School board member serves on state panel

Staff report

COLUMBUS

A Warren City and Trumbull Career and Technical Center school board member is serving on an Ohio School Boards Association advisory panel and represents the board of education perspective.

Bob Faulkner is part of a group of school board members providing feedback to Gov. Ted Strickland’s office and to Superintendent of Public Instruction Deborah S. Delisle.

Faulkner and 11 fellow school board members recently met in the Statehouse with Dr. John Stanford, the governor’s executive assistant for education policy. The conversation focused on improving Ohio’s public schools, the next state education budget, Ohio School Facilities Commission funding and the federal Education Jobs Fund bill.

The same group of school board members from around Ohio then walked to the Ohio Department of Education, where they shared their views on education with Delisle and received a briefing on Ohio’s successful Race to the Top grant application, the 2010 local school district report cards and the progress of the Ohio School Funding Advisory Council.

Additional meetings are planned.

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