Michael Maguire: No business as usual for Cole, Mathiak

From The Capital Times, March 29, 2006

Dear Editor: The recent years' actions of our Madison School Board create a nice template for a new reality television series, "School Boards Behaving Badly!"

The passionate, yet appropriately measured, and get-things-done approaches of Ruth Robarts and Lawrie Kobza would be complemented quite well by Maya Cole and Lucy Mathiak.

Cole is a bright, out-of-the-box child advocate who has a very clear focus on short-, mid- and long-tem thinking about how to tackle the school district's toughest, high-priority issues of budgeting and enrollment. She brings no baggage of influences created by long-term relationships with district personnel, the major point of contention I have with Arlene Silveira's candidacy. I worked with Arlene on the Memorial/West Task Force and I know that she has some good ideas.

With Maya Cole, district stakeholders can be assured that there are no favors to be made in doing what's best for our district's children, their families and taxpayers.

Lucy Mathiak is simply the better candidate. To date, she's only delivered a no-nonsense, non-emotional vision for good district planning that, like Cole, is not burdened with a "business-as-usual" approach often assumed by incumbent board members.

Let's create a majority of transparent doers on the School Board! Vote Cole and Mathiak!

Michael Maguire
Madison

Posted by Ruth Robarts at March 29, 2006 12:07 PM
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