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2. Office sought (include office, jurisdiction, position/district number):
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3. Are you the incumbent?
4. How long have you resided in this district/city?
5. How long have you
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6. Is the office sought partisan or nonpartisan? Nonpartisan
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1. Beginning with the most recent position, please list public offices which you have held. Include positions on appointive Boards or Commissions.
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2. If you ran for public office but were not elected, please list those races below:
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In this section, we are seeking responses that reflect the four ratings criteria: involvement, effectiveness, character, and knowledge. These are defined as follows:
1. In a page or less, why are you running for this office? (Note: the interview committee will be given a copy of this statement before your interview; at the beginning of your interview you will have the opportunity to expand on this statement in any way you wish.)
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I am running for school board because the
The current punitive standardization testing model, the selling out to the commercialization of our schools and looking at teachers and students as deficits or problems to be fixed— is the former superintendent’s narrow agenda. It has proven to be a failed experiment.
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2. Describe your most important personal characteristics or traits as they relate to the office you seek.
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•straightforward - I have a proven track record in articulating a clear plan, thus minimizing misunderstanding. I also have the ability to follow through in carrying out that plan and adapting the plan to unforeseen circumstances.
•collaboration and open communication - I am committed to taking in and seeking the valid insights of community and other board members.
•skilled at the art of persuasion - After putting together a plan with others, I have the ability to clearly state the arguments necessary to explain and justify the plan before the board and peers.
•self-reflective - New facts and new experiences are excellent opportunities to constantly critique my own position and to creatively change my position when the community expresses a need and desire to adapt to new circumstances. |
3. Please describe in sufficient detail, one to three accomplishments or contributions of which you are most proud. These examples should illustrate effective skills and capabilities you think apply to the office you are seeking. These accomplishments may have occurred at any time in your personal, professional, or public life.
4. Please list or describe your current and past activities in the community in which you have acquired skills that relate to the office you seek. Include your role in the activity and the year(s) in which you were involved. Involvement consists of many areas such as family, neighborhood, community, employment, or public life.
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•Tutored in the math lab at
•Taught a WTO-Fair trade curriculum to teachers, college instructors and trade unionists (1998-99) - Again, I know what it is like to be a teacher, so this puts me in a better position to be able to understand and deal with an educator’s concerns as opposed to looking at educational issues from the self-interest of the board or of the bureaucracy. I also feel, from this experience, that I would be better able to help teachers address the public, such as at PTA meetings, etc., because I have had teaching experience.
•Made numerous fair trade presentations and participated in debates at schools, union halls and churches (1992-2001) - These skills will help me defend the deliberations and decisions of the school board because of my ability to clearly lay out the facts of the issues at hand.
•Attempted to start a union in my workplace (1989-90) - I helped bring together people from my workplace to explore starting a union. Here I learned the critical skills of bargaining and conflict resolution.
•Campaign manager for state legislator (2002) - I
engaged in extensive discussions with elected officials at the Congressional,
state, county and city levels. Through such experiences, I will be able to
communicate effectively with elected representative s to advance the vision
and projects that the school board has developed for the future well-being of
•Worked with city-wide coalition on
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In order of priority:
1. provide oversight - As a
board member I would have the fiduciary responsibility to make sure the board
is run in accordance with state law and with city regulations. If a board
member is incapable of carrying out the mandates of the law, it is unlikely that
they will be able to prioritize any of the issues of importance regarding the
future of the
2. attend board meetings and ask detailed questions on agenda items - Critical participation is a must for all board members; a board that has fallen prey to group-think and “yes” people, is a dysfunctional board.
3. represent the students (actually they should have their own representation at the board level) teachers, parents and community - The current board has a history of using the budget to serve the bureaucracy and its own narrow agenda. I am running so that the budget process is as transparent as possible and allocates the funds and other tools to put the needs of students and teachers first.
4. check policies, make sure they are working, if not fix them - As a board member, my responsibility is to assure that policies are implemented in a fair and equitable manner and are adapted to demands of the public. Failure to address this administrative priority would result in a dysfunctional school board.
5. conflict resolution - I would not set up situations, as the current board has, of playing community groups off each other. The current board has asserted that there is not enough money in the budget. A critical project is having all parties adequately informed and educated as to the disbursement of funds so that not only may teachers have the resources they need to educate students but also to ensure that teachers, community members and students have a greater understanding of our current budget constraints.
While these items are prioritized in terms of a list, the actual day to day responsibility of a school board member entail a mutual balancing of all of them.
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EDUCATION BACKGROUND SUMMARY
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report is distributed to voters in print and/or on our website. It includes a summary of the candidate’s education. Please summarize your education in 120 characters (letters, punctuation, and space all combined). The League will delete material that exceeds the space limit by beginning with the last entry. Suggested order is (degree) (subject) (school) (year, if desired).
Note: If this question is left blank the League will not include education information in your candidate profile.
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FOR PUBLICATION IN CANDIDATE EVALUATION REPORT
The Municipal League’s Candidate Evaluation Report also includes a summary of each candidate’s civic involvement. Please summarize your civic involvement in the space below. We will make every attempt to include the information in the Candidate Evaluation Report as submitted. Due to space restrictions in the Report, your response is limited to 500 characters (letters, punctuation, and spaces all combined). It is important that you list your involvement beginning with the most important and ending with the least important. If you exceed the length of response permitted, or if the League should find it necessary to shorten responses for publication purposes, deletions will be made beginning with the last item listed.
Note: This information will appear verbatim on the League’s Candidate Evaluation Report. If this question is left blank, the Municipal League will not include information on your civic involvement in the Report.
Check here if you would like the Municipal League to copy the first 500 characters from Question 4 to paste into this section.
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Finished!
If at all possible, send your response to the Municipal League electronically as an attachment, or insert it into an e-mail message (rebecca@munileague.org). Mail and fax numbers are listed below. If the League has not contacted you to schedule an interview, please call the League office at your earliest convenience.
Don’t forget to send the following to the Municipal League: a resume, a photo, campaign literature, and, if you are an incumbent, constituent newsletters and other materials. Please use the check-off list on the cover sheet of this packet to indicate which items you have sent.
Candidate Evaluation Coordinator: Rebecca Cooper