This one is for you, Stan.

3. What have you done to advocate issues concerning our schools?

            A. What was the issue?

            B. How did you push for it?

            C. When?

A.  Rather than renew the superintendent's contract, I advocated for the position to be publicly posted and I campaigned for the search for a new Superintendent to begin. 

B.  Stanley Wotring, School Committee Candidate, received an anonymous tip that a Public Hearing could occur if we received 150 certified signatures.  The vote could be reopened and we could have a public hearing. Stanley and I spent the next month working with some other concerned citizens to advocate that a search begin, for a Superintendent, on a national level, to find the best fit for Lynn, someone with a proven track record of turning around failing districts.

This included hours of collecting signatures, meeting with parents and citizens of Lynn and hearing their concerns, educating the public on what issues were currently negatively affecting our schools and how the right person for Superintendent could change that.  

C.  This was approximately two years ago, when the Superintendent’s contract was up for renegotiation.

I have done a considerable amount of advocacy for parents of children with special education needs, but that was advocating for individuals and not the schools globally.  

*Italicized sections were not included in my original response to Neighbor to Neighbor.  Writing is iterative, isn't it Stan?