Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 2000 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
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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 . Thus far. District 1,2,4 and several At-Large candidates were featured.
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Editor’s 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
Betty Mays At-Large
I. I have new
energy and I believe that parents should be more involved in the education process for their children. Other people that do not have children cannot see the real issues because they do not have a vested interest. IPS Board members have been on the job too long—they are too relaxed.
them for high school the local school level, where 3. Our students ability to pass parents and teachers can have a the ISTEP test and the student drop greater say out rate in educational decisions. -
4. Have the education to build a circular plan for the student to past the ISTEP and if ISTEP is not working, build a new test. Study the information from the states that are successful and graduation rates are high.
Derek Redelman At-Large
The Recorder makes no public candidate endorsements.
Election candidates were asked the following four questions: 1. Why are you running? 2. How would you make IPS better? 3. What is the most pressing issue facing IPS? 4. How would you address that pressing issue?
leaving school before they graduate or with skills much too low for college or a well-paying job. Certainly, IPS has some challenges that are reflected by the overall community. But I know from working in education that there are urban schools around the country, some with tougher urban problems than our own, that are actually succeeding. I want to use my knowledge of those success stories to help make a difference for our own community — and to guarantee the success of more IPS gradu-
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2. 1. Find ways to raise up our educator 2. .Have the educator voices heard more 3. Get the parents and community involved 4. Study other states education system, find one that best fits IPS needs 5. Find ways to improve social service needs in IPS 6. Find funding to pay for social services 7. Get Children in school early and have a chance to teach them to read 8. Keep 6th grade students in elementary school to prepare
2. Expectations must be raised and progress monitored more regularly, not just on the high school graduation exam when it’s too late to make a difference. Parents need to be welcomed into the learning process and - given a voice in school decisions, not just summoned to school when things go wrong. Accountability needs to be expanded to teachers and schools, not just focused on students as it is now through the graduation exam and sports eligibility rules. Parents must be given more options to ensure that instruction is focused on individual needs. And IPS must use its resources more efficiently by driving funding and personnel decisions to
3. Too many people in IPS equate poverty with stupidity. Poor kids can leam just as well as rich kids. IPS needs to focus on academics and stop using poverty as an excuse for failure.
1.1 am a lifetime resident of IPS and a graduate of IPS schools. I’ve spent my career as an education researcher and have volunteered for
numerous education and community activities. Many of us received good educations from IPS. But far too many of our current IPS students are failing
4. IPS spends more than $7,500 per student, about twice the entire tuition for a private parochial school. But less than half of that money makes it to the classroom, where academics are the focus. The IPS board should focus on academics by setting high academic expectations and giving individual schools the financial flexibility to address those expectations, through higher teacher salaries or whatever expenditures are needed for that individual school. The board should hold teachers and schools accountable for results; and if the existing schools can’t get the job done, then create alternatives and allow parents to choose a school that works better for their children.
Andrew F. Hart At-Large
1. To force the board to take action to see that education is the only goal of IPS.
2. Return to local neighborhood schools. Allow parents to select a specific non-local school u , can provide transportation. Make the curriculum education focused rather than socially focused. Make learning fun — a child will learn what s/he wants to; our job is to make them want to leam.
3. Expenses and top heavy administration controlled by Unions
system back into the hands ofthose who pay for it and use it.
4. Tell Judge Dillon th?t his ruling was illegal (the administrative branch not the judicial bfanch of government makes the rules). Bring all IPS students back to the city immediately. This will; save ( millions yearly currently spent on transportation. Attempt to lessen the unions influence by removing bud trackers and 90 percent Of the administrators. Put control 6f the
Vote Ballot #18C on May 2, 2000
LINDA E. BROWN
Democratic Candidate for Marion County Superior Court Judge Current Judge Pro-Tern, Center Township Small Claims Court (since 1992) Attorney in private practice with the Law Firm Brown & Brown Democratic Candidate for Washington Township Small Claims Court in 1998 receiving 48% of the vote Paid for and authorized by the Committee to Elect Linda E. Brown, Judge
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