Every budget season has its familiar elements: Changing leaves, shorter days and a set of obligatory op-eds from budgeteer Bill Marvel designed to sow discontentment with our schools.
This year’s perennial entry, “Teaching Inconsistency,” has landed with impeccable — and utterly predictable — timing.
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