Ellen Re-Elected for another four year term!

NEWS FLASH (August, 2006) – “San Jose Mercury News” and “Mountain View Voice” report that Ellen’s race for re-election to MVWSD School Board is uncontested. Ellen will now have the honor of serving four more years as a trustee on the MVWSD School Board.

Trustee Fran Kruss decided, after 15 years of service to Whisman School District and Mountain View Whisman School District, to retire at the end of this term, ending in December of this year. District parent Phil Palmer filed to run for that open seat, and was unopposed. Phil has been an active parent at Monta Loma Elementary School and Crittenden Middle School, and has served for two years on the following district and city-level committees – Communication Action Team, Parcel Tax Oversight Committee, and Mountain View Educational Foundation. Phil has a background working in technology-based businesses. Congratulations to Phil Palmer, who will be MVWSD’s newest school board member!

With both Ellen and Phil running unopposed in this election MVWSD will not have to hold an election at all, saving the taxpayers of this district the cost of running an election. The swearing in ceremony for new Board members will be at the December 7^th MVWSD school board meeting.

Ellen is grateful for this demonstration of respect shown by members of the Mountain View community for the work she and the MVWSD Governance Team have done. As Superintendent Ghysels often says: “Onward!”

• What have you done for us lately?    (Last updated:   02 October 2006.)

• See December 8, 2005, calendar entry for school board meeting for 2 major events:
  
• Preliminary Board approval of Transition Advisory Team work on issues brought up by the closing of Slater Elementary School in June 2006, including school neighborhood boundary changes, moving up the start of school registrations to February, busing guidelines, etc. (For details please go to MVWSD website: www.mvwsd.org) Final approval of this work was completed at the Dec. 15th school board meeting.
• Election of new 2006-2007 Board officers at the annual Organization Meeting + Board committee reassignments.
  
• June, 2005:  New Superintendent Maurice Ghysels and farewell to outgoing superintendent Eleanor Yick
• December, 2004:  new board members are installed and Ellen is elected president of the board
• So many books, so little time . . . (added on 08/03/04)
• See the MVWSD Board page for:
• CSBA Professional Governance Standards for School Boards (reaffirmed by MVWSD Board of Trustees on January 9th, 2003).