Jea Street – Delaware Liberal

School Board Elections, Redux

By cassandra_m May 7, 201320 Comments

Yesterday's NJ had a remarkable article from Matthew Albright that purports to take a look at the usually out-of-sight school board elections and the possibility of influence by outside interests on the eventual winners. It is remarkable, because it singles out teacher's unions as the outside interests being served by the inattention of voters to these elections. There isn't even a fig leaf of a "both sides do it" argument -- in large part because this article lets Jea Street pontificate about how teacher's unions are running the board for school board elections:

All Drama, No KIDS

By cassandra_m May 12, 20115 Comments

That's how I characterized the recent brouhahas of the Christina School Board with their RTT fiascos in correspondence with Pandora. Now we have the next act of the Christina School District All Drama, no KIDS extravaganza as Councilman Jea Street weighs in to call for the State to take over the District.