New Sunshine Law Turns Up Heat on Pa. Boards
It took three hours and 38 votes for the Haverford, Pa., school board to pick a replacement for retiring member Nicholas Rongioine.
Those kinds of decisions used to be a lot easier. But a change in the state's open-meetings law means that short-term board appointments can no longer be decided in secret. And some Pennsylvanians are realizing that it will literally take some time to adjust.
"You don't want to compare and contrast your neighbors in public," Maureen McGuire, the president of the Haverford school board, said. "It never took this...
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