School board members told to weaponize pay as school choice approaches

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A guest speaker suggested it at a conference to influence votes. Man.
Most weren't on board.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I got out and walked out of that session. I
was completely inappropriate, not something that elected officials should be
subjected to.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
School Board member Rob McClellan, speaking in a personal capacity,
says this began as a budget discussion and suggesting this
when their job is to look out for students is insanity.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
To inject political pressure into decision making for us, into finances,
it's not something that's appropriate.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
He says. The legislature needs to do more to get
politics out of schools. Andre Perard, News Radio seven forty
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