All five candidates elected to the Austin ISD board of trustees on Tuesday have worked in public education, and four are former district employees. | beckyfogel
in the election. He expects the newly elected trustees’ firsthand experience in the classroom to shape how they develop policy, especially as the district continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As a teacher, in the classroom recently, I would watch board meetings sometimes and it would be frustrating to me,” he said. “I feel like sometimes the board would ask good questions and approach subjects with good intentions but that there was much information they were missing from the implementation of the policies they were discussing.”
Similar to Gonzales and Hunter, Board Secretary Arati Singh sees the newly elected trustees’ experience in public education as a significant strength.
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