Category Archives: Education
Donna Green Invokes Education Administrative Rule 204:01
There are laws, and then there are administrative rules with the force of law. Some feel that administrative rules, which are by their nature established by bureaucrats, have no moral authority because they are not voted on by elected representatives. … Continue reading
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Tagged Administrative rules, Timberlane Regional School District
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Trump Education Secretary Pressured to Keep Obama ‘Rape Culture’ Guidelines
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has driven the Left crazy in recent weeks, by reining in some of the worst excesses of President Obama’s Department of Education (DOE). On Wednesday, the attorneys general of 19 states and the District of Columbia … Continue reading
Chris Sununu Signs SB 44 Prohibiting NH from Mandating Common Core Standards
Concord, NH – Today, Governor Sununu signed into law SB 44, prohibiting the state from mandating local towns and school board to implement the Common Core academic standards. After the signing Senator Kevin Avard (R-Nashua), prime sponsor of the bill, issued … Continue reading
Donna Green [updated]: Behind the Scenes of Policy Committee – Metzler Meddles
This is an updated version of this post. It is my deep seated conviction that administrators should not have voting rights on school board standing committees in order to ensure that your elected officials are in charge of their own … Continue reading
School choice: Next steps for NH
We have commended the governor and Legislature for taking a small but important step toward school choice. The “Croydon Bill” gives local school boards explicit authority to enter into tuition agreements with nearby private schools, without asking state bureaucrats for … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Bill, Education Choice, School Choice
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Memorials promote ‘white heterosexual male supremacy,’ profs claim
Public museums and memorials serve our nation’s “foundational commitments to white heterosexual male supremacy,” according to two Texas A&M University professors. Tasha N. Dubriwny and Kristan Poirot, both of whom teach Women’s Studies at TAMU, advanced the claim in a July 12 article in … Continue reading
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Tagged Campus Reform, heterosexual, male, Memorials, Monumnets, supremacy, white
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Donna Green: Behind the Scenes of Policy Committee
As the assigned school board head of Timberlane’s Policy Standing Committee, I have been trying to hold summer meetings. Policy formation is one of the principal duties of the School Board, yet the established schedule of Policy Committee meetings is … Continue reading
Posted in Donna Green, Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Committees, Policy, SAU 55, Timberlane
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When Crimes Happen at School, N.H. Law Doesn’t Require Parental Notification
Laurie Laizure of Manchester likes to think she’s the kind of parent who’s engaged in what’s happening at her kids’ schools. Which is why she was so surprised to learn, when scrolling through Facebook last month, about a sexual assault that … Continue reading
Donna Green: Separating the Good Guys from the Bad
There is a time in the life of every elected official when their vote says it all. I plan to introduce this policy about Right to Know requests to Timberlane’s Policy Committee and the Timberlane Regional School Board. It is … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 
‘Disparaging comments’ outlawed at Illinois college
Students at Carl Sandburg College could now be subject to “disciplinary proceedings” for the use of “offensive language” or “hate speech.” According to the Illinois community college’s Student Code of Conduct, administrators “may initiate disciplinary proceedings against” a student who “is … Continue reading →