This week the Exeter School Board met to discuss options for reducing the budget for next year. One of the options the are pursuing is making the Para-professionals take an additional 30 minutes out of their workday. Being force to take an addition 30 minutes off a day may not seem like much, … Continue reading →
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The NH Union Leader Is Wrong, We Need Teachers Not Volunteers In Our Classrooms
By Matt Murray on January 9, 2013 in
Tags: education, New Hampshire Union Leader, NH Labor News, public schools, Union
Once again the ultra-conservative editors at the NH Union Leader have completely missed the mark. Today they published an editorial on the idea to use “volunteers” to oversee virtual classrooms. This ridiculous idea came from Mayor Gatas as a way to expand charter schools and reduce the cost of education in Manchester. “Mayor Ted Gatsas [...]
Why Pay for What We Don’t Use
By Gary Patton on February 16, 2011 in
Tags: House Bill 340, private schools, property tax abatements, public schools
My conservative Republican friend Crawford Notch was strutting down the street pleased as he could be with himself. Crawford was recently elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was very proud of his accomplishment. I had reason to be much less pleased with him than he was with himself. “Crawford,” I said to [...]
9 Comments: Merit Pay for Teachers
I caught part of Laura Knoy’s show on NHPR today, discussing merit pay in the public schools. Obama has endorsed the idea. There have been a few public school teachers in my family. They all worked here in New Hampshire; Obama’s experience in Chicago was undoubtedly different. I come to a different conclusion than the [...]