[Local-Maine-Schools] "...allow state officials to concentrate on the classrooms ...with available resources"

[Brian Hubbell]

Here's something that gets rhetorically more revealing the closer you read it:

>We need to move forward with a required reorganization, and we should
>stick to the 2,500-pupil target. That will guarantee the necessary
>savings and allow state officials to concentrate on the classrooms
>across the state with available resources.

>Let's stand up for the children this time and not bow to the special
>interests that want to retain positions and authority. This is about
>kid power for the future, not adult power for the >present.

--James Carignan, Harpswell
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/215058-3/LetterstotheEditor/Stand_up_for_the_children/

Apparently Carignan (who chairs the State Board of Education) and the
Governor scrambled their eggs together on Saturday morning because in
his Saturday morning radio address, the Governor warned that "special
interests who are determined to maintain the status quo and block the
path forward are feverishly working the halls of the State House."

--[Governor asks citizen support as final push begins]
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/06/02/governor_asks_citizen_support_as_final_push_begins/

Would that it were so.  These two need to be reminded that there is
nothing more special about the interests of an elected school board
than those of a state-appointed official or that of the Governor
himself.