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Meet the IPS School Board candidates

By ANARE V. HOLMES The IPS School Board election is May 2. Those selected that day will become members of the board. There will not be any IPS School Board candidates on the ballot in the fall election. These profiles are intended to help voters learn more about potential IPS decision-makers and their respective campaign platforms in an effort to assist with the voting process. Thus far. District 1,2,4 and several At-Large candidates were featured. This week, we profile several At-Large candidates.

the most important teacher. In addition, allowing teachers to reclaim their classroom with

discipline and a fundamental approach to teaching educational and social skills, with the under-

socio-economic dynamic and the' fact that the surrounding community does not promote its children are ready-to-leam. I have visited a number of schools and I hear '

Election candidates were asked the following four questions: 1. Why are you running? 2. How would you make IPS better?

standing that when parents, teachers, administrators and community work together this unity is the schools system s greatest strength, but divided it is its greatest weakness. 3. The quality of education. The use of proper resources and empowering students to feel that they can achieve. 4. By giving students the opportunity to participate in activities with parents. Give parents hands on ideas to help their child while disseminating information of activities between

the language of universal free lunch, the language of homelessness and the issue of parent finances has to be addressed. With respect to ready-to-leam children: teachers have to deal with a variety of issues that affect children before

3. What is the most pressing issue facing IPS? 4. How would you address that pressing issue?

school and community organizations.

they can actually educate them (i.e. emotional issues, negative • ' home environments and the like). We as a community have a responsibility to create an environment that promotes learning on all levels. 4.1 heard a principal say, “If you don’t have higher expecta- • dons you can excuse anything,” and I believe that. I want to use

Elder Lionel T. Rush At-Large

my school board position to advocate high academic standards, and promote that all children can be reached and

Special Note: These profiles are arbitrarily placed and are based upon information supplied by those candidates who responded to the aforementioned questions. Your feedback concerning these candidates may be forwarded to A. Holmes at: P.O. Box 18499, Indianapolis, IN 46218-0499; e-mail: [email protected] and fax (317) 924-5148

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Greg Shemwell At-Large

1.1 can stop the rhetoric of educating the future by changing the image of IPS

and begin to bridge the gap between

school, home and

community, while assessing areas of focus for parent, teacher and community involvement. 2. Empowering parents to be

1.1 want to place the emphasis back on the children, therefore

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running under the platform “children first.”

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would start by

emphasizing children first and work to empower parents to increase parental involvement in the schools. I will do this by selecting a board of parents of which I would report directly to. At the same time, I would work with the business community to insist that parents have appropriate time off from work to be involved in the schools. In addition, I would create an environment that promotes high academic and community standards with the expectation that all children can learn. We need teachers that like our children. 3. Two factors: the

taught. I want to create a dynamic new marriage between the child, parent, teacher, churches, > business. I’m calling for higher ■ community standards that promote ready-to-leam children.

Wayne Wohlfert At-Large

1.1 am running for the school board because IPS is a disgrace ’ to Indianapolis and an unaccept-. able example of government for the benefit of the citizens. Our children are pawns in the politiT . cal job protection racket called “public education.” With the new. millennium we should divest „ ourselves of the failures of the

last 2S years. 2.1 would make IPS better immediately by demanding that the reading program(s) be placed on display in the administration building and the results for all first and second grade children posted with the teacher’s name, school number and length of

See BOARD, Page AS

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Vote for a GOOD MAN

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EVAN D. GOODMAN

1st Judge of a Domestic Violence Court & Mental Health Court

* 1st Democrat Presiding Judge appointed by Governor Evan

Bayh

*18 years of judicial experience giving Equal Justice For All

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Authorized and paid tor by the Committee to Elect Judge Euan D. Goodman Ann LetMh, Chair, Gregory K. SHuer, TVeasurer

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