APS - Who is running for School Board?

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I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

But even if she'd made it to all the meetings, wouldn't that be, like, four so far? So missing two -- which seems like it could happen to someone who has other commitments -- would mean she'd missed half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

But even if she'd made it to all the meetings, wouldn't that be, like, four so far? So missing two -- which seems like it could happen to someone who has other commitments -- would mean she'd missed half.

Joined a committee at the beginning of this school year and then doesn't regularly attend and then puts it out there as part of her qualifications for SB = not impressive to me.

Many others actually put in work on these committees. She has not.

[Anonymous]

Is it true McKinley PTA Pres. Mary Kadera is running?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it true McKinley PTA Pres. Mary Kadera is running?

Hope so. She's a great PTA President.

[Anonymous]

I'm Steven Krieger. I'm glad to see this discussion about the school board candidates. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, I am running for School Board. Here's my campaign site: http://stevenforschoolboard.com/

In my experience, most people who get involved in a public service campaign have an "activist moment" -- something that impacts them personally and motivates them to try to make a difference in their community. For me, it was the APS effort to move Key that began over two years ago. My son just started 1st grade at Key and I didn't want him to have to start over at another school.

While I'm relatively new to the education arena, I have plenty of public interest experience. After college, I moved to DC to work for environmental NGOs. I went to UCLA law school because I was accepted into their public interest law and policy program. While at UCLA, I started a UCLA chapter of the CA Innocence Project. After law school, I volunteered at the Arlington Public Defender's office and after seeing how difficult it is for middle class people to find affordable legal counsel, I opened my own law firm where I could set the legal fees. Once my law firm was up and running, I started a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to match middle class people with affordable lawyers.

Plus, over the years, I've published several law review/journal articles on public interest issues (and the Georgetown Poverty Law Journal is publishing another article this spring) that you may download and read for free: https://www.stevenkriegerlaw.com/publications.html

My school board campaign is about more than just Key School. On a macro-level, when you look at the responsibilities of a School Board member, you have to divide them into two main categories:
(1) substantive education policy (how do we best educate all of our students); and (2) How do we ensure that APS operates efficiently as an organization?

I have a business degree and my background is in running businesses. The School Board has to ensure that APS is operating efficiently and using your tax dollars effectively.

Example: Instead of canceling the summer enrichment program, APS should have simply increased fees and/or implement a sliding scale fee schedule based on family income. Canceling the program makes life difficult for the parents who were relying on the program (not to mention the parents who cannot afford market rate summer programs) and takes money away from the teachers and staff who run the summer program.

Another brief example: APS recently approved $421,000 in site studies for 14 different sites. We absolutely need to address the capacity issues, but before approving almost half a million dollars in reports, I would have preferred to see that list of 14 trimmed down significantly more. In the short-term, there's almost no chance APS renovates or remodels on 7 sites -- let alone 14. In the long-term, the site studies may be obsolete.

I read many of the concerns that people expressed about the candidates and perhaps the only consensus I saw was that there are not two perfect candidates, but many are keeping an open mind and looking to gather additional information before the vote in May, which is great.

I have the youngest children of any candidate or current member, so while I don't have the educational policy background that some other candidates have, I am absolutely invested in the long-term success of APS.

I hope you give me an opportunity to earn your vote.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] and I'd be happy to hear from you.

Steven

[Anonymous]

Steven,

Thanks for chiming in. If moving Key moved your child, but fewer children in the County overall, shouldn't that be your priority?

Sincerely,
All other APS parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

But even if she'd made it to all the meetings, wouldn't that be, like, four so far? So missing two -- which seems like it could happen to someone who has other commitments -- would mean she'd missed half.

Yes she has missed at least half of the meetings and has done nothing else. It seems like she joined it just to say she's on it when really she has done nothing.

There are people who really put in work on these committees. Then there are those who join in name only so they can put it on their resumes. That's her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Steven Krieger. I'm glad to see this discussion about the school board candidates. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, I am running for School Board. Here's my campaign site: http://stevenforschoolboard.com/

In my experience, most people who get involved in a public service campaign have an "activist moment" -- something that impacts them personally and motivates them to try to make a difference in their community. For me, it was the APS effort to move Key that began over two years ago. My son just started 1st grade at Key and I didn't want him to have to start over at another school.

While I'm relatively new to the education arena, I have plenty of public interest experience. After college, I moved to DC to work for environmental NGOs. I went to UCLA law school because I was accepted into their public interest law and policy program. While at UCLA, I started a UCLA chapter of the CA Innocence Project. After law school, I volunteered at the Arlington Public Defender's office and after seeing how difficult it is for middle class people to find affordable legal counsel, I opened my own law firm where I could set the legal fees. Once my law firm was up and running, I started a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to match middle class people with affordable lawyers.

