Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada has changed his mind and has decided to pursue the filing of an injunction that would guarantee the Public School System an annual budget of not less than 25% of the Commonwealth\u2019s general revenue.<\/p>\n
In a letter to Board of Education chair Janice Tenorio, Ada said he decided to support the filing of an injunction against the CNMI government because he wants to support PSS\u2019 learning needs. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to move forward with the daily operation and educational programs that are in place,\u201d said Ada in his letter. \u201cAside from working at the pleasure of the board, the PSS key management and I never lose sight of reaching out to the schools to support their learning needs.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ada added that he supports the board\u2019s decision to file the injunction against the central government. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of the board voted to file the injunction. I support the majority decision because that is how democracy works. For example, in the classroom, students vote for their class officers and whoever has the majority vote wins. We teach the students that, as a citizen, we must accept the outcome and work with the decision. We are obligated to practice the democratic process in real life as well,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Ada initially opposed the filing of the injunction. He now explained it in his letter to Ada that his initial stance was because he was thinking of the domino effect of the injunction on families and other government agencies. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought of the position I hold as the commissioner of Education and my role is to protect the interest of the students\u2019 educational welfare. I am saddened about the economic crisis that we are encountering at the moment but my passion for CNMI education stands strong, to protect the education of our students,\u201d Ada said. <\/p>\n
Ada said he wants to assure PSS personnel that he stands with them as they all share the same duties to mold student minds. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to assure the school system that we will stand together to fulfill our duties as educators to mold the great minds of our future generation by providing optimum education for all. Yes, all means all,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
In his initial opposition to the injunction, Ada characterized it as being forced to authorize an injunction he does not support. <\/p>\n
Three of the five members of BOE voted to file the injunction against the government to enforce the Supreme Court\u2019s recent opinion in favor of PSS. <\/p>\n
Tenorio and BOE vice chair Herman Atalig voted no, while Marylou Ada, Andrew Orsini, and Phillip Mendiola-Long voted yes to the filing of the injunction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada has changed his mind and has decided to pursue the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[18974],"class_list":["post-318865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}