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......

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...

I received an interesting link about candidates for school board in Palatine District 15. Watch for yourself below and you can see why it so hard to get fiscally responsible candidates elected to school boards....

Del. J.B. Jennings said he submitted an elected school board bill today, acting on behalf of the Harford County Delegation and that the delegates were continuing to work together on amendments to other pending legislation. A meeting that went late into the night on Thursday was held between Dels. Je...

Project managers for the renovation of Mt. Lebanon High School advised the school board to get the plan "shovel ready" in the 2009-2010 school year if they hope to take advantage of President-elect Obama's stimulus package for infrastructure work. The package aims to provide funds to improve roads, ...

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neigh......

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neigh......

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neighbor...

Batchelor, a long-time public schools advocate, has renewed his call for transparency on the board, pointing specifically to the budgeting and lobbying process. He is also calling for an investigation into School Board Attorney Frank Kruppenbacher's contract (which OCPS officials......