BREAKING: Providence School Board President Resigns
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Kathleen Crain resigned from her position as President of the Providence School Board Monday evening, a week after a General Assembly decision to strip the board of its authority to sign union contracts.
In a phone interview following the school board meeting, Crain told GoLocalProv that city finances played too much of a role in Mayor Angel Taveras’ decisions regarding education. Crain said she was originally a supporter of the Mayor, but that “money, power and politics” have gotten in the way.
“I don’t think the rhetoric has matched the action,” she said referring to the Mayor.
Crain, who only became President in February, said the system is too broken. She said she could get more done being a member of her child’s parent teacher organization.
“You can only bang you head against a brick wall so many times,” Crain said.
In a message released following the resignation, Mayor Taveras said, “New legislation, which passed unanimously in the Senate, by a supermajority in the House, and was signed into law by the Governor, clearly defines the role of appointed school boards in negotiating labor contracts. Only those elected by taxpayers should be responsible for signing union contracts. Ms. Crain apparently did not agree with this. I accept her resignation and thank her for her service to Providence and it's schoolchildren.”
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Comments:
Buc Kner
10:57pm on Monday, July 11, 2011
good... another one down the drain..keep going Dad aka Angel..they don't get it..THEY ARE APPOINTED NOT ANNOINTED
ken fish
11:23pm on Monday, July 11, 2011
Providence School Board, now more than ever before, is irrelevant and impotent. let's stop this expensive charade and abolish it! Anoint the Mayor!
john paycheck
11:50pm on Monday, July 11, 2011
all school boards and committees need to be eliminated...they spend and spend..
Bob Kumins
7:55am on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Did she resign from the School Board as well? If not, big deal.
Ed Jucation
10:27am on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
You did indeed call it Phil...keep it coming
Charles Drago
11:16am on Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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Negative criticism of Angel Taveras -- especially that originating with friends and political appointees and allies of David Cicilline -- must can be fully and fairly appreciated only in terms of its deep political content.
Go Local Prov, do your job: Do Crain and Cicilline share connective tissue?
erin connole
10:24am on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Don't the rats desert a sinking first? Thank you Ms.Crain! 5 months as President and it will be at least 5 years to clean up your mess! Don't let the door hit you on your way out!
Charles Drago
10:37am on Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Another effort by a David Cicilline-sponsored blame-shifter to place the blame for Cicilline's destruction of Providence public schools onto Angel Taveras.
"erin connole," "Buc Kner," "lOUIS PRIMA" -- more likely than not the same entity with the same mission.
A mission doomed to failure.
We shall never forget: Angel Taveras is to David Cicilline what Barack Obama is to George W. Bush: a gifted, honorable successor trying valiantly to overcome the criminal incompetence and dishonor of his predecessor.