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Holiday Charter School Laundry Jeff replied:
"Secondly, you seem to be essentially saying that one particular view of Charter Schools is the only one allowed on the school committee because that is the only view that serves the ...
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junkman -
Thu, Dec 3, 2009, 12:30 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry Thanks for the info Jeff. I am though, still on the fence. Your points seem very clear. The charter school thing is a whole different animal and seems it may take alot of selling for the townspeople t...
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Laura -
Thu, Dec 3, 2009, 8:47 A
Holiday Charter School Laundry Just to let people know, I wrote a letter in support of the Charter School, spoke in favor of the school at the hearing the other day and occasionally talk to the "founders" of the school. I am not in...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry Mike,
Thank you for your very clear outline.
I think the main questions we need to ask ourselves are:
Do you believe that parents should have the freedom to select a public school that b...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry "You can't serve on two competing boards. It just doesn't work."
Is anyone on the School Committee also on the board of this Discovery School? I didn't think that was the case ...
Holiday Charter School Laundry WOW!!! What if the cat was already out of the bag??? Just something to think about.
Robert M.Hughes Academy Charter School at the corner of School and Union streets in Springfield.
Fred All...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry After reading the paper and realizing that this new charter school would not be required to submit annual funding requests to the school committee, I do see a bit of a conflict. You can't serve on tw...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry junkman -
I agree that funding is a problem, but I also agree with PaulK that "this should be part of a larger debate about how to best finance public education in general". It's not as if public s...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry Jeff,
I agree with what you have posted. But I recognize why there is some concern among residence regarding applying best efforts to an elected position and avoiding potential conflict while serv...
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stash -
Mon, Nov 30, 2009, 10:53 A
Holiday Charter School Laundry Edwina and Stash:
Edwina writes:
First. Will the Charter School be for the entire population of school children in Montague?
Yes, although it depends what you mean by "entire population." Any...
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Edwina -
Mon, Nov 30, 2009, 5:48 A
Holiday Charter School Laundry My second question was worded wrong and had a typo. Here it is again.
First. Will the Charter School be for the entire population of school children in Montague?
Second: Will the Charter Schoo...
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Edwina -
Mon, Nov 30, 2009, 5:46 A
Holiday Charter School Laundry I have two questions.
First. Will the Charter School be for the entire population of school children in Montague?
Second: Will it address the education of special education?
PaulK -
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 11:40 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry And, by the way, it is no longer even a matter for discussion whether or not charter schools added to the mix of educational choices are an improvement. Time has proven charter schools a valuable add...
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PaulK -
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 11:33 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry JeffS, keep on keepin' on! I love the part where Ms. Phillips asks the SC for a "legal/ethical clarification regarding participation in the discussion (of the charter school 'issue') by those SC memb...
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junkman -
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 10:38 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry Mike N,
The question I think is about tax money. People can only be squeezed so much before the money stops. It seems as though some of the discussion when it comes to money is landed on deaf ears ...
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stash -
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 10:12 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry stash -
I think you're being very short-sighted with this (along with pugnacious, but what else is new?). Most of the people involved with trying to set up the Discovery School are NOT school commi...
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stash -
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 7:21 P
Holiday Charter School Laundry Thanx for the info Jeff.... Just a question for you.. Why is the Sch. Comm. looking at MORE ways to loose the town money??????? Are you not elected to serve the folks that put you in office?? It's bad...
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Holiday Charter School Laundry I have been urged not to air dirty laundry on this corkboard but this particular laundry was on television so what the heck.
To the Chair and Vice Chair of the GMRSD School Committee:
Last [Tu...
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Health Care Politics: The 85% There have been a number of interesting posts on this corkboard about the health care issue, particularly the role of the market as opposed to government in providing health care for all at a cost tha...
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Biomass Docs Recent reports from the "City" of Greenfield on the proposed biomass plant. I'll post others that are sent to me as long as they are sane.
http://www.montaguema.net/files.cfm?gpt=31&g=208
A Dozen Dead Oceans Sittin' down here at the Lady K listneing to Hard Rain, when Bob Dylan was the darling of the folkies, ex-communists and writers from Sing Out Magazine (that is, before "get sick get well hang around ...
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H1N1 Articles: Lots of "Gaps" Sort of like JFK's "missile gap" or George C Scott's "mine shaft Gap" in Dr Strangelove? We also seem to have a "Vitamin D gap."
US has vaccine credibility gap
New York Times / October 26, 2009
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