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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.)
The 4 Jefferson Metropolis College Board of Schooling candidates shared their ideas and mentioned a number of subjects throughout a candidate discussion board by the Information Tribune.
The discussion board featured Adam Gresham, Marc Ellinger, Anne Bloemke- Warren and Erika Leonard.
The 4 candidates are looking for the 2 open positions on the Jefferson Metropolis Board of Schooling.
Among the subjects the candidates mentioned had been vital race principle within the faculty district and instructor compensation.
ABC 17 discovered that instructor compensation was one thing candidates shared comparable views on.
Trainer Compensation:
Erika Leonard
“We have to do higher in persevering with to pay lecturers which were invested on this district, which are exhibiting good efficiency, and beginning instructor pay to draw high quality educators”.
Marc Ellinger
“I firmly consider we have to improve pay for nice lecturers and I feel we must always take a look at incentives, I feel we must always take a look at methods to search out financial savings within the administration”.
Anne Bloemke-Warren
“If we do not put money into our lecturers there isn’t any one arising behind them that may carry out the service that they carry out day-after-day”.
Adam Gresham
“We have to reward lecturers and pay lecturers for doing that. Wonderful lecturers ought to completely be paid extra however a part of their compensation package deal that we’re speaking about in a strategy to preserve and retain lecturers is to rent good ones and to belief them”.
The candidates additionally talked about their views on vital race principle on the faculty district.
Important Race Principle:
Erika Leonard:
“CRT is just not being taught right here, its a non-issue, it isn’t one thing that we’re doing”.
Marc Ellinger:
“We should always educate that I feel that is actually good. We should always not educate anybody that due to your pores and skin colour you are a greater particular person or a worse particular person”
Anne Bloemke-Warren
“Sure, we must always educate an correct historical past, I feel together with views greater than the one perspective we have been educating”.
Adam Gresham:
“I don’t consider that anybody is coherently oppressive or inherently oppressive, and lecturers shouldn’t be educating that in a classroom”.
The election might be held on April 5.
To study extra concerning the subjects every candidate discusses within the discussion board, you may click on the stay stream hyperlink above.
