4 prospects are trying among 3 seats on the Grandview R-2 College Districts Board of Education And Learning.
Citizens will certainly choose in between incumbents Stephen Kuzka, Heather Langhans-Bodner, Shane Frazier and also Rachel Wofford on April 4.
Board participants offer three-year terms.
Langhans-Bodner leader did not return prospect sets of questions.
College board participants are overdue.
KUCZKA, 60, resides in Dittmer. He has 5 youngsters and also 6 grandchildren. Kuzka is a company owner and also accounting professional in St. Louis. He offered on the Grandview College Board for 6 years.
Frazier, 38, resides in Dittmar with his better half, Sari. They have 2 youngsters. Frazier is a professional Jefferson Region police police officer with a history in electronic forensics and also youngster exploitation avoidance. He holds an associate level in computer system assistance from Jefferson University and also numerous career-specific accreditations.
WOFFORD, 37, resides in Dittmar with her partner, Joshua. They have 3 youngsters. Prior to leaving job to take care of her youngsters, Wofford was a prekindergarten instructor at Christy Park Montessori. He participated in Jefferson University for 2 years.
Do you have any kind of experience (chosen workplace, public company, volunteer job, and so on.) that would certainly offer you well in this placement?
Kuzka: I have actually gotten on the Grandview R-2 board for 6 years.
Frazier: As a previous college source police officer, my special and also important experience aids me bring safety and security to the leading edge of the area. I functioned straight with college personnel to fix hard college circumstances. I additionally participated in and also provided at college board conferences, enabling me to recognize the principles of the placement. I have actually additionally offered in numerous volunteer functions such as young people sporting activities instructor, Path Life United States leader, and also Unique Olympics Missouri.
Wofford: I am the present Grandview Elementary PTO head of state, and also with the assistance of various other board participants, the team has actually intended 2 neighborhood occasions in addition to others on the schedule for the remainder of the academic year. We amazed our structure personnel with tiny motions of assistance and also inspiration. From 2017-2019, I was the Cubmaster for the Grandview Cub Precursor Load. I regularly offer my time at Grandview Elementary and also aid instructor the Redbird Rookies Little Organization.
What are the area’s largest issues and also just how would certainly you resolve them?
Kuzka: The area’s largest problems are keeping personnel and also remaining to enhance educational program. I will certainly resolve these problems by boosting personnel wages and also supplying sources to enhance the educational program.
Frazier: Because of present occasions throughout the nation, I think the safety and security of pupils and also personnel gets on every one of our minds. I think I can bring suggestions that will certainly place safety and security initially. Furthermore, in partnership with college personnel, testimonial present protection methods and also make essential suggestions, nonetheless small, that will certainly enhance area protection. Second, I think staff member retention is an additional issue. Our area has actually shed excellent educators from bordering areas for a selection of factors. I will certainly collaborate with managers and also personnel to establish the aspects and also aid establish an efficient strategy to maintain and also encourage educators.
Wofford: The largest problem in our area is staff member retention. This difficulty is really felt throughout our area, whether it is educators, bus vehicle drivers or assistance personnel. Maintaining the remarkable personnel we have and also hiring brand-new personnel will certainly go to the leading edge of my issue. I have high hopes that we, as a board, can create sensible, long-term options. My objective will certainly be to locate methods to provide affordable wages, motivations, and also make generously clear what makes Grandview such a terrific location as an area and also as a neighborhood.
Why should citizens choose you to this placement? Note your objectives, if picked.
Kuzka: Over the previous 6 years, I have actually functioned vigilantly to enhance the trainee academic experience, area centers, and also transform to the 4-day college week. My objective for the future is to proceed boosting the educational program. On top of that, I wish to enhance the safety and security and also protection of all pupils and also employee at Grandview.
Frazier: I have actually the experience required to offer every one of our youngsters with the experience they require to visit college each day in a risk-free atmosphere, while being supplied with a terrific education and learning by several of the very best teachers. As moms and dads, all of us recognize quite possibly from digital education and learning, the educators in our area have the very best possibility for a terrific education and learning. Educators are the foundation of the education and learning system. If chosen, I wish that safety and security is a leading concern, in addition to aiding to develop a setting where teachers wish to educate and also at some point retire.
Wofford: As an engaged moms and dad in our area, I will certainly add a useful viewpoint and also advantageous input. The partnerships I have actually constructed within our area over the 7 years my household has actually belonged of Grandview will certainly aid me offer everybody’s benefits in mind. I guarantee our educators and also think they are the secret to the success of our pupils. A few of my objectives, along with retention, consist of boosting interaction throughout the area and also neighborhood, sustaining our personnel, and also taking actions to make our school more secure. Every one of which will certainly offer one of the most efficient education feasible.
What should regional college boards perform in feedback to state authorities’ activities in looking after college educational program?
Kuzka: College boards must remain to defend the right to pick educational program and also techniques for their very own pupils.
Frazier: First, I count on openness in federal government. Openness offers added trust fund for neighborhood participants. I think the state principle of the costs is attempting to offer clearness when discussing educational program. I am additionally not opposed to making curriculum products available to the general public. Alternatively, the costs show up to call for educators to send educational program adjustments, nonetheless small, 2 months beforehand. I do not think it is essential. I think it burglarizes the spontaneous discovering atmosphere when youngsters ask inquiries concerning subjects not in the present lecture. I do not think that the college board must sustain these costs as they stand.
Wofford: As a possible college board participant, I’m not certified to choose concerning educational program. I am not a scholastic, being a mommy throughout covid verified that. I trust our educators to recognize what requires to be shown and also when it requires to be shown. Not every class of youngsters coincides, and also my issue is that this will certainly remove the capability of educators to review their lesson intends as required. This is a large drawback for our pupils. There is currently a scarcity of educators, we do not require to needlessly make complex a currently uphill struggle.
Do you sustain the $7.2 million bond problem recommendation Safe Eagles on the April tally? Why or why not?
Kuzka: I sustain Proposal Safe Eagles. This is a leading concern of mine since it will certainly raise safety and security and also protection for all pupils and also personnel in the college area Additionally, I sustain added jobs thinking continuing to be funds are offered.
Frazier: Yeah. With that said being claimed, I’m not a significant advocate of elevating tax obligations, specifically when rising cost of living goes to an all-time high. Nevertheless, this is a bond expansion that will certainly not raise our tax obligations, just the long life of the bonds. With the flow of Proposal Safe Eagles, we will certainly have the ability to much better safe our structures and also lower the danger of outdoors hazards to our youngsters and also personnel. We owe it to our family members to stop the unimaginable from taking place to our neighborhood. On top of that, our sewer therapy plant goes to completion of its life without an upgrade and also requires to be resolved
Wofford: I completely sustain Proposal Safe Eagle. This will certainly enable essential repair work to be made that will certainly maintain our pupils and also personnel secure for several years ahead without setting you back taxpayers. If passed, it would certainly enable a collection of jobs that would certainly make our structures much more safe generally yet specifically from trespassers. The sewer therapy plant requires to be changed, which is essential since it hasn’t been updated in virtually half a century. New buses, a complete kitchen area and also signs throughout school will certainly all be an included perk for the area.
