Tag Archives: regionalization

Let’s get curious about the charter school controversy

You’d like to think that Education, in the business of encouraging being thoughtful and curious about things, would be curious about itself. But it would be naïve to expect that. Education isn’t any better at self -examination than any other embedded institution. There was a news story early in August about a ballot question for […]

September 19, 2015 – 8:32 am | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Regionalizing neither inevitable nor necessarily better [April 2010 / CCT]

Currently regionalization is being considered on the Lower Cape on two fronts. The towns of Wellfleet, Eastham and Orleans have been meeting to discuss the possibility of merging their police departments. Meanwhile a committee in Provincetown considers bussing the town’s children an hour or two each way to the Nauset district in Eastham and Orleans. […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:39 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)