Student members of school boards present a dangerous conflict of interestÂ
Op-ed published in the Capital
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Category: Elections
Ed Week heaps accolades on AACPS’s SMOB as students’ rather than staff’s voice
Comment published in Education Week
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A jury should decide on Maryland’s next redistricting map
Op-ed published in The Capital
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J.H. SNIDER’S TESTIMONY BEFORE THE ANNE ARUNDEL SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTMENT COMMISSION
Testimony published on eLighthouse
Read MoreWhere was the Capital when the Legislature was designing the new school board election Process?
Comment published on eLighthouse
Read MoreThe Capital (finally) does some original reporting on school board politics
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreWho should be blamed for the public’s ignorance about the School Board Appointment Commission?
Comment published in the Capital
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Local law enforcement officials will not investigate the politically powerful
Letter published in the Capital
Read MoreThe unreported story of why and how the SMOB election became so transparent in 2018
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe SMOB Election: Shame on the Capital for pretending there is no difference between news and PR
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreParsing School Board Candidate Ray Leone’s Campaign Statements
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreReporting on non-partisan elections requires more and different work by newspapers
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreSBAC Appointment May Win Award for Shortest Winning Application
Comment published in the Capital.
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J.H. Snider’s Testimony Before The Anne Arundel School Board Appointment Commission
Testimony published in eLighthouse
Read MoreThe Capital’s Endemic Confusion About the Various School Board Selection Processes
Comment published in the Capital
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Capital kills story on fraudulent claims concerning SBAC appointment credentials
After my Nov. 27 op-ed concerning the fraudulent claims made by AACPS and SBAC senior officials...
Read MoreWhen AACPS staff use government resources for political purposes….
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreCapital Relies on SBAC, Which relies on AACPS PR Office, for Sending Out Press Releases
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreExplaining why the school board appointment commission appointed neither candidate
Comment published in the Capital
Read Moreappointed vs. elected school board: beside the point
Comment published in the Capital
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Anne Arundel school board pick may have been invalid
Op-ed published in the Capital
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J.H. Snider testifies about his Capital Op-Ed and Public Information Act Complaint Regarding the SBAC
Public Testimony of J.H. Snider Before the Anne Arundel School Board Appointment Commission...
Read MoreA story behind the story of the school appointment commission’s non-appointment?
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe SBAC: If 22 candidates are a sign of success, are 2 a sign of failure?
Comment published in the Capital
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Anne Arundel’s Culture of Orwellian Amnesia
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreSBAC transparency PR in high gear
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOur opinion leaders’ fantasies about the new Anne Arundel School Board Appointment Commission
Comments published in the Capital
Read MoreOn The Nature of Del. Pam Beidle’s Leadership on the School Board Selection Bill
Comment Published in the Capital
Read MoreA Glimpse at the Politics Behind the SBAC’s appointment of Colin Reinhard to the BOE
Comment Published in the Capital
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J.H. Snider’s Follow-up Testimony Proposing Procedures for the New School Board Appointment Commission
Testimony before the School Board Appointment Commission of Anne Arundel County
Read MoreCapital Wrong: Board of Education entering a mixed appointment-election era, not a pure election era
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe type of reporting one gets when an education reporter resigns and someone from another beat temporarily replaces her
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreMake Believe about the Anne Arundel School Board Application Commission
Comment published in the Capital
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J.H. Snider’s Public Testimony Proposing Procedures for the New School Board Appointment Commission
Testimony before the School Board Appointment Commission of Anne Arundel County
Read MoreThe new School Board Appointment Commission should not repeat the anti-democratic practices of its predecessor
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOn the School Board Selection Process: Sometimes a partisan prism can be misleading
Comment published in the Capital
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Our General Assembly representatives’ scary ignorance about the new school board selection system they passed
Published in eLighthouse.info
Read MoreThe public deliberation canard on the elected school board cum appointment commission legislation
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOn Del. Pam Beidle’s Credit Claiming Op-ed: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Excerpt published in the Capital
Read MoreThe Capital’s Red Herring Editorial on the SMOB Election Process
Published in the Capital
Read MoreThe evolving politics behind the administrator controlled SMOB nominating panel
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreAACPS’s dubious claims on behalf of the SMOB nominating panel
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreThe open meetings act double standard for the SMOB election
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreSteve Schuh and Julie Hummer: Cases of Bizarre Credit Taking
Comments published in the Capital
Read MoreIgnoring the problem of the primary lends the current BOE selection debate an infantile quality
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreDealing with the BOE vacancy between now and the Nov. 2018 election for new BOE members
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreAnne Arundel Delegation Passes Carelessly Drafted School Board Election Bill
Comment published in the Capital
Read MorePress release, paraphrased in Capital, ignores the corrupt nominating process for SMOB
Comment published in the Capital
Read MoreOn our elected officials’ spurious tiredness trope concerning an elected school board
Comment published in the Capital
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