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aown. Luke criticized the school board’s executive sessions which frequently stretch past 2 a.m.

"There's not that much secret public business,” he charged. "Personnel problems are not of that magnitude, they're not that complicated.”

Fiddling Around

He noted that after years of delay, the school board still hasn't reached any decision on a building program for the schools. "They’ve fiddled and fiddled around. The school’s are overcrowded now," he said, suggesting that the school board "gel off the dime on capital outlay.”

He also called that the board has been giving only a year extension in complying with state mandates on education which will require additional class space.

Luke pointed out that all appointed and elected officials take an oath to uphold the laws of the commonwealth. “If you can’t live with that oath to uphold the state constitution, then you

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