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Friday, February 17, 2006
Posted
10:14 AM
by Susan Darst Williams
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/
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