Since her election to the board in April 2014, Fort has enlightened patrons through her probing questions during the televised board meetings and has provided the dissenting votes on a number of board decisions questioning the fiscal responsibility of those decisions.
Fort wrote the following message on the campaign website:
Everybody! I ask that you go and "like" my friend Jennifer Martucci's Facebook page. Jennifer is running for Board of Education and I am confident she will make an excellent addition to the BOE.
She has my support to aid in the vision we all share!
Debbie
The other candidates for the one-year term are Melinda Campbell and Nancy Good.
The boe needs four votes to make major changes.
ReplyDeleteThree to four is infinitely better than zero to seven.
DeleteI don't really care for the Martucci piece in this. I don't trust Lawyers and she' married to one.
ReplyDeletePlease, dear God, no more Bright Futures sycophants on the Joplin BOE, please. Bright Futures is an ineffective placebo. Its proponents offer it up as an elixir to fighting poverty. Meanwhile, youth indicators have only worsened on its watch. This program saps resources that could be otherwise used for evidence-based programming and engages the business community in a way that allows them to eschew the real responsibilities they should shoulder. The program is a farce and I hope that voters support the BOE candidates who question it.
ReplyDeleteWhen Joplin was redistricting what elementary schools fed into the three middle schools, Jennifer Martucci was a vocal challenger to the changes. In the process of defending her position she said many things about North Middle School that were egregious and not true. Her comments were charged by emotion. Her comments were irresponsible. I know many educators at North that were offended and enraged by her falsehoods. I do not think Jennifer Martucci will be a good school board member. I will not be voting for her.
ReplyDeleteI think she had a real problem with the poor kids coming over to her rich kids school.
ReplyDeleteA big "no thank you" to this. Sorry Fort, this is a no go! Try another stooge!
ReplyDeleteI think she was part of the group that said they would help defeat any attempt to combine Columbia and West Central into one school. rude
ReplyDeleteShe has a child going to private school out of the system.......isn't that why the last person left the board
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Martucci speaks her mind and has strong, well-grounded arguments. Of her opponents, one is utterly unqualified and the other will likely be taken to task in the upcoming release of the school board audit. I would prefer a school board member who is willing to take a clear stand -- even if it isn't politically popular -- rather than one who has mismanagement's blood on their hands.
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