“The recent efforts by the Woodstock Board of Education to enact legislation to change the Academy’s Board structure without a public hearing fall short of these standards.�
Once again, Mr. Alberts has lied. Will the public call him on this?
The truth of the matter is that Alberts knew of the Breen initiative as soon as it was delivered to the legislature. With knowledge of its existence, he chose to do nothing until the deadline for public hearing had passed. He could have easily approached the Education Committee co-chairs and asked for a public hearing so that the issues could be debated by both sides. He knew if he did nothing, there would then be no public hearing on the matter and he could claim “lack of transparency� as his reason for opposition. He could then avoid taking a public position as to the substance of the Breen memo, which is exactly what he has done. He has yet to state that “he� opposes the recommendations that Breen put forth. He has carefully chosen his words in the above letter and in other public venues so as to avoid stating that he opposed the effort to achieve equity between the Academy and K-8 systems. His statement on the radio was that “those who opposed� the change in Woodstock Academy governance could rest easy as the deadline for reporting bills out of committee passed yesterday. Query: Did Alberts include himself in that group? And now, he is saying that the BOE acted to prevent a public hearing. This is an outright lie!
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