Liz Curry: Burlington School Board’s emergency meeting explained

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Liz Curry, who is a Burlington school commissioner from Ward 3.
The consternation about the former Burlington School Board’s emergency meeting is justified. The public deserves a rationale for a public body invoking the emergency meeting exception provided by Vermont’s open meeting law. At the same time, accusations of racial prejudice that affect an employment decision create an urgent need to investigate as thoroughly and responsibly as po