The James Logan Courier

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Director of Parent and Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a presentation from representatives of a group of parents, teachers, classified employees, administrators and business/community leaders advocating for the District to make another attempt to pass a parcel tax, to relieve some of the budget pressures caused by the state’s ongoing financial crisis.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Director of Parent & Community Relations

UNION CITY (Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2011) – Kevin Harper, a member of the New Haven Unified School District Board of Education for the past seven years, is moving out of the District and will resign his position, effective at the end of the calendar year, he announced at the Board meeting Tuesday night.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

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