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NAPLES, Fla. Sounding off on funding and testing, Collier Copatagonia everlong review vacations2unty School Board District 3 candidates Erika Donalds and Kathy Ryan faced off in a debate Wednesday, about a month before Election Day.
The debate, hosted by the Naples Daily News, gave the two Collier County women a patagonia pro shop ukchance to differepatagonia cascada 30l backpack reviewntiate themselves in the waning days of the 2014 election cycle. The pair faced off in a four person primary in August, emerging as the two runoff candidates.
am running for the school board because I feel I fill a couple of needed vpatagonia everlong review vacations1oids on the board, said Donalds, a certified public accountant. first one is someone with financial or budget experience. Half of our tax dollars are going into the school district, and we want to make sure those students are getting the most effective part of that funding. said her experience as a former educator she spent more than 30 years as an counselor, teacher and administrator, 28 of which were at schools in Immokalee will benefit to the school board.
I elected to the school board, that would put three educators on the board, she said, noting that school board members Julie Sprague patagonia argentina popular foodsand Roy Terry are both former educators. is not about building widgets. That not what we do, and I think those of us who have been in education have a better understanding about what it is to be an educator and working with kids on a daily basis, and they are not widgets. has spent more than a decade with Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher Co., a New York based investment group, where she is responsible for the company budgets and strategic planning. She said that background makes her uniquely positioned to tackle the school board budget.
But Donalds said the fact that she is a parent with school aged children is just as big an asset as her financial background. She said that makes her better qualified to understand the current needs of children and parents.
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Ryan said her education background helps her not only understand the needs of students, but also the school patagonia discount code hollisterdistrict budget and the business of education.
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do need to go and use our bully pulpit as a school board to try and get the Legislature to see they need to change things, she said.
Ryan said there are district level tests that patagonia everlong review vacationscould be reduced as well, adding she somewhat agreed with Lee County School Board decision to put testing in the hands of teachers.
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Donalds agreed too much time is spent on testing. She said testing needs to be addressed at the local level.
see a lot of blame gpatagonia guide jacket junctionapatagonia guide jacket jewelryme going on. The district says they state mandated tests, the state says we only have one test a year, and somewhere in between the students are testing 25 to, some say, 40 percent of the time they in school, said Donalds. got to do what best for the kids, which is more instructional time, less test prep, less benchmark testing. no candidate received more than 50 percent of the votes in August primary, Collier County residents will vote in November to decide the race. School board elections are countywide, nonpartisan races.
