Seth Rosenblatt - San Carlos School Board

The Education Competition Myth

2012-02-01T04:58:28Z

The education publication eSchoolNews just published a second article of mine, entitled “The Education Competition Myth.” The genesis of this article was from all of the comments I received from parents and other school board members from my first article last year, “Why Education is Not Like Business.” Although this piece was somewhat [...]

Welcome to Our New Board Members

2012-01-13T19:38:56Z

Last night we finished a process that we kicked off last month to appoint two new school board members from the vacancies created by Carrie Du Bois and Mark Olbert who each successfully ran for other political positions in the middle of their school board term. We had seven applicants for the appointments who [...]

The New Budget Roller Coaster Begins

2012-01-08T16:21:48Z

A few days ago, the Governor released the first version of his proposed 2012-2013 budget. It will cut nearly $5 billion to public education if the voters reject the Governor’s plan to raise taxes in the fall (which will require a ballot initiative because 2/3 of the legislature will never vote for it). [...]

Suing Your Brother

2011-12-16T18:29:48Z

Although in many ways this is the perfect illustration of “inside baseball” and something that I’m sure most San Carlans were not aware of, the San Carlos School District was involved — along with the Sequoia Union High School District and the San Mateo County Community College District, in a lawsuit against the San Carlos [...]

Going the Appointment Route

2011-12-16T16:23:32Z

Last night was the first meeting of the new board, which is now only three members, Beth Hunkapiller, new Board member Adam Rak, and myself. Two seats were vacated as both Carrie Du Bois and Mark Olbert won election to other positions in the middle of their terms. The board had the option [...]

The Most Hopeful of Times?

2011-12-03T16:31:55Z

Over the last few days, I attended the annual CSBA Annual Education Conference, which is the main event for school board members around the state. This year the event was in San Diego (but back in San Francisco for 2012). Like previous CSBA conferences, one of the more frustrating parts is not being [...]

Doing our Homework

2011-11-19T16:01:47Z

At Thursday night’s board meeting, we had an extremely interesting and meaty discussion about homework throughout the district. I was very pleased with the discussion, as it was open, honest, important, complicated, and a perfect demonstration that issues are not often as black and white as they may seem.

The district has had a long-held [...]

Filling Two Vacancies

2011-11-13T15:11:46Z

There were two important e-mails from the Superintendent this week regarding the next steps to fill the two school board vacancies left by Mark Olbert and Carrie Du Bois. Please take a look, and I encourage everyone to attend both these forums and the regular school board meetings on November 17th and December 8th.

As [...]

Victory, and Next Steps…

2011-11-09T15:47:22Z

Although the election isn’t officially “certified” for a few weeks, the results are in. Thank you to all San Carlans for your overwhelming support for my candidacy. The final results from last night are:

SETH A. ROSENBLATT – 2,628 (40.9%) ADAM RAK – 2,377 (37.0%) PETER TZIFAS – 1,418 (22.1%)

Congratulations to my soon to be [...]

Do you Want to be Board Member? (Redux)

2011-10-30T16:10:09Z

Also on the agenda for last Thursday’s board meeting was a discussion about the process for filling potential board vacancies after the November 8th election. Although the current board — by definition — wouldn’t be the one actually making any decisions on this matter, it seemed prudent to get some preliminary information to inform [...]