Plus, over the years, I've published several law review/journal articles on public interest issues (and the Georgetown Poverty Law Journal is publishing another article this spring) that you may download and read for free: https://www.stevenkriegerlaw.com/publications.html

My school board campaign is about more than just Key School. On a macro-level, when you look at the responsibilities of a School Board member, you have to divide them into two main categories:
(1) substantive education policy (how do we best educate all of our students); and (2) How do we ensure that APS operates efficiently as an organization?

I have a business degree and my background is in running businesses. The School Board has to ensure that APS is operating efficiently and using your tax dollars effectively.

Example: Instead of canceling the summer enrichment program, APS should have simply increased fees and/or implement a sliding scale fee schedule based on family income. Canceling the program makes life difficult for the parents who were relying on the program (not to mention the parents who cannot afford market rate summer programs) and takes money away from the teachers and staff who run the summer program.

Another brief example: APS recently approved $421,000 in site studies for 14 different sites. We absolutely need to address the capacity issues, but before approving almost half a million dollars in reports, I would have preferred to see that list of 14 trimmed down significantly more. In the short-term, there's almost no chance APS renovates or remodels on 7 sites -- let alone 14. In the long-term, the site studies may be obsolete.

I read many of the concerns that people expressed about the candidates and perhaps the only consensus I saw was that there are not two perfect candidates, but many are keeping an open mind and looking to gather additional information before the vote in May, which is great.

I have the youngest children of any candidate or current member, so while I don't have the educational policy background that some other candidates have, I am absolutely invested in the long-term success of APS.

I hope you give me an opportunity to earn your vote.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] and I'd be happy to hear from you.

Steven

Hi Steven, appreciate the dialogue. Please explain how you will make decisions for the benefit of the entire system when you admit that your motivation is: "My son just started 1st grade at Key and I didn't want him to have to start over at another school."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Steven,

Thanks for chiming in. If moving Key moved your child, but fewer children in the County overall, shouldn't that be your priority?

Sincerely,
All other APS parents

There is a whole other thread on this topic. But we don't know how many kids are getting moved in any scenario, which Lisa Stengel has repeatedly said in every meeting. There may be other reasons to use the Key building as a neighborhood site, but we won't know how many kids are actually getting moved until APS draws the boundaries and figures out where they are going to put the Pre-K seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

Same here for David Priddy. I’m on a committee with him and he rarely shows. [/quote

And what committee is this? I call BS. He’s been at every BLPC meeting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Steven Krieger. I'm glad to see this discussion about the school board candidates. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, I am running for School Board. Here's my campaign site: http://stevenforschoolboard.com/

In my experience, most people who get involved in a public service campaign have an "activist moment" -- something that impacts them personally and motivates them to try to make a difference in their community. For me, it was the APS effort to move Key that began over two years ago. My son just started 1st grade at Key and I didn't want him to have to start over at another school.

While I'm relatively new to the education arena, I have plenty of public interest experience. After college, I moved to DC to work for environmental NGOs. I went to UCLA law school because I was accepted into their public interest law and policy program. While at UCLA, I started a UCLA chapter of the CA Innocence Project. After law school, I volunteered at the Arlington Public Defender's office and after seeing how difficult it is for middle class people to find affordable legal counsel, I opened my own law firm where I could set the legal fees. Once my law firm was up and running, I started a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to match middle class people with affordable lawyers.

Plus, over the years, I've published several law review/journal articles on public interest issues (and the Georgetown Poverty Law Journal is publishing another article this spring) that you may download and read for free: https://www.stevenkriegerlaw.com/publications.html

My school board campaign is about more than just Key School. On a macro-level, when you look at the responsibilities of a School Board member, you have to divide them into two main categories:
(1) substantive education policy (how do we best educate all of our students); and (2) How do we ensure that APS operates efficiently as an organization?

I have a business degree and my background is in running businesses. The School Board has to ensure that APS is operating efficiently and using your tax dollars effectively.

Example: Instead of canceling the summer enrichment program, APS should have simply increased fees and/or implement a sliding scale fee schedule based on family income. Canceling the program makes life difficult for the parents who were relying on the program (not to mention the parents who cannot afford market rate summer programs) and takes money away from the teachers and staff who run the summer program.

Another brief example: APS recently approved $421,000 in site studies for 14 different sites. We absolutely need to address the capacity issues, but before approving almost half a million dollars in reports, I would have preferred to see that list of 14 trimmed down significantly more. In the short-term, there's almost no chance APS renovates or remodels on 7 sites -- let alone 14. In the long-term, the site studies may be obsolete.

I read many of the concerns that people expressed about the candidates and perhaps the only consensus I saw was that there are not two perfect candidates, but many are keeping an open mind and looking to gather additional information before the vote in May, which is great.

I have the youngest children of any candidate or current member, so while I don't have the educational policy background that some other candidates have, I am absolutely invested in the long-term success of APS.

I hope you give me an opportunity to earn your vote.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] and I'd be happy to hear from you.

