GoBigEd

Friday, February 17, 2006


HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL:
GREAT CANDIDATES EMERGE
FOR STATE SCHOOL BOARD

It’s a great day in Nebraska when wonderful candidates like these come forward to run for the State Board of Education.

Names in boldface, below, are challenging the incumbents in each district. Jacobsen, Mrs. Carpenter, and Mrs. Pfister all have experience in elective office and are solid, conservative, intelligent citizens who’d do a tremendous job in those important seats.

Which brings up District 8, the southwest Omaha spot. So far, no one has filed against the incumbent, Joe Higgins, a retired District 66 teacher who has been active in the Nebraska State Education Association on the state and national levels.

Surely there’s somebody else out there with some fresh, new ideas, and a desire to serve the voters and the children on the key educational issues of the day, rather than rubber-stamping the status quo, and doing a lot of union featherbedding.

Filing deadline is March 1! We know you’re out there. Just doooooooo it!

(Go Big Ed picks in boldface)

District 5

Patricia H. Timm
1020 North 21

Beatrice, NE 68310

Alan Jacobsen
5649 SW 112th Street

Denton, NE 68339

District 6

Fred Meyer
1580 Hwy 281

St. Paul, NE 68873

Marilyn M. Carpenter
3211 West 18th

Grand Island, NE 68803

District 7

Kandy Imes
1850 20th Street
Gering, NE 69341

Paula S. Pfister
512 Oak
Lexington, NE 68850

District 8

Joseph Higgins
5067 South 107th St
Omaha, NE 68127

VOTE IN THIS POLL:

ACADEMICS, OR MORE KUMBAYA?

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has an unscientific poll going that poses the question of whether the United States should refocus its schools on math and science instruction, or on “the whole child,” which is code for all that social engineering stuff that has nothing to do with REAL engineering and wouldn’t turn out a child educated well enough to BE an engineer.

The “Kumbaya Crowd” was winning when I looked last, though. Sigh:

www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.b3130849b563ef5ccb6a7210e3108a0c/


Comments: Post a Comment

Home