Newport Daily News

To our City Councilors:

We, as parents of students in Newport Public Schools, volunteers and community leaders, vehemently oppose the latest effort to re-insert a failed plan regarding administrative integration.

Resubmitting a failed motion from three years ago without any effort to engage the community nor find a better future for our kids is lazy and short-sighted.

It doesn’t go unnoticed that this was snuck into the consent agenda last-minute in August. Your intentions couldn’t be more clear.

Members of this city council have been stone-walling our community with a backdoor deal to resubmit the same dumb plan that was already rejected by their constituents. They are being obstructionist when it comes to the creation of an Academic Advisory Committee − a group of

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