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Buckel wants quality counsels, student research
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Apr 19, 2005 05:08pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Apr 17, 2005 05:00pm |
| Description | Bill Buckel and W. Carlton Weddington are two of the seven candidates for the Columbus Public Schools Board of Education who will be on the May 3 primary election ballot. The others are Betty Drummond, Andrew Ginther, Micheal D. Wiles, Barbara Bryson and Al Warner. The six who receive the most votes will go on to the November general election, competing for three open board seats. Profiles of Bryson and Warner ran in the April 7 edition of ThisWeek, and those for Drummond, Ginther and Wiles will run April 21.
For more than 20 years, Bill Buckel has tried to get Columbus Public Schools to support elected school-based quality assurance councils that would monitor academic performance at each school.
In fact, in January 2003, he asked board members to adopt a policy that would do just that.
Board members have listened but not acted on his suggestion. Getting elected to the school board would get his idea the attention it needs, he believes.
Buckel is one of seven candidates for the CPS Board of Education. He has run unsuccessfully for school board since 1981, and was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 on a platform of reducing the national debt.
A supporter of interest-free financing, Buckel outlined a way he believed the district could have funded the school rebuilding project without issuing 28-year bonds. He figured that his pay-as-you-go plan, which would have built schools as the money came in, could potentially have saved $900-million in interest over the life of the building project.
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