marian carter for midview school board
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The Morning Journal Date completed: September 26, 2013
Election Questionnaire Office Sought: Midview School Board
Political Party: Non Partisan
Name: Marian Carter
Age: 66 Date of Birth: 5-13-1947 Place of Birth: Elyria, Ohio
Home address: 1000 Shelby Court Grafton, Ohio 44044
Length of residence in that community: 35 years
Facebook: www.facebook.com/marian.carter.54
Occupation: Retired
Elected Office Experience: This is my first time seeking an office
Education: Attended Lorain County Community College
Marital Status: Widow Name and Age of Children: 2 Adult Children who were Midview
graduates
Organizations: Elyria PTA, Midview Women’s Club, VFW Ladies Auxillary, Midview Compass Committee,
Midview Band Boosters, Election poll worker, Lorain County Fair cashier for Kiwanis, Lorain County Fair
participant, Co-author of a play produced by Friends of the Metroparks
Should you be elected what are three areas you would like to change, address, improve or further research and how specifically would you go about it?
1. I will encourage the schools to reach out to the community more. As a senior, and a taxpaying
citizen, I will seek out programs that the school creates, geared to older citizens in our school
district. Examples of these would be a senior exercise program and season passes to arts
programs, such as there are for athletic events. I will accomplish this by surveying the
community to see what they would like to have available and seek funding for these things.
2. In order to stop declining enrollment because students are going to other schools, we have to
increase programming available for students. For example, increasing the amount of foreign
languages offered and increasing available extra and co-curricular activities. These could be
funded through the acquisition of competitive grants and corporate sponsorship, relieving the
burden on tax payers. I will do this by sending administrators and teachers to training to learn
how to write grants and offer relief time for proposal writing.
3. I will work to provide after school recreational activities for elementary students during cold
months to increase fitness and fun. I will facilitate this in innovative ways with the physical
education instructors.
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Whether for past accomplishments or future goals, why should voters elect you?
Voters should elect me because I will create a district that moves ahead of the rest. A district that not
only educates children in a wide variety of progressive programs, but that offers programming to unify
and serve the community. Teachers should have access to the best tools and technology in the district to
move students beyond the basics. This can be accomplished if we look at new methods of funding ourschools…we cannot cut our way to excellence, and we are outsourcing many children to different places
because we do not offer services that we should. This is taking away from the money we have to work
with for our regular programming and co-curricular and extra-curricular offerings. I will market the
district so that people seek out homes in the Midview area because of its educational reputation for
excellence.