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place (over the stubborn opposition of this newspaper) a more effective Drug and Alcohol Policy (which the parents demanded)?
3. What member was most active to put in place a competent shcool administration?
4. What member moved the Board to adopt a new program for fair and impartial evaluation?
5. What member has constantly and untiringly pushed the Board to upgrade instructional staff by establishing an equitable and effective merit pay system, by refusing to hire teacher candidates whose records show that they themselves need to be taught, and by removing teachers whose established ability does not meet minimum standards? (A majority of the Board seems bent on establishing an “Index Pay Scale” which will, almost certainly, guarantee ineffective personnel in the future).
6. What member moved the Board to put in place a Gifted and Talented program, required by law but ignored for several years?
7. What member has constantly pressed the Board to improve academic standards and requirements in our schools by requiring more solid subjects to be taught and fewer "marktime" electives? (His summation being, “they are ‘electing’ themselves out of an education.")
8. What member has pressed for and obtained (over the stubborn opposition of this newspaper) full accounting for school funds?
9. What member has spotlighted safety of our school children and staff and has refused to go along with any idea of sweeping under the rug situations of real danger which have occurred?
10. What member persuaded the Board to abandon the pernicious former practice of searching at the end of each fiscal year for something—anything—on which to spend the last cent out of each School Budget with the result that, over the past three years, the Board has returned each year ever increasing amounts to the General Fund and the
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