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VOTE AND BE HEARD! HELP PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN ALL PATHS! It is not a board of education's job to micromanage how teachers teach. The board hires a superintendent to accomplish those educational tasks, leaving the planning to the professional teachers. Currently, Bellefonte Schools are using instructional frameworks which are K-12 multi-tiered systems allowing educators to identify student needs, introduce interventions as needed, and build success for continuous improvement. Teachers make meaningful choices and a board of education supports them by allocating resources and providing time for training and data collection. Together, Win 4 Bellefonte candidates will work with the entire board on a shared vision for the future of education, set the direction of the school district to achieve the highest student achievement results, support a healthy school district culture for work and learning, hire and evaluate the superintendent, ratify collective bargaining agreements, and maintain strong ethical standards.
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PROTECT PARENTAL RIGHTS TRANSPARENCY AT ALL LEVELS Parents are the first teachers to a child. Education of the child is accomplished with teamwork between the home and school in a transparent manner (open and honest without secrets).
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DONT LET
RETIRED TEACHERS OR SPOUSES HIRE THE NEXT TEACHER SUPERVISOR
And just to clarify .... Selecting the next Superintendent of schools
Win4Bellefonte believes that retired teachers
and teacher spouses should not be selecting the next teacher
supervisor, i.e. the district Superintendent! Whether real
or apparent, we believe this is a conflict of interest and a
board member meeting that criteria should recuse themselves. This would also include contract negotiations
with teacher unions and other similar committees.
Transparency, and integrity are the
pillars of trust that keep the community and our district
functioning in a manner that keeps us students first and
student focused.
At least three of our opponents for school
director are either retired BASD teachers or BASD teacher
spouses!
Your Win4Bellefonte candidates are not
retired BASD teachers nor are they BASD teacher spouses.
This allows them to fully and responsibly engage in
selecting the next superintendent as well as serve in
contract negotiations without conflict, whether real or
apparent.
Just to clarify, W4B absolutely sees the
benefit to having school directors with teaching
experience. This adds diversity to the boardroom and
different perspectives to the many discussion items that
a director might face during their term. In fact, there
are current teachers among our candidates. We need,
love, and respect the BASD teachers and their hard work.
They are absolutely on the front lines of education in
keeping students first, putting in countless hours,
keeping up with never-ending changes in technology and
the delivery of education to our students. Our post is
referring to BASD teachers and teacher spouses hiring
their own boss. There are many instances in a BASD
director's duties where this creates an apparent
conflict of interest. It is also why current teachers
cannot serve as school directors in the district that
employs them. It is a conflict of interest.
When a teacher’s spouse is receiving
confidential personnel information about a teacher in an
executive session of the board, there is an apparent
conflict of interest. Negotiating a teacher contract is
also, in our opinion, an apparent conflict of interest
for a director whose spouse is a teacher benefitting
from that negotiation. It is a conflict of interest.
In no way is that disrespectful toward
teachers or their spouses. It simply points out the
duties that we believe should not be fulfilled by a
director that has those ties.
This is our belief and we have made every
effort to support candidates that will not find
themselves abstaining or unable to participate in
certain board member duties.
Our candidates are free from those ties
and that is up to the voters to decide if this is an
issue that is important to them.
VOTE W4B ON NOVEMBER 7th.
#6,7,8,10
Kessling, Weaver, Buck, Barnhart
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K. Evey, Chairperson
C. Helwig, Treasurer