March 25, 2016 – Editorial from The Aegis
Maybe a slap on the wrist would have been a better, more cost effective approach
Way back in the mid-1970s, the late W. Miles Hanna, who was then president of the Harford County Board of Education, lamented that the state government and its education department had co-opted so many local education prerogatives, about the only power the local school boards had left was the naming of new schools.
Maybe so, but the current Harford County Board of Education has found a way to otherwise occupy itself that we suspect wouldn’t have happened in the Hanna era, or many others. It has hired a lawyer to determine if some unnamed board members violated the Maryland Open Meetings Act by caucusing privately in a member or members’ homes to discuss board business. Continue reading on the BaltimoreSun.com: http://ow.ly/100uVs.
