Voters in the November 5 general election will see one contested Gainesville City School Board race, as well as one newcomer taking on a post and an incumbent remaining. Regular scheduled elections are held in odd-numbered years. She first pushed for this change in a Facebook post a week ago and then again in the Thursday meeting. Voters in the November 5 general election will see one contested Gainesville City School Board race, as well as one newcomer taking on a post and an incumbent remaining.

"It's grown a lot since I went to Gainesville High in the 90s, but I still feel like it's really a tight-knit community," said Nordholz. He also has an elementary age son. He said his goals remain consistent: to see improvements in academics and use the best business practices for the system." I want to see them excel in life, get them set up where they can excel past high school." The School Board on Wednesday hosted the first of three scheduled public meetings to go over options and take public input on plans for what is now known as Elementary School I.

Nordholz said he liked that the Gainesville City School System encompassed so much diversity. One of his colleagues expressed a similar hesitancy. "And I said, 'We need to fight for those kids, as well as the other kids, but especially those kids that are being left behind." In a Thursday meeting, city commissioners voted on the motion to negotiate with the Alachua County School Board to transition the cost of having officers in schools. As for District 3 specifically, Payne said he could see mentorship having a big impact. Newcomer Chad Payne has a similar idea about the importance of mentorship in the community. “We can redirect those funds into programs that we currently have on the table that we can scale relatively soon… for initiatives that the community wants,” Johnson said. All rights reserved. "You have a single high school system, I think the diversity we have in the city school system is really great - you have all types of ethnically and racially, but also socioeconomically and I just think there's a lot of benefits to a community when everybody is sort of doing life together." Active in the Gainesville community, some of the city's creatives might recognize him as a dance dad, supporting his 9th grade daughter as Vice President of the board of the Gainesville Ballet Company. Nordholz is an alumnus of Gainesville High School.

The school board does not always get it right. 20-2-51(e), Copyright © 2020 City of Gainesville. Visit http://www.gcssk12.net/board-of-education.html for information about the Board of Education. “If we want our children to be safe or we need protection, who better than GPD?”. He also mentioned how important affordable housing was to him and his constituents. His personal goal, if elected, is to reinforce and grow the mentorship opportunities available in the district. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5. A career in education can be especially rewarding because educators make positive impacts on students that last a lifetime. He got the bug for the District 3 seat after serving the school system for five years, both in youth sports and serving two years on the Enota Governance Council. The commission does not always get it right. We have problems we’re dealing with but we have to open a line of communication and work together with not only the school board, but with the county and the sheriff.”. Board members are elected at-large from five geographic districts in nonpartisan elections, and all represent the entire county. He referenced The Hub, a student and family resource center at Gainesville High School that will open in January. Commissioners want to see the city’s $900,000 spent on other initiatives. "To me, the best way to get rid of the poverty is for the school system and industry to put together a plan that will lift them out of poverty by giving them a skillset, and I think the school is the place to start that, the training process, and then partner with local businesses and see who can come up with something to change that situation." "I just feel like the city school system creates opportunity fo everybody, no matter what their goals are, no matter what their background is," he said. All rights reserved. Apply to Computer Instructor, Facilitator, Senior Engineering Assistant and more! Individuals seeking a Gainesville City School Board seat must meet the requirements of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, the Georgia Elections Code, … He said he wanted to push some of the available resources more to help kids stuck in the poverty cycle. Gainesville City Commission Votes To Discuss Shifting School Resource Officer Funding, WUFT 89.1 / 90.1 Featured Thank you Gifts. Individuals seeking a Gainesville City School Board seat must meet the requirements of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, the Georgia Elections Code, City Charter and the City Code of Ordinances. Simmons wanted more dialogue with the school board and other district officials. Displayed here are Job Ads that match your query. Nordholz said his goal would be to continue to support the movements put forth by the current school board and superintendent, Jeremy Williams, including partnering with local colleges and the offering of a high amount of AP classes.

© Copyright 2015 AccessNorthGa.com Joint Meeting with Gainesville City School Board Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 6:00 PM Administration Building, Board Room 300 Henry Ward Way, 3rd Floor Gainesville, GA 30501 Mitchell works with with children through the school system and in active in the community, inlcuding doing maintenance work at Sisu (formerly Challenged Child and Friends) for a number of years and mentoring children over the past 20 or more years. Mitchell said he decided to continue his decades-long track with the school board when he looked at the data of kids in the school system in poverty, and felt that they, as a board, had tools to help those kids even more.