Meet your candidates for public school trustee in wards 3 and 4
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When you head to the polls on Oct. 18, in addition to casting a vote for mayor and city councillor, you will also be voting for a school trustee.
CBC News reached out to all the candidates for wards 3 and 4 and asked them to write their own short bio adhering to a strict word count introducing themselves and explaining what issues would be important to them if they were elected as school board trustee.
There are five candidates running in wards 3 and 4, one of which is the incumbent, Althea Adams who has served as a trustee for one term.
The Calgary Board of Education has always been an important part of my life. I grew up in CBE schools as a first generation Canadian, and my father was a teacher for the CBE. Today, I am proud to send my two children to CBE schools where we live in Ward 4. I have been actively involved in school councils prior to being elected as a CBE trustee in 2017.
I'm an experienced trustee, serving the last four years as trustee for wards 3 and 4, two of those years as vice chair of the board, elected to this position by my fellow trustees. This experience has taught me to look at our system as a whole while considering equity in learning and resources.
Over the past four years, the board has put many great things in place including: a risk management framework to help guide CBE priorities, an equity index to better allocate resources, a program evaluation framework to ensure CBE programs are reviewed on a regular basis, and an Indigenous education Holistic Lifelong Learning Framework.
As your trustee, I will ensure as many dollars as possible are allocated directly to schools and classrooms, focus on improving student achievement and graduation rates and build public trust through transparency and community engagement.
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