Worthington School Board

Prepared Remarks

 

Most items that come before the school board are fairly routine, but some issues are complicated. For the complicated issues, especially issues which may be contentious, I like to write out my arguments ahead of the meeting so that my fellow board members, attendees, administration and the press have a sense of why I am proposing what I am proposing, or voting a certain way. In addition, the board updates each other on various committees that we serve on, both in Worthington and at the regional and state levels. This is a list of those speeches and updates.

 

 

DATE

TOPIC

08/23/10 Comments about charter schools, disposition of federal funds and Value-Add testing methodology
06/28/10 Comments about the performance audit, the School Funding Advisory Council and the Creativity and Innovation conference
06/14/10 Comments about our departing Student Board Members

05/24/10

Comments about the difficulties in making structural changes in the district

04/26/10

Comments about the salary schedule for administrators

04/12/10

Treasurer's Advisory Committee Update and Finance Committee Update.

03/22/10

Comments about the Board Member Code of Ethics

03/08/10

Statewide STEM conference update, TAC update, UMCH update, SBOE update.

02/08/10

Treasurer’s Advisory Committee Report

01/25/10

Brief Comments on Mr. Wilson's speech of January 11, 2010

01/11/10

Looking back on 4 years and looking forward to 4 more

12/14/09

Comments about shadowing a special education assistant, the OSU airport and legislative affairs.

11/23/09

Comments about the ODE Center for Creativity and Innovation

11/11/09

Comments about the OSBA Capital Conference

10/26/09

Comments about the District's Five Year Forecast

09/14/09

Comments in opposition to the WEA offer to pre-negotiate the 2011-2012 union agreement

08/24/09

Attempting to define "sustainability" and some thoughts on a project to make our district sustainable

08/24/09

Comments on property taxes,  the state report card and on Worthington's funding under the EBM

08/17/09

Comments in support of placing the levy on the ballot and the need for a sustainability project

08/10/09

Sharing some thoughts about our upcoming  levy decision

07/28/09

Comments about the Practice of Retire/Rehire in Worthington

07/28/09

Comments about the final chapter of Ohio's 2009 Budget Saga and its impact on Worthington

07/13/09

Legislative Update on the Ohio Budget and proposing a 2 year levy instead of a 3 year levy  

07/10/09

Introducing the concept of a spending cap in the Worthington School District

06/08/09

Comments about how Worthington moves forward after the levy vote

06/08/09

Comments about the status of HB1 and the Ohio Budget

06/08/09

Presenting the BOE Impact Award to Dr. David and Ms Bronwynn Hopton.

05/11/09

Comments about the results of the May 5, 2009 Worthington Levy.

04/27/09

Comments about the SPAC report.

04/27/09

Comments about House Bill 1 and our meeting with Rep. Carney

04/13/09

Comments about the SPAC report and Worthington's Cocurricular program.

04/13/09

Additional Comments about the Governor's Education Proposal

03/09/09

Comments about the Governor's Education Proposal as it relates to Worthington

02/09/09

Comments in favor of placing a 7.4 mill operating levy on the May, 2009 ballot

02/09/09

Comments about the Board Resolution regarding potential windfalls from state and federal legislation

02/09/09

Comments about the Governor's Education Plan

01/26/09

Open questions regarding the May, 2009 levy decision

01/26/09

Comments about the impact of SB311 on our high school curriculum and other legislative matters

01/26/09

Presenting the BOE Impact Award to Keith Schlarb.

11/24/08

Comments about the compensation increase for the Superintendent, the Governor's Conversation on funding and Shadowing of a WESP employee.

10/27/08

Comments about the resignation of Paul Cynkar and the percentage of households with kids in the district

10/13/08

Comments about the new WEA contract

09/22/08

Comments about the budget proposal submitted by the State Board of Education

08/11/08

Comments about the OSBA Legislative Platform Committee

06/23/08

Comments about making sure that Worthington Schools remain affordable

05/09/08

Comments about E-Sembler and the Governor's institute for creativity in education

05/09/08

Committee reports from the Treasurer's Advisory Committee and the Finance Committee

05/09/08

Comments about exempting athletes from physical education

05/09/08

Comments about the Slate Hill International Baccalaureate proposal

04/28/08

In Celebration of the district's contributions to a video addressing school bus safety and bullying

04/28/08

Committee reports about the treasurer's advisory committee and the personnel committee

04/28/08

Comments about the death of the constitutional amendment and board policy

04/14/08

Comments about the process used to move Colonial Hills 6th grade to KMS for the 2008-2009 year.

03/31/08

Comments about the District's high school reform initiative.

03/31/08

Comments about the plans that might be employed to fix school funding in Ohio

03/10/08

Comments about the March primary election, Technology in the district and the OSBA legislative platform

02/26/08

Comments about Worthington Schools Participation in the Metro School.

02/25/08

Comments about the change in agenda format

02/11/08

Comments about the library retreat and Governor Strickland's State of the State

01/28/08

Comments about the 2008 Board Retreat

01/14/08

Comments about the agenda format, 2008 technology directions and the 2009 levy

12/10/07

Legislative Update regarding Senator Schuring Constitutional Amendment

11/26/07

Legislative Update specifically concerning employee retire/rehire

10/22/07

Comments about the District's new five year forecast

09/24/07

In opposition to the district's decision to suspend tuition payments for the K+ program

09/24/07

Comments on Employee Health Care costs

08/13/07

Comments on the recently completed treasurer search

08/13/07

In Support of Middle School Baseball and Softball

08/13/07

In Support of the pay raise for substitute teachers with a plea to get a handle on the programmatic and financial impact of substitutes

08/13/07

Legislative Update

07/09/07

In support of Middle School Baseball with a study for a comprehensive review of the cocurricular program.

07/09/07

Legislative Update

06/11/07

In opposition to the district's decision to make the 2008 Election Day a school holiday.

06/11/07

Board Update: Transitional Aid Guarantee and other topics.

06/07/07

(Senate Finance Committee): In support of the transitional aid guarantee and other topics.

05/21/07

In opposition to Jennifer Best's Resolution supporting placing amendment on ballot and signing petition

05/21/07

Question for Special Guest Speaker Jim Betts regarding Constitutional Amendment

05/07/07

Comments about the Constitutional Amendment and a Legislative Update.

04/23/07

Treasurer's Advisory Update, Legislative Advocacy Update

04/17/07

(House Finance Committee): In Support of the Transitional Aid Guarantee and other topics

04/09/07

In opposition to the Constitutional Amendment

02/14/07

In Opposition to the Constitutional Amendment and reporting on the school employee health care board.

12/11/06

In Support of the December Five Year Forecast

10/30/06

In Frustration about the timing of the November five year forecast

08/14/06

In Support of the November, 2006 Bond Levy.

07/24/06

In Support of Middle School Baseball and in Opposition to SPAC

02/13/06

Comments about the May, 2006 levy decision