim O’Connell Attacks Parents Concerned Over School Transgender Student Policy
At-Large Manchester School Board member Jim O’Connell, a Democrat, is lashing out and lying to parents about a policy the board recently adopted on transgender students.
Manchester School Board to Revisit Controversial Policy on Transgender Students
A controversial policy that bars school officials from informing parents that their children identify as transgendered in school and mandates access to the bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams the student “identifies with” will be back before the Board of School Committee at its meeting on February 8th.
Proposed Manchester School Transgender Policy Opens Bathrooms, Locker Rooms and Sports to the Opposite Sex, Keeps Parents in the Dark
The Manchester Board of School Committee will take up a proposed policy on transgender students at its meeting on Monday, January 25, 2021. (Starts on page 26 of the agenda.) On a 4 to 1 vote, the policy was approved by the board’s Committee on Policy on January 12, 2021.
Manchester School Board Gives Teachers Union “Bonus Day” Over Contract Dispute
Just before the end of the November 9, 2020 meeting of the Manchester Board of School Committee, Mayor Joyce Craig advised the board it needed to go into non-public session. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss an issue with the recently settled contract with the Manchester Education Association.
Principals Trash Manchester School Superintendent, or Did They?
On September 10, 2020, Teamsters Local 633 attorney William R. Cahill, Jr. submitted a “correspondence” from the Association of Manchester Principals (AMP) to Manchester school Superintendent Dr. John Goldhardt. While the letter largely addressed a laundry list of complaints regarding the district’s plan to return to school amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, along with several reasons … Read more
Are Manchester, NH Schools a Bastion of Racism?
Over the past several weeks, there have been multiple articles I could have written about things happening at Manchester City Hall or on Hecker Street (HQ for the Manchester School District). However, the reasons I stepped down from my seat on the Board of School Committee, demands of family and business, have prevented me from … Read more
Manchester School Board Isn’t Addressing the Achievement Gap
The Manchester Board of School Committee’s resolution to address systemic and institutional racism does not go far enough. In fact, it doesn’t address one of the most important factors plaguing the school district- -illiteracy.
Manchester Ward 2 School Board Member David Scannell Broke the Law – is a Double Standard Developing?
The “I didn’t know” defense? “There isn’t a member of this board that does not know that when a legal action is threatened against the board it is a confidential matter,” said Girard. “And the leaking of that letter divulged the very information I was accused of divulging.” A motion to have school district attorneys investigate … Read more
Press Release: The School District Governance Association of NH: 1st Amendment Rights and the Manchester School Board
Press Release: 12/6/2018
Contact: Skip Murphy ( skipm@metrocast.net)
School District Governance Association of New Hampshire
First Amendment Rights in School District Governance
The SDGA holds that the preexisting Rights enumerated in the First Amendment are sacrosanct and must never be infringed upon even in difficult situations such as we see taking place with the Manchester School Board (“MSB”). We speak of MSB members castigating another member for using the District’s email system in factually correcting an 18 year old student’s Op-ed that criticized the current teacher contract negotiations that was published both the student newspaper and an outside media website.
We side with the First Amendment in all cases – it is what distinguishes America from almost all other nations in allowing the free flow of ideas without Government coercion. It either holds true in all cases or merely becomes a privilege doled out by those in power – which the MSB members seemingly are doing. Thus, we speak out in defense of Rachel Phelan’s Right to Free Speech in her right to criticize the MSB’s efforts during this contract negotiation.
Similarly, we also speak out in defense of Rich Girard’s
Yes, Steve, the Manchester Democrats really do hate Rich Girard AND lawyer Karen Hewes invokes the Streisand Effect
MANCHESTER — An attorney representing a Manchester High School Central senior has sent a letter to At Large school board member Rich Girard, requesting he stop discussing her publicly or during meetings or face legal action, after he contacted her through a district-operated student email account regarding an opinion piece she authored in a student newspaper. The student, Rachel Phelan, 18, wrote an editorial in the Sept. 28 edition of “The Little Green,” Central’s student newspaper, urging support for city teachers currently working without a contract.
And said attorney is identified later on in the article as Karen Hewes of EdLaw New England in Bedford. Who accuses Girard of violating FERPA, the Federal law that protect students’ Personal Indentifiable Information (“PII”) as Grokster Ann Marie talked about here. Yet, I dryly note that her letter to Girard to stop talking about Rachel Phelan was leaked to the UL (do ya really think it was Rich that would have done that?). Naw, this boob of an attorney
Sidenote: Wanna make a bet I’ll hear about that as either being sexual harrassment or politically incorrectly for simply using a common American English slang phrase? First Amendment, baby – just like Rachel Phelan “outed” herself as an adult, so has this nitwit.
not is just trying to threaten Rick Girard – she also outed her client to everyone in NH. Great job, just a great job. Which brings up the case – for fee or pro bono? Truth or self-aggrandizment? Or just being self-unaware of invoking the Streisand Effect? OK, to recap (thank you, Steve):
To The Manchester School Board – ‘You know..You’re Breaking The Law, Right?’
I wrote about this back on July 9th. The Manchester School board voted to cut transportation funding as part of a deal to find the cash to put teachers back on the payroll. At the end of the day, cuts made to public school jobs were reinstated at the expense of school choice and charter … Read more
Manchester School District – Is this an Anti-School Choice Move?
Despite earlier promises the Manchester School district may now be refusing to bus charter school kids based on the argument that it will cost $82,000.00 in transportation costs to do so. From what I’ve been told so far, the original plan was to have them ride on the existing Catholic school bus routes, which would … Read more