Dick Batchelor, an Orlando business consultant, said his counsel reports that just might be the case. Not only does closing the schools breaks a promise the district made to voters in 2002, but it's likely illegal, as well. Batchelor was......

UPDATE: Here is the original sales tax list. You can find the schools on the list for closure here. Batchelor was an architect of the 2002 campaign to raise the sales tax by a half-penny to renovate campuses. Many of......

A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...

IIRC, there is an exchange about that in "Noises Off," the backstage, onstage, about stage, stage play.It is a cardinal sin for a director, demeaning to the actors, and betraying his own inability to articulate his vision (assuming, of course, he has a competent cast... with 8th graders, say, ya may...

Tampa mom accused of biting, beating teen son: An unidentified woman from Tampa, Florida has been arrested for beating her 13-year-old son. Police alleged that the woman began beating the boy because she believed that the boy stole her boyfriend’s iPod. She allegedly bit the boy repeatedly and...

First two items from Seattle, our neighbor to the north.   A lawsuit has been filed challenging the proposed Seattle school closures, alleging "that closures will unfairly affect a large percentage of poor children and students of color."  The Seattle activists are one he...

Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is one part of a multimedia response to the YAB Question of the Week, a new feature we've been trying out on the Ypulse YouTube channel sponsored by Flip. This week I asked our members, who range in age from 14 to 23, how the recession has affected them and h...

Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXRoads have produced their 8th Annual Source of Hire Study (PDF). It’s a worthwhile read that gives insight into the activities and mindsets of recruiters. During the month of January 2009, we invited our contacts in more than 200 large (5000+ employees),...

Hi Monday. MARCH ALREADY? Get serious. We had a long, busy and exhausting weekend. SO. TIRING. I worked my butt off on the YOU-ARE-AWESOME posters. My eyes are going buggy. Dan finished all the wall painting I started while he was away. It took him less than half the time to do three times as much p...

Should the student member on the Harford County Board of Education have a vote? Students say yes, but some adult board members say no, citing students’ lack of maturity and experience. That dismissive description hardly fits the Harford County Public School students who have been advocating for th...