As we reported last week, Franklin Teachers made up the majority of the audience at the July 20 Franklin School Board Meeting night’s school board meeting. As Franklin teachers took turns voicing their concerns and opinions to the Board regarding the District’s up-coming employee health care insurance bidding process, one audience member was busy handing out the following “Education Employee Bill of Rights,” flyer, supposedly from a group named “Milwaukee Metro Common Platform.” THE FRANKLIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL (FIJ) intercepted one of the flyers and following the meeting gave it to Superintendent Steve Patz, who was unaware of what had taken place in the audience during the meeting and we asked him about the legality and/or appropriateness of passing-out this kind of literature during the school board meeting. Dr. Patz said he wasn’t sure of the answer to either question and wanted to read the flyer before saying anything.
On July 22, FIJ emailed Dr. Patz and asked: Does the District have a comment or statement to make regarding the flyer that was distributed at the July 20 School Board Meeting?
To-date Dr. Patz has not responded to our request for comment.
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