What Citizens Can Do . . . and Can't
By Deborah Witte
Margie Loyacano was eager to attend her first school board meeting in New Lebanon, Ohio. She wanted to talk to board members about testing in the schools. The dialogue-such as it was-didn't last long. "They didn't want to hear what I had to say," she said. "They only wanted me to hear what they had to say."
Disappointed but not discouraged, she and other parents kept coming back. But nothing seemed to improve. As Loyacano saw it, the board became increasingly less responsive and more ineffective with each passing year. School levies failed repeatedly. School programs, such as art and music, were cut.
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