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Posted 9/29/11 by Common Good

Today’s Read: Washington Post on a Case of Rules Trumping Results

The Washington Post editorialized today that a Montgomery, MD, elementary school’s longstanding and successful exercise program—that was shut down after administrators became concerned that it might violate the district’s ethics policy—should be allowed to restart. (You can read more about the program and the bureaucratic absurdity it’s currently facing in this earlier Washington Post op-ed by district parent Morris Panner.)

The paper writes of district parents’ request to Montgomery Superintendent Joshua Starr to reinstate the program: “Let’s hope Mr. Starr has the sense to encourage a program of proven worth. Indeed, unless he’s more interested in the rule book than in results, he ought to be looking for ways to replicate this successful model at other schools throughout Montgomery.”

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