To the Editor: Common Core Forum for Understanding sounds good… But the impression that the Common Core Forum at the end of March will be “balanced” is misleading. The three confirmed speakers are well known anti-Common Core speakers. None of the invitees from ...
To the Editor: The voters of the Hollis Brookline Cooperative School District met on March 3 and 6 in record turnouts – great for our democratic process. After presentations by the school board and budget committee, and very short discussion, the $5.52M high school expansion and ...
To the Editor: In each of our towns, we pool the costs of our schools. We happen to live within the same town boundaries, so we share together as a community in the cost of educating the children. Taxpayers aren’t charged according to the number of children they send to the school. ...
To the Editor- Brookline and Hollis have an important decision to make on Wednesday, March 26, at what I hope will be our final meeting for the co-op this year. I attended the public hearing for the bond back in February, prepared to say “no, we cannot afford this right ...
To the Editor: As a senior I find it very hard to participate and sit through the extremely long School and Town Meetings – they totally burn us out. The meeting is stacked with teachers and people that benefit from us giving up and leaving. They filibuster and play on emotions to ...
To the Editor: A big thank you to Josey MacMillan for her letter to editor highlighting need to investigate Common Core state standards and hear differing views on the subject. There are many questions that still need to be asked and answered about this very controversial topic and people ...