Carl Ladd: Education Commissioner Edelblut has put a bounty on educator’s backs

Last week, Commissioner Frank Edelblut announced a Department of Education effort to encourage the public to inform on public educators and, hand-in-hand with that announcement, an extremist group offered bounties to those who instigate investigations that may lead to the discipline and possible loss of professional credentials of teachers and administrators across the state.

The New Hampshire School Administrators Association calls on Gov. Chris Sununu to denounce the bounties placed on public school educators by an extremist group fomented by the destructive efforts of Frank Edelblut, whom the governor has twice appointed to be New Hampshire’s commissioner of education. Commissioner Edelblut, instead of working with educators who are struggling to emerge from the challenges of our pandemic, has chosen to paint a target on their backs and asked the public to take aim.