Did you know that the Town of Dresden pays approximately 50% of the Whitehall school district’s budget, has around 5%-10% of the children in the school and yet has no representation on the Whitehall School District Board of Education? Look for yourself. What’s missing? Not one single member on the Board is from Dresden.
When I inquired a few years ago as to why Dresden was not proportionally represented, I was told the Board of Education (with no Dresden members) decided to make all seats at-large.
The problem with this is because Whitehall is so much bigger than Dresden, we will always be out-voted in a straight town by town contest.
This must change though. Two seats are up for election on the Board of Education on Tuesday, May 19th. We’ll have more on this in the weeks ahead.