In a recent blog post and letter to the editor of The Lakeville Journal, I stated that the new Region 1 administrators’ contracts have “already been signed and ratified.” That statement is incorrect. By a vote of 4-2, the general terms of the new contracts were approved by the Board of Education in March...
Clarification: Miles is now bellowing that the contracts have not been signed. Correct. The new contracts themselves haven’t been signed but the resolution to issue those contracts was. It was approved 4-2 and endorsed by the BOE at a March 28 special meeting on unanimous recommendation from the All Boards Committee (ABC). For those...
Just as a clown’s pancake make-up eventually wilts under the heat to reveal a sad sack on the verge of a breakdown, so too has the boss of our local radio station been unmasked as an emperor whose clothes (and nerves) are fraying. Veteran broadcaster Marshall Miles, who presides over the self-described “smallest NPR...
What is more contemptible? Being a bully or pretending to play the role of victim? In the case of Marshall Miles, president of Sharon’s NPR affiliate, you can have your cake and pig out on it, too. Miles is in high dudgeon over ethical allegations lodged against him by Diane Goncalves, an assistant superintendent...
You know a school district has a problem when an outside party conducts a fair review that reveals deep divisions in the high school and then the community at-large is equally divided over the report itself. After reading Ruth Epstein’s article this morning on last night’s citizen meeting in Falls Village, I was struck...
I have in my hot little hands the report (PDF – Straight Talk) that The Region 1 Board of Education commissioned attorney Jeffrey Pingpank to conduct regarding the sudden departure of the two top administrators at Housatonic Valley High School just before the start of school in September. And I’ve listened to Friday’s special board...
I attended yesterday’s Region One Board of Education meeting because, thankfully, it was scheduled at a time when I could get there. Those in attendance implored the Board of Education to dig deep in its investigation into why the two top administrators at Housatonic Valley Regional High School resigned within a week of each...
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