My Goal in Blogging

I started this blog in May of 2008, shortly after my election to the School Committee, because I believed it was very important to both provide the community with an opportunity to share their thoughts with me about our schools and to provide me with an opportunity for me to ask questions and share my thoughts and reasoning. I have found the conversation generated on my blog to be extremely helpful to me in learning community views on many issues. I appreciate the many people who have taken the time to share their views. I believe it is critical to the quality of our public schools to have a public discussion of our community priorities, concerns and aspirations.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Small-town school board puts opt-out stamp on state ed reform

Note: Given all the interest that the Amherst School Committee's decision to seek information on options regarding Union 26 has generated, I decided to post the link to the story that really started it all -- which appeared in March in the Gazette. As you can read in this story, the change in the law was a direct result of action on the part of the Chair of the Shutesbury School Committee, and in fact occurred because Shutesbury was interested in studying its options to get out of Union 28. I am surprised that there wasn't considerable turmoil about the School Committee in Shutesbury's interest in studying this issue, JUST LIKE THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE IN AMHERST.

One more note -- I'm now going to be posting links to stories in the Gazette, and if you click on the link, you will get to the full story. The Gazette has moved to make their stories on education (that might be of interest to my readers) available without a subscription. Please let me know if you have problems accessing the full story (now or at any time) and I will then check into that.


Hampshire Gazette
By BEN STORROW
Thursday, March 11, 2010

http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/03/11/small-town-school-board-puts-opt-out-stamp-state-ed-reform.
Posted by Catherine A. Sanderson at 2:14 PM

2 comments:

Barbara said...

Catherine:

I just tried to read the article about Shutesbury and its telling me that I need a subscription.

May 21, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Catherine A. Sanderson said...

Sorry - I worried this might happen, since this is an old article (e.g., March). I will try to have it up within the hour -- I've notified the Gazette. I definitely think it is worth reading--I thought about posting it at the time, but it was the week Alberto Rodriguez left and there were so many articles/comments that I thought it would get buried.

May 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM

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