The legislature’s education committee, holding a marathon hearing on education reform bills, just heard Commissioner of Education Mark McQuillan speak in favor of House Bill 442, which would allow the state to replace school boards of chronically failing school districts. McQuillan said the law would be used sparingly, and would not necessarily usurp local elections, but would potentially remove a road block to reform. He is also in favor of a bill to reform the state’s high schools. A similar measure got hung up in the legislature last year.
