Monthly Archives: November 2007

Response to Al Siebring’s Article About School Libraries

  Published in the November 23rd, 2007 edition of the Citizen     To the Editor, While it is discouraging to see local pundits wade in on the side of meeting our public school budgets at the expense of equal … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: Open Board Meeting of November 21st, 2007

Principiis obsta…Finem respice Resist the beginning… Consider the end So apparently there is an ‘elephant in the room’ (I shall have to stop wearing horizontal stripes) – and one trustee was so brave that she was willing to slyly refer … Continue reading

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Diary of a Mad Trustee: Open Board Meeting on November 7th, 2007

Principiis obsta…Finem respice Resist the beginning… Consider the end The District Accountability contract appeared last Wednesday and its launch was greeted with the usual bloodless merriment. This document, after all, is the very cornerstone of the district’s collaborative relationship with … Continue reading

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