Category: Community
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Does Chester Need Its Own Business & Career Resource Center?
I’m interested in your thoughts on building a business & career resource center in Chester that helps the community by offering needed services affordably while providing a workforce development opportunity for challenged workers.
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Springfield Cameras Violate Privacy
Like any intrusive technology, the benefits of deploying public video cameras must be balanced against the costs and dangers. Because we can doesn’t mean we should. The unnecessary use of surveillance needs to stop.
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Assessing ESEA Flexibility
I encourage a review of the ESEA Flexibility proposal. I was very interested in the suggestions for “Consultation” and this proposal should be great motivation for community and stakeholder discussion. There is good and bad in this proposal. It essentially guts NCLB and replaces it with state-level approaches, though generally…
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Overcoming a Weakness…Engaging with Our Community
One possible benefit of having been appointed is not having to campaign for my position on the school board, but in fact, I consider this a weakness. While campaigning can be tiresome and time-consuming, I feel a real loss for not having had the opportunity to meet more members of…
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PSA: Workshop on Cyberbullying, January 7th
I would be derelict in my duty as a former co-president if I did not pass this on. I encourage you to share this with your friends across the community and around the area, as well. We are truly luck to have the opportunity for events such as these each…
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