The irony of the most recent installment of the Board of Education’s continuing contretemps with their elected counterparts in town government is that in any normal context this issue would not stir an eyebrow. At its last meeting before the end of the fiscal year, the school board decided to award nominal (or in some cases nonexistent) raises, and assorted other compensatory perks to administrators and nonunion employees. The perks for top administrators added up to just under $50,000, which looks like pin money next to the $66 million approved for school expenditures by voters this spring....Read More
(Editor’s note: This column was first published in The Bee in the summer of 1999. It was written by Jeff White, a former Bee reporter who died this week at the age of 32 in the fullness of life and success as a journalist working in Europe. His thoughtful comments about the passing of a friend seemed especially appropriate this week, so we have decided to share it again with our readers.)...Read More
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