CHRONICLE EDITORIAL: CROTON-HARMON SCHOOL DISTRICT'S DISDAIN FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT COSTS STAFF TIME AND TAXPAYER MONEY--WHAT'S SO SECRET ABOUT AC OR AI?

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MICHAEL BALTER

From time to time we have mentioned that the relationship between The Croton Chronicle and the Croton-Harmon school district—both district staff and the Board of Education—is not what it should be in a democratic society. We know why this is the case: The Chronicle has published a number of articles over the past year or two that Superintendent Stephen Walker and many or most of the trustees did not like.

Two good examples would be our frequent coverage and editorializing about the struggle of the district’s low-paid school workers to get a better contract, something that took a full year to achieve. Those articles did not make the district look very good in the eyes of many district residents.

Another would be our coverage of the long time it took the district to finally begin installing AC at the elementary school, even though the money for it had been voted by district residents long before. And there have been other stories that obviously made district officials uncomfortable.

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