Curt Brown has blog posts about candidates for the Middle School principal, the selection of the new High School principal and a joint meeting of the Select Board and School Committee on May 26th
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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Bill could you please tell us the full agenda for the joint meeting with the school committee? thanks
I have not yet received the agenda. There are several items which are likely to be discussed, the budget, capital needs, etc. Collective bargaining may be discussed in executive session. Are there items that you would like to see on the agenda?
nope just wonderering. when you get one please post it. thanks
Will they have specifics on the line item?
Bill, wish you would get more involved in education promotion.
I am curious what you feel the Select Board members should be doing. They have no influence on the running of the schools who seem to be autonomous. I would think every member of the Select Board is in favor of the best education possible for our children, but aren't their hands tied to some extent? Can't we all preach all we want, but will they (the schools) listen?
Short of agreeing to put an override question before the public which should not be even considered by any member of the Board, how can they specifically help? We do need the Select Board to consider the entire town, and hope the School Committee will consider all the children and not just the administration to the degree they have in the past, at least.
I would hope that our Select Board does not become an extension of the School Committee or the town is apt to be in big trouble. Select Board members need to represent the residents.
Select board members could pay attention more to the school administration and assess the Superintendent's capability too, it is called pressure to improve. This does not mean more money. But a stronger school system and better info to public.
Not their job. They have enough work doing theirs
anon 5:28 Why don't you put more pressure on the schools? I would think another group like that which campaigned for the 2007 override, would be much more effective than Bill could ever be.
And why should the schools listen to the Select Board? They don't have to, and they know it.
If any pressure is to be put on the schools/administration/superintendent, it should and must be done by the School Committee. If the School Committee thinks everything is running a-okay, it is not about to change.
From the looks of things, that is what past, at least, School Committees have felt is the case: everything is fine.
Don't expect or ask the Select Board to do the work that is supposed to be done and is the responsibility of the School Committee to do. If the School Committee can't or won't or is unable to do so, take it up with its members. Don't ask the Select Board to do what you or the School Committee can't or won't do. You put too great an expectation on the Select Board members. Will they be the scapegoat when the schools fail to meet your expectations?
The Select Board works for the residents, ALL of them.
If you work for all the residents, you are leaving parents and kids out...ignoring the school funding and education priority mess.
How are you leaving parents and kids out? And there should be some sort of compromise.
I'm merely saying that it can't and shouldn't be just one segment of the population only that gets the attention and the bid for money, to the detriment and exclusion of others. TM and the Select Board can't function with blinders on, and you know that has happened, although perhaps with reference to Town Meeting, it may be that members only looked at the warrant as they walked in the door.
Bill any agenda for this meeting yet?
Here is the agenda for the joint meeting of the Select Board and School Committee on May 26th. I just want to comment on this agenda which I received via email this afternoon. I am not picking on anyone , I just want to illustrate how egovernment can save us money. As you can see, I have uploaded the PDF document, which was sent as an attachmment to the email, to a web server in order to allow you to view it. The PDF attachment is a copy of a document which was scanned as a picture. The result is that I cannot cut or paste from the document without running it through optical character recognition software, which I have done on occasion but chose not to do with this document. The original document was faxed from the school department to the treasurer's office as you can see by the tag at the top of the page. It is page 2 so it probably had a cover page. I am sure that this document was created as a computer file, probably in MS word. Rather than attach that file to an email and sending it to the Town Hall, it was printed out and faxed. The fax machine printed out another copy which was scanned and attached to an email and sent to me. I uploaded the file to a server and linked to it on the net. So it took at least three and probably more people to post this agenda. There is a better way, egovernment.
I got lost just trying to follow the route!
And how many people got paid to do all this??
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