Steven

Steven,

You do realize that as long as there is boundary redrawing, some kids will have to start over at a different school, right? Like PP said, shouldn't it be about which proposal moves fewer kids in the county overall? At least your son will get to stay with all his classmates and teachers but just moving together to a different location, versus many other kids attending neighborhood schools will have to go to different schools from their current classmates. Also under the Key PTA proposal, with all the gerrymandered boundaries, many kids will need to take a longer bus ride to schools much farther from their house. All the other kids have to make sacrifices so your kid doesn't have to start over at a different school?

I do think your opinion on the summer enrichment makes some sense. However, based on what you said first and foremost about not wanting to move your son, you seem to confirm the suspicion that you are running for your own selfish reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

But even if she'd made it to all the meetings, wouldn't that be, like, four so far? So missing two -- which seems like it could happen to someone who has other commitments -- would mean she'd missed half.

Joined a committee at the beginning of this school year and then doesn't regularly attend and then puts it out there as part of her qualifications for SB = not impressive to me.

Many others actually put in work on these committees. She has not.

I’m not a Symone supporter but don’t believe everything you read. PP tell us what this committee is and the we can compare with the committee minutes to see if she’s showing us. Otherwise we should all assume PP is an opponent.

[Anonymous]

^^showing up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Steven Krieger. I'm glad to see this discussion about the school board candidates. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, I am running for School Board. Here's my campaign site: http://stevenforschoolboard.com/

In my experience, most people who get involved in a public service campaign have an "activist moment" -- something that impacts them personally and motivates them to try to make a difference in their community. For me, it was the APS effort to move Key that began over two years ago. My son just started 1st grade at Key and I didn't want him to have to start over at another school.

While I'm relatively new to the education arena, I have plenty of public interest experience. After college, I moved to DC to work for environmental NGOs. I went to UCLA law school because I was accepted into their public interest law and policy program. While at UCLA, I started a UCLA chapter of the CA Innocence Project. After law school, I volunteered at the Arlington Public Defender's office and after seeing how difficult it is for middle class people to find affordable legal counsel, I opened my own law firm where I could set the legal fees. Once my law firm was up and running, I started a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to match middle class people with affordable lawyers.

Plus, over the years, I've published several law review/journal articles on public interest issues (and the Georgetown Poverty Law Journal is publishing another article this spring) that you may download and read for free: https://www.stevenkriegerlaw.com/publications.html

My school board campaign is about more than just Key School. On a macro-level, when you look at the responsibilities of a School Board member, you have to divide them into two main categories:
(1) substantive education policy (how do we best educate all of our students); and (2) How do we ensure that APS operates efficiently as an organization?

I have a business degree and my background is in running businesses. The School Board has to ensure that APS is operating efficiently and using your tax dollars effectively.

Example: Instead of canceling the summer enrichment program, APS should have simply increased fees and/or implement a sliding scale fee schedule based on family income. Canceling the program makes life difficult for the parents who were relying on the program (not to mention the parents who cannot afford market rate summer programs) and takes money away from the teachers and staff who run the summer program.

Another brief example: APS recently approved $421,000 in site studies for 14 different sites. We absolutely need to address the capacity issues, but before approving almost half a million dollars in reports, I would have preferred to see that list of 14 trimmed down significantly more. In the short-term, there's almost no chance APS renovates or remodels on 7 sites -- let alone 14. In the long-term, the site studies may be obsolete.

I read many of the concerns that people expressed about the candidates and perhaps the only consensus I saw was that there are not two perfect candidates, but many are keeping an open mind and looking to gather additional information before the vote in May, which is great.

I have the youngest children of any candidate or current member, so while I don't have the educational policy background that some other candidates have, I am absolutely invested in the long-term success of APS.

I hope you give me an opportunity to earn your vote.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] and I'd be happy to hear from you.

Steven

Steven, the Key move will occur well before the election or before the board members take office. You seem to be a well intentioned guy but with no qualifications to lead the school board. This race is about more than just you and I would encourage you to really consider what your path to visitors will be and what educational experience you have that would motivate voters to vote for you. Your file is too thin at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm on a committee with Symone. She just joined it and doesn't always show up.

How many meetings is this committee having? How could she has "just joined" and "not always show up"?

Joined at the beginning of this school year but touts it as part of her qualifications.

But even if she'd made it to all the meetings, wouldn't that be, like, four so far? So missing two -- which seems like it could happen to someone who has other commitments -- would mean she'd missed half.

Joined a committee at the beginning of this school year and then doesn't regularly attend and then puts it out there as part of her qualifications for SB = not impressive to me.

Many others actually put in work on these committees. She has not.

I’m not a Symone supporter but don’t believe everything you read. PP tell us what this committee is and the we can compare with the committee minutes to see if she’s showing us. Otherwise we should all assume PP is an opponent.

You can look on her website and see what committees she is on and then pull up the minutes to see how often she shows up. I absolutely encourage you to do this.