Answers: School Board

' The Gazette is creating a questionnaire for area school board candidates to complete in order to help voters get to know them and aid us in our endorsement process. What question would you like us to ask of candidates and why?

FROM OUR INBOX

How would you support teachers who voluntarily use their own money to buy materials for their classroom? Is there enough concern about inadequate state and local funding, and what can be done to provide appropriate money for each classroom, for each kid?

Tom F.

Shellsburg

Given that costs for everything keep growing and will continue to grow, how would you as a school board member reduce administrative costs for our area schools to maximize the total amount available for pupil education?

Michael J.

Cedar Rapids

Question 1: What are the specific problems you recognize in the Iowa school system? What goals would you establish to rectify these problems? What are the milestones to achieve those goals? How will you measure and make public your progress toward those goals and milestones and how will you follow up after the goals are attained?

Question 2: What are your goals to establish performance levels for teachers? How will you evaluate teