Despite their enormous operating budgets, school boards rarely receive the attention and oversight they deserve. Perhaps the public is disheartened by the realization that school boards operate under behemoth state bureaucracies that leave little room for local input and control.
But in the next few years our schools will have a good shot at making serious improvements that affect the classroom. While they will continue to be challenged with budget cuts, there will be new opportunities to renegotiate bad union agreements and eliminate wasteful programs in favor of putting resources directly into the classroom.
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I’ve got this problem, with Bruce Whitaker. I know everyone says how good and honorable he is, and he seems that way to me too. But what’s all this about him killing and eating Cletus’ dog? it’s an issue that just doesn’t seem to go away. And when there’s smoke there’s gotta be at least some fire.
No, Cletus ate his own dog and now somebody’s trying to pin this on Bruce!
Well I just want to get to the bottom of this. As so often in these “he-said-she-said” stories, the truth may be somewhere in between.