Ekey: Elected School Board Needed To Take Away Superintendant Haas’ “Rubber-Stamp”

March 2, 2008

The Honorable Sheila Hixson
and Members of the House Ways and Means Committee

The State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Delegate Hixson and Members of the Ways and Means Committee:

I am writing in support of HB 779 which would provide for an elected Board of Education in Harford County. I retired from the Harford County Public School system in December 2006 after more than 33 years as a teacher and administrator. I have served as the principal of Bel Air High School, the principal of C. Milton Wright High School, and as the Director of Secondary Education. I am the immediate past president of the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals. I continue to pay close attention to the operation of the public schools in Harford County and to public education in Maryland.

For the past two decades I have observed and worked with the various people who have been appointed to the Board of Education of Harford County. They have been almost unfailingly dedicated, sincere, hard-working individuals. They have given much time and energy to their responsibilities as Board members.
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