Concord Democrats would love to have some of that Chicagoland gun-control. While they wait, they already have something else very ‘Chicago.’ An inability or unwillingness to protect students from sexual predators in their school system.
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Op-Ed: Our Turn: In Franklin, school board proposal is a budget buster
By Kathy Lauer-Rago, Paul Trudel, and George J. Dzjuna Fellow taxpayers and citizens of Franklin: Once again, budget season is upon us in the city of Franklin. We, the members of the city’s finance committee, wanted you to be well informed on where our budget stands this year. The school board recently presented the city … Read more
Why is The Nashua School District Network Blocking GraniteGrok.com?
We’ve been having some fun with the Nashua School District and the clown car they call their Board of Education. And maybe that’s why they’ve banned us. According to their network, it’s because we might be a blog or a forum. Okay, so why aren’t any of these other Blogs blocked as well?
What is the Superintendent in Laconia Hiding?
I’ve been searching for information on the mental health data collected and shared on students in the Laconia School District. Accessing this information has become challenging, given the responses by the current Superintendent in the district, Brendan Minnihan. One thing is clear from the information that has been provided, mental health data on the students is … Read more
New Conflict of Interest Policy for New Hampshire School Board Members
Press Release For Immediate Release Concord, NH November 20, 2018, New Conflict of Interest Policy for School Board Members The School District Governance Association of New Hampshire is pleased to announce that it has created a Conflict of Interest model policy for school boards. The policy directly prohibits hiring or contracting with relatives of the … Read more
One Year Later – A Lack of H.O.P.E. In Manchester Schools
Finally, the Manchester School Committee’s “secret” meeting about secret dealings regarding spending on a program, not supervised or approved by the Committee, hit the public.
Once again it took a pry bar for Manchester taxpayers to see where funding for another program, which looks suspiciously like the special interest of a single employee of the school, comes from.
The “pry bar” in this respect was a group of dedicated elected officials on the school committee who cling to the public’s right to know.
Broward Student Lays Out Devastating Case Against School Board For Neglecting School Safety
The Daily Wire headline says it all. A student dug into the weeds, did the legwork and presented evidence that the district had a lot of money for school safety but spent little, while also favoring plans and policies that actually put student lives at risk.
[Kenneth] Preston confronted the school board two weeks ago and gave his account of what he’d learned to The Hill. In his initial findings, Preston said that he believed that since 2014, the school has only spent around 5% of the over $100 million available to it specifically for school safety. In his new report, he details ways that the failure to invest in school safety may have led to the deaths of some of the students in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting.
Hide and Go Seek
The editorial in this morning’s Union Leader visits two problems we’ve had in spades around here of late. A public body unwilling to part with public information and School superintendents. What’s worse than a public body denying access to an investigator’s report that was paid for with taxpayer money? Hiring a lawyer to fight the … Read more