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[quote=Anonymous]My money is on Amano against O'Neil.

This is her write-up in Bethesda Beat.

[i]Amano , 51, said she’s going up against O’Neill in part because she thinks it’s important for current MCPS parents to be represented on the school board. Amano’s daughter is a freshman at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC)

She has worked as a parent advocate in a number of capacities over the years, participating in the site selection process for Silver Creek Middle School in Kensington and serving as a delegate to the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA). She was president of the Loiederman PTA and helped advocate for a project to build a performance space at the middle school.

Amano said her insight as a parent at high-performing schools and schools with high poverty rates would help her as a school board member.

“I have an inside perspective of the challenges faced by both schools. The high achieving schools tend to be where the crowding is,” she said. “Then, with the higher FARMS [free and reduced-price meals system] schools, the achievement gap issues come in.”

Amano said if elected, she’d support fostering magnet programs, which can attract resources to struggling schools. She said she also wants to explore extending the school year or even providing year-round instruction at some schools in the county.

She’ll face a longtime incumbent in O’Neill, who is pursuing her sixth term on the school board.  Amano said she’s not in favor of long-term service on the board.

“I would only be interested in serving, at most, two terms because I would assume there would be a parent who would better be able to represent the needs of the school system at that point,” she said.

Amano, whose adult son is a graduate of B-CC, said she has spent many years as a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband are currently co-owners of a Frederick-based distillery that makes shochu, a Japanese liquor.[/i][/quote]

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