CASD board, administration thumb noses at community
When answers are needed, stonewalling and hostile behavior hurts everyone
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Ultimately, it comes down to respect.
Tuesday night, we saw one of the more egregious examples of a public body and public school administration showing not just a lack of respect for parents, students and taxpayers, but frankly, utter contempt for those daring to ask about a series of disturbing...
Letter: Freedom, justice, equality
To The Editor,
I continue to ask myself this question, why should African-Americans, Latino-Americans, middle-class Americans and poor Americans serve in the United States Armed Services?
I say this because of what the Tea Party, the Conservatives and the Republicans in the U.S. Congress and in some state legislatures are doing to the American people. For example, disenfranchisement in voting, threatening...
School board has duty to break its silence
Members comfortable with hiding should resign
Folks who are new to the Coatesville Area School District (CASD) may be wondering why the abrupt exit of the superintendent and the athletic director during the first week of school has spawned so much negative speculation: Regrettably, long-term residents have become accustomed to sudden departures shrouded in secrecy.
In 1999, former superintendent...
CASD: It’s time for some answers
Parents, taxpayers deserve facts, not rumors and speculation
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
An old maxim suggests wisdom is “knowing what you don’t know.”
Well, it appears that when it comes to the Coatesville Area School District, we are all wise beyond our years.
Here’s what we do know: CASD Superintendent of Schools Richard Como has resigned/retired effective Sept. 2 and while word of...
Common Core hysteria is testing the limits
While a debate is proper, muddying the waters with lies doesn’t help
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Tuesday night, there’s a big meeting planned at the Kennett Fire Company’s Red Clay Room, to talk about the issues with the proposed Common Core curriculum.
And while there are issues with Common Core, ranging from questions about the nature of the curriculum to who should pay for it, the...
Graystone should not reopen
Multiple failures, lack of accountability should doom charter school
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
As the drama unfolds surrounding Graystone Academy Charter School, there are undoubtedly winners and losers in the process of the charter school having its charter revoked.
The biggest losers, of course, are the parents and students — some 272 — who are being told that the school will continue...
Same-sex marriage is happening. So?
The less time we spend on this, the more we might realize what sort of mess we’re in
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Same sex couples, it would seem, can drive a short distance from Chester County and obtain a marriage license.
At the same time, our state Attorney General is refusing to defend the state’s defense of marriage act — a law that defines marriage as being between a man and a...
Milne Op/Ed: Kane must uphold her legal duties
Attorney General can’t decide which laws to enforce and defend, she must defend all
By Duane D. Milne, Special to The Times
State Rep. Duane Milne
Pennsylvania State Attorney General Kathleen Kane has apparently decided to approach her elected post as if it was one of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
Kane is now selectively choosing which duly...
