Bob Barman -School Board Position #5

05/20/2015

Ed Hutson is a great guy and I enjoyed spending the morning with him gathering our signs! Now that the campaign is over, we can all start working together for ALL of Lake Oswego's schools and kids!

05/20/2015

So honored to be able to serve another 4 years! A huge thank you to everyone who wrote letters, put up yard signs, held gatherings, walked neighborhoods, e-mailed friends, called voters and picked up ballots! Now the hard work continues as we come together to improve our school facilities and support our staff, parents and students to be the very best they can be!

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05/20/2015

What A Great Night! Thank You All For Your Support!

05/19/2015

You can turn in your ballots until 8pm tonight, just drop them off at the LO library!! PLEASE VOTE!!!

05/18/2015

Can't thank my friends and supporters enough for coming over today and calling, calling, calling! We will know if all this hard work paid off in just 48 short hours!

05/17/2015

Thank you Bruce, Rene & Eli!

05/16/2015

Really enjoyed meeting new people and seeing old friends at the Farmers Market today!

05/15/2015

Last Flash Back Friday of the campaign! One thing we all have in common is the love of our children and wanting the very best for them. This is why we all get up every morning and do the best we can to make things a little better! These two crazy kids are the reason I got so involved in our schools and our community and I hope to be able to give back even more come Tuesday...Have A Happy Friday!

05/14/2015

Bob Barman: Listening To You, Believing That 'All Means All'

What a great town we live in. This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of joining 30 of my volunteers waving signs as we greeted all the runners and walkers along the Lake Run course. What a great reception.

I love the Lake Run, because it always reminds me of new beginnings. Katy and I have attended dozens of Lake Runs and waved on the runners with our boys over the years. What you learn, year in and year out, is what a renewal that race is. Every year, new families with small children walk and run the course.

That is very similar to the renewal at our schools. We welcome 550-575 first-graders each year, and graduate a like number of seniors. Many things change over time — like hairstyles, clothing and music — but the desire of parents to offer the best education possible for their children is a bedrock Lake Oswego value.

I’ve enjoyed listening to you as I have walked door to door with volunteers over the past month. Meeting you on your porches, you reaffirmed your desire to make LOSD the very best.

At one home, I spoke to a PCC professor who lives in the Forest Hills area and who really encouraged me to have the district reach out and partner with PCC. I met Karen Harris, who was on the school board that hired Dr. Bill Korach back in 1987. Karen is a retired teacher from Tigard who suggested we go look at Tigard’s “coding” classes. I knocked on the front door of our city manager, Scott Lazenby, and we discussed how important it is for our schools to work closely with our city.

Many of you were very interested in the district continuing to offer the expansion of college prep classes for all students, because a higher SAT or ACT score translates into college entrance and college scholarships. I met more than a handful of retired teachers and experts who would love to help mentor or tutor a student or two. We need to figure out how we can better harness the incredible talent in this community.

I’m proud of the innovation that I have supported over the past four years, including Spanish immersion for our youngest students, honors English for all, Engineering, Power Reading and Oceanography. After walking, it is clear to me this is the path you want us to follow. These changes were implemented without increasing the budget or raising taxes, and are the kinds of courses that make our community the No. 1 destination for school-age families, help our city thrive and ensure robust and increasing property values.

These are just a few of the issues that I have discussed with you as I have walked door to door. If you re-elect me, I promise I will continue to reach out to you for your wisdom and counsel. I will always keep in the forefront of my thought process that “all means all.”

Our responsibility is to every student at every school. I take that responsibility seriously and will pledge to work on policies that respect the individual dreams of each student while maintaining the integrity of all our systems and programs.

Let’s continue the renewal theme, “We moved to Lake Oswego for the schools.”

Bob Barman is a resident of Lake Oswego and a candidate for Position 5 on the Lake Oswego School Board.

05/14/2015

Thank You Michelle!

Making LO Better

I have never so completely agreed with an endorsement in any newspaper as the one written by the Lake Oswego Review last week in support of Bob Barman. You explained why it is so critical that we re-elect Bob, who has spent 30 years working to make our community better in many different organizations.

Bob and his wife, Katy, have worked as a team to make Lake Oswego a better community. I have seen their volunteer efforts in person over the past two decades. They have been PTO presidents and co-auction chairs. Katy served as president of the Junior Women’s Club; Bob has been a neighborhood association representative as well as vice president and treasurer of the Lake Corp. They both volunteered multiple times per month in their children’s schools, and they volunteered in several other schools in need.

And it doesn’t stop there. Katy was president of the Schools Foundation and Bob was a leader of the last three local option campaigns, including serving as finance co-chair. They roll up their sleeves to make this community a better place to live and raise a family.

This community has many great families, but in my book, the Barmans are at the top. They have demonstrated exceptional leadership and earned our support and your vote. I urge you to vote for Bob!

Michelle Holman

Lake Oswego

05/14/2015

Thank You Paul & Mary Ann!

Support Barman, Wallin

Lucky us! We can vote for Bob Barman AND John Wallin, who are running for separate Lake Oswego School Board seats.

The success of our schools requires decision-makers who are never content with the status quo, who will resolutely seek new options for LOSD that reflect the demands of a changing world and who are committed to curriculum and teaching support that includes opportunities for all of our students.

Barman and Wallin are the right choices for that job.

Paul Kachel and Mary Ann Kunkel

Lake Oswego

05/14/2015

Thank You Greg & Cathy!

We Need Barman

We would like to thank Bob Barman for his dedication to our schools and our community. During the past 15 years, his list of school and community volunteer positions is extensive (including school board position 5), and all of this involvement has allowed him to personally see what works and what doesn’t work.

Volunteering has also given him the opportunity to forge longstanding relationships with parents, students and staff from every single school in our district. It’s really something when so many people can be so comfortable going to their school board member and freely sharing their concerns and suggestions. That’s not always the case.

This is why Bob has been such a great school board member. He knows our schools inside and out, he knows the people and the community, and he’s ready to work with the new superintendent and fellow board members to fix what needs fixing, expand what’s working well, spend our tax dollars wisely and keep Lake Oswego schools the best in the state.

For us the choice is crystal clear: We need Bob Barman for another four years!

Greg and Cathy Shroyer

Lake Oswego