"This is a place where policy is being made and we believe those discussions on policy should be made in the open," said Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group legislative director.
"Requiring a slow, deliberate process to be public is sort of an unreasonable expectation in the circumstances," said political scientist Dr. Gerald Benjamin.
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From Utica Observer-Dispatch:
UTICA — School boards legally can meet in private for several reasons, including matters of security, contract agreements or to discuss pending litigation.
One thing they can’t talk about in executive session: The budget.
Yet that’s what some members of the Utica City School District Board of Education say happened Tuesday.
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From The Citizen:
PORT BYRON (Nov 27, 2012) – The Port Byron Teachers Association brought the state’s Open Meetings Law and Freedom of Information Law guru to Port Byron High School on Monday with the goal of educating the public about the laws.
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