Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Wed., Sept. 2, 2009

State: a budget, which the governor won't sign but which she will use line-item veto upon. This decision will create a good deal of comment, as it is somewhat unusual.

Southington: a moratorium is certainly in order, given the controversy and the situation in Berlin. But the idea, which cannot be executed until October and comments are received, cannot apply to a business which already has a permit, can it?

Meriden: while it's just fine that the city's schools have managed to keep standardized test scores enough ahead of the "rising horizons" to avoid some sort of takeover by some level of government which presumably has the money and talent to do better (an open question, of course), this whole "No Child Left Behind" process continues to treat the wrong problems and focus on numbers rather than on individuals.

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