I had emailed the assembly and suggested that they install a gate as a proactive low cost measure to deter trespass and criminal mischief. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Mayor Grier has repeatedly neglected to be fully transparent about his personal connections and interests to a Pearl Creek charter. As has his uncle, Assemblyman David Guttenberg. They have clearly shown their bias this past year at assembly meetings and in conversations with community members.

Not only did Mayor Grier attend Pearl Creek, but so did his wife and her siblings. His sister-in-law is on the PCSC APC.
Mayor Grier also lives just up the hill from the former Pearl Creek school and clearly intends to have the school available for his own child…

Board Member Maple calls out during closing comments that PCSC had already made their decision to appeal to the state, potentially costing the district 2.8+million dollars before the board even took their vote.

It’s not a great look when a group doesn’t even show up to support and defend their own application.
I hope the media takes note of that in their reporting.

Pure hubris.

Last week at their own presentation there were at least a couple dozen pro PCSC folks in the room.

PCSC APC president was late to the meeting and lurked in the doorway for maybe 15minutes.
There were three other pro charter folks(not APC members) that also showed up late, all left long before the end of the meeting.
Not much of a showing for their own application………

They claim to want to create something new but they literally keep the same name, they want to retain the same building as well as the same previous families.

This is essentially their 4th? application in 8 months. And they are still unprepared.

🔥🔥🔥

Legislators are required by law to attend the special session, if they do not show up the commissioner is supposed to call on the troopers to retrieve them and bring them to session. Dunleavy is asking legislators to break the law, and waste more state money to call in law enforcement.

That’s hilarious

The fact that the governor was trying to get legislation to require charter application acceptance year round suggests that it currently is not required and that the districts policy is sound and permissible.

I don’t think it should even be approved even for 26/27 unless funding from the state dramatically increases. Which with this governor it won’t. It will be far cheaper to litigate…………

They’ve already been given the only reply they need.
They missed the application deadline for 25/26. The end.

While it’s sad to see things closing in the borough it’s also perhaps fair and fiscally responsible. Especially when you look at what the school district has had to cut over the past decade. Closing numerous schools, ending many valuable programs, having to fire staff and increase class sizes.