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Senator criticizes conduct at education committee hearing, questions DOE leadership
Summary
A senator on the Senate floor said principals mobilized by complex area superintendents booed a community member and committee members during an education committee hearing, raising concerns about leadership, decorum, and the chain of command within the Department of Education.
On a point of personal privilege on the Senate floor, a senator criticized conduct at a recent Senate education committee hearing and urged scrutiny of Department of Education leadership.
The senator said the committee heard 14 measures and that ‘‘nearly 100 DOE administrators, primarily school principals, lined the corridors to oppose that single bill’’ to repeal the complex area superintendent structure. She said 11 individuals submitted testimony in support but that principals in attendance "cheer[ed] their own testifiers, booed the lone community…
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