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| DATE: | Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:43:05 -0700 | |
| TO: | <jeb.bush@myflorida.com> | |
| SUBJECT: | Orange County Needs an elected School Board Chair |
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| HEADER: | [TO HIDE HEADER, EDIT MY PREFERENCE]
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:43:05 -0700 Message-Id: <200606150743.AA1080688916@healingtv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Pablo Quinones" <help@healingtv.org> Reply-To: <help@healingtv.org> To: <jeb.bush@myflorida.com> Subject: Orange County Needs an elected School Board Chair X-Mailer: <IMail v8.05> X-RCPT-TO: nt@healingtv.org> Status: U X-UIDL: 397589452 |
| 06/15/06 Honorable Governor Jeb Bush: Thank you for your leadership and great care of our state. I wanted to express my concern about the lack of responsibility on behalf of the Orange County School Board. I wanted to urge you to sign the pending bill allowing for the election of a 4 year term School Board chair. I have worked extensively in our community to insure that our children have the opportunity to receive the best education possible. During my years of work I have concluded that the structure of this system is flawed. The Orange County School Board and their members will continue to ignore and derelict their duties because no one can be held accountable or accepts responsibility. As a resident of Ocoee, Florida since 1986 with a 14 and 18 year old, I have been very involved with their education and have been ignored time and again by administrators at the OCPS and elected officials. I joined the 5 year old Ocoee Education Board to see if as a community those responsible would answer the many questions I had. I was wrong. During a recent public meeting I asked our elected members "chair" Karen Ackerman & Jim Martin of the Orange County School Board for answers to 2 resolutions taken in July 2005 by the Ocoee City Commission. No reply was or has been given to date. If Ocoee, the 2nd largest city in Orange County is shown no respect concerning educational problems affecting our community then any one individual resident stands no chance. I have personally contacted as many local and state elected officials and education administrators within our county and at the State Education department level in order to solve security problems in our crowded Ocoee schools. We need a real County wide elected "Chair" to accept responsibility and begin to fix a long overdue problem. Semper-Fi & God Bless, Pablo J. Quinones help@healingtv.org |