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VOTE TODAY and KEEP KEELING
VOTE TODAY and KEEP KEELING
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Posted by TamiKeeling Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:23:01 CDT
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0 responses 0 comments Voters in VISD District 5 have the opportunity today to make an important choice. Our school system is in the middle of an exciting and long-overdue transformation. I am proud to have been an important part of it during my first term in office.
I believe that, under the leadership of our present administration, we are on the right track towards improved facilities and improving what goes on inside those walls. The board will be making important decisions regarding those facilities. Because of sharply rising costs, I think we will have to make some hard choices, but I have articulated my approach to making those decisions: I will consider our primary mission of education first, and will choose schools and repairs over ancillary facilities.
On the inside, we have to consider new approaches to overcome problems in discipline and enhance student achievement. To say, as does my opponent, that we simply need to enforce the policies we have is an unhelpful gloss over the facts and circumstances we face in our large and diverse district. We need to listen to administrators and teachers and give them the tools they need to do their jobs.
I believe that I have presented the voters with specific and substantive answers to what I will do if granted another term as your representative on the VISD board.
I want to continue the work the voters sent me out to do three years ago. I believe that I have done the job they asked me to do, and I will continue to devote my time and energy to the betterment of our school system as the important cornerstone of our social, civic and economic lives that it is. I ask for your vote today.
Tami Keeling
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