Congratulations to successful CEA-endorsed School Board candidates: incumbent David Wyman (Dale), and challenger Tom Doland (Matoaca) who will be returning to the Board after a 4-year absence. They will join unopposed victors Patty Carpenter (Midlothian) and Dianne Smith (Clover Hill), as well as Carrie Coyner (Bermuda) who defeated CEA-endorsed candidate Stella Edwards.
This iteration of the school board should be very student-centered and employee-friendly as both Doland and Smith are career educators who worked as front-line employees and as administrators within CCPS. Carpenter has always shown a community-sensitive focus, and Wyman has brought a highly rational, process-based approach to school division oversight. While Ms. Coyner was not an endorsed candidate, in my discussions with her she has expressed a desire to elevate the level of community involvement with schools. During his first run for school board, Mr. Wyman was not endorsed by the CEA, but we have been most impressed with the way he set about the task of learning the inns and outs of school governance and applying those aspects of his work in the business world.
I look forward to working with all of the Board members to continue to advance the democratically (small "d") agreed upon interests of CEA Members, as well as on behalf of all public school educators in Chesterfield who have yet to realize the value of collective action, toward our goal of creating the best school environments for employees and the students they educate.
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