SEE YOU IN COURT! – October 2014
CABE Journal October 2014 Prissy Principal was pleased finally to get the promotion she had been seeking for several years. As an assistant principal, she was infamous for being a neat freak, and Mr....
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SEE YOU IN COURT! – November 2014
CABE Journal November 2014 The other members of the Nutmeg Board of Education were surprised when Ernie Entrepreneur was elected to serve as its newest member. Though respected in Nutmeg, Ernie was...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – December 2014
CABE Journal December 2014 The meetings of the Nutmeg Board of Education have been way too long. They always get off to a slow start because typically the first hour or more is devoted to Public...
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SEE YOU IN COURT! – January 2015
CABE Journal January 2015 Mayor Megillah, long-serving Mayor of Nutmeg, is in a perpetual reelection campaign, and his latest gambit to pander to special interests involves a proposal to install lights...
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Making Room for Failure in Order to Achieve Success
THE PROFESSIONAL GOVERNANCE BOARD CABE Journal January 2015 Effective governance boards continually strive for success. High achieving boards identify, invest in, celebrate and reward success, seeking...
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SEE YOU IN COURT! – February 2015
CABE Journal February 2015 After the trauma he suffered during the last budget season, Mr. Chairperson vowed that this year would be different. “The Nutmeg Board of Education is an independent agent,...
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SEE YOU IN COURT! – March 2015
CABE Journal March 2015 The Residents Against New Taxes (RANT) launched a new high tech online campaign this year to recruit new members in Nutmeg. RANT members attend every meeting of the Nutmeg Board...
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SEE YOU IN COURT! – April 2015
CABE Journal April 2015 The almost-interminable winter was finally over, and Peter Principal saw a significant uptick in the number of suspensions for offenses ranging from horseplay to assault. To...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – May 2015
Seymour Dollars, the irascible Chairperson of the Nutmeg Board of Finance, gave the Board of Education a very hard time throughout the entire budget process this year. He questioned the Board down to...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – June 2015
Last year, Mal Content ran for the Nutmeg Board of Education on a platform of constituent service, with advertisements promising, “Tell me your problems, and I will find you solutions.” Despite Mal’s...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – July/August 2015
Mr. Superintendent couldn’t believe that it is already again time for negotiations with the Nutmeg Union of Teachers (NUTS). However, when Mr. Superintendent told Mr. Chairman that teacher...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – September 2015
The members of the Nutmeg Board of Education are a conscientious group, and they want to know everything about the operation of the Nutmeg Public Schools. For his part, Mr. Superintendent has tried to...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – October 2015
Bob Bombast, veteran member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, has been vocal in his opposition to state testing based on the Common Core State Standards. When Mr. Superintendent reported last month on...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – November 2015
Negotiations with the Nutmeg Union of Teachers (NUTS) went better than usual this year. NUTS did not waste a lot of time trying to usurp management rights, and it focused instead on the...
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With the holiday season in full swing, the Nutmeg Board of Education has been having difficulty getting a quorum to attend its meetings. The meeting last week was delayed by forty-five minutes as the...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – January 2016
At the time, it seemed like a good idea. The Nutmeg Public Schools have long cherished its friendship with its sister city of Nutmeg, Belgium, and after years of discussion and months of planning,...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – February 2016
Mr. Superintendent knew that his news for the Nutmeg Board of Education would cause a stir – the Nutmeg Public Schools were looking at a deficit for 2015-2016 of around $1,000,000. While the warm...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – March 2016
Now that the budget for next year was finally completed and submitted to the Town, the Nutmeg Board of Education turned its attention to the current year’s budget. Board member Red Cent had been...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – April 2016
The Nutmeg Board of Education has not expelled a student for over two years. Not because Nutmeg students are so compliant, however, but rather because the Board appointed a hearing officer two years...
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SEE YOU IN COURT – May 2016
Expenditures under the 2015-2016 budget have been a mixed bag in Nutmeg. The fuel oil account and the snow removal overtime account are both underexpended, given the mild winter. However, special...
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