Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro), vice chair of the State House Education Committee, has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars. In April, he told the Conway Daily Sun that Carroll County school “enrollment has been declining for years and projections are it’s going to continue to decline.” Since 80% of NH public school families like their schools, he should be fighting to increase enrollment. Unfortunately, he has been busy wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on really bad ideas to strip money and kids away from public schools. He was a big proponent of giving nearly $6 million in taxpayer money to Prenda, a for-profit Arizona company that uses non-credentialed instructors to provide small groups of kids its concept of an education.

Cordelli accompanied a Prenda marketer to public meetings. If the paid marketer hadn’t been wearing a Prenda T-shirt, it would have been impossible to know which of the two promoters was employed by Prenda. Parent interest was so miniscule the state cut Prenda’s contract to $3.4 million. It ends in 2024. It gets worse. Cordelli has been instrumental in selling Carroll County’s former courthouse building for just $1 to North Star Academy and fought for spending more than $1 million of our tax dollars on this new charter school in Ossipee. If he agrees enrollment is dropping, why burden taxpayers with yet another school? The GOP must end leadership roles of politicians like Cordelli who squander our tax dollars on foolish ideas.

Leonard Witt

Sandwich

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