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Members of the Plumas Charter School board and administration were understandably surprised in December when they received a Notice to Remedy outlining “issues of concern” from Glenn Harris, superintendent of the Plumas County Office of Education and Plumas Unified School District. They were surprised because Harris is technically a member of their board.
As such, didn’t Harris have an obligation to say something, rather than spring a notice on the school? Yes, say attorneys we have spoken to. Harris has a “major conflict of loyalty” said one. According to PCS’s charter, the superintendent or his designee must serve on the board. Because of the inherent conflict, most districts designate a lower-level administrator to serve on the charter school boards they oversee, explained an attorney who specializes in charter schools.
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl.
Seriously.
I’m probably the only guy in the Nielson rating’s middle-aged-man demographic who missed it.
In fact, I haven’t watched a live sporting event on TV since I moved here in March of last year.
And it’s been a little agonizing for a life-long television junkie like myself.
Every month an event of monstrous proportions takes place in Plumas County. It requires epic fortitude. It bruises the body, numbs the mind and crushes the soul. Participants dread it. It takes days, even weeks to recover. We are, of course, talking about the School Board Meeting.
The agenda can stretch to four or five pages. The packet is so large you could club a small animal to death with it. The meeting can plod on for five or six hours.
Margaret Elysia Garcia
Every time I hear about school closures in Indian Valley I want to buy folks in Sacramento topographical maps of Plumas County. Yes, we have a tiny county of 20,000 people. Yes, it seems ridiculous that a small geographical area should have so many schools but geez, guys, a simple topographical map would indicate why this is so. Our smallness is only as the crow flies, not drives.
Now that the Republican candidates are down two people, Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry, the stakes are even higher.
Among the four remaining candidates, the question buzzing about is what excites college age youth to support Texas Congressman Ron Paul?
When asked this question at the Myrtle Beach debate by Fox News political correspondent Bret Baier, Paul smiled and said, “I’m an old man with young ideas.”
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