Jim Hunter for Columbus Board of Education

11/13/2015

I would like to thank the nearly 22,000 Columbus voters who placed their faith in me on Election Day. Although we were unsuccessful this time around, I have not abandoned my vision to see Columbus Schools become the best public school system in Ohio, and our students the best prepared for life.

Thank you again for your support and encouragement.

Sincerely,

Jim

11/03/2015

If elected, I will insure that the Board of Education is hands on. I will demand that each school have the authority to make decisions relative to their student's best interests. I will bring parents and local community leaders into the schools, as opposed to shunning them, as is done under an unofficial policy today. The current Board of Education claims that they fixed a broken system, yet test grades dropped again. They are proud of re-writing the policy manual and they boast of the new bureaucratic committees. Creating a larger bureaucracy is not a solution, it is the problem. Students, parents and teachers should be our primary concern.

11/03/2015

Please cast your vote for me, Jim Hunter, for the Columbus Board of Eduction.

Isn't it about time we do what is right for our children, parents and teachers?

Thank you for your vote today!
Jim Hunter

10/27/2015

I would like to invite you to a meet and greet/fundraiser this evening in Clintonville. One week until election day! Please stop by!

What: Meet and Greet/Fundraiser for Jim Hunter
Candidate for the Columbus Board of Education

Where: Manley Architecture Group Office Building
3820 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43214 (Clintonville)

When: Tuesday, October, 27, 2015
6:00PM to 8:00PM.

RSVP: Pat Manley
Ph: (614) 545-1148, or
Email: [email protected]

10/21/2015

P.A.C.E. is an important program that we need to support and develop in order to create opportunities for gifted children to succeed. The entire community benefits.

It is not widely known that many gifted students also have special needs. Special abilities and special needs are not mutually exclusive, but are quite often mutually compatible.

http://www.columbuspace.org/

October 2015 Meeting – Advocacy and Candidates! Posted on October 19, 2015 by Erica Reeves Thursday October 22, 2015 – 6:30 p.m. Ann Sheldon, Executive Director of the O.A.G.C, to Speak at October Meeting: As Well as Meet The Candidate Night! Come out and join us on Thursday October 22, 2015, as we…

09/25/2015

Precisely the kind of programs we need in Columbus.

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/today%E2%80%99s-high-school-students-need-more-vocational-training

Some schools are doing just that - with great success.

09/05/2015

We are campaigning in Grove City neighborhoods today with volunteers from the Franklin County GOP and my campaign manager, Pat Manley. We met many wonderful people enjoying the Labor Day weekend.

08/31/2015

We have an obligation to our students, and our community to encourage parents and neighborhood leaders to participate in every aspect of every school. Public education is exactly that. Public and inclusive.

08/19/2015

The culture in the Columbus Board of Education continues to be one of shortsighted decisions and concealment. The records scandal, the recent failure to review administrative personnel so that they would have to be re-hired regardless of performance or need, and a few months ago, when the budget was submitted in near "chicken-scratch" form so as not to disclose the actual details. Most Columbus residents are shocked when they discover that the school budget is 1.26 billion dollars, when the entire city budget is 813 million. In other words, the Columbus School operating budget is a staggering 457 million dollars higher than that of our entire city, yet the School Board was ready to pass it with no details or questions asked until the Columbus Dispatch and residents objected to the sleight of hand. The quality of our schools, and the success of our children, begins with the Board of Education. Until we elect 100% new members, the culture that has embarrassed our city, cost taxpayers so much money, and worst of all, inflicted harm on so many students, will continue to cast a shadow over a once great school system. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/08/19/with-annex-gone-clintonville-school-too-small.html

It took only a year for predictions to come true that a popular Columbus City Schools elementary building in Clintonville would be short of space if its historic annex was razed. The district demolished the annex behind Clinton Elementary, on N. High Street near E. North Broadway, in the spring of 2…

08/19/2015

We must have a clear policy and culture that welcomes parents to be involved, not only in their own child's education, but in the daily affairs of the school.

Parent involvement continues to challenge practitioners engaged in school reform despite being a required component of many school improvement initiatives-from Title I Schoolwide Programs to federally mandated school improvement plans. The benefits of parent involvement are clear: A growing body of…

08/14/2015

http://www.salary.com/11-high-paying-blue-collar-jobs-with-mike-rowe/

No One Knows Dirty Jobs Better than Mike Rowe At one point or another, you've probably seen someone performing a "dirty" job and said to yourself "You couldn't pay me enough to do that." But Mike Rowe, host of TV's Dirty Jobs, gets paid to do exactly that. And, in an interview with Salary.com last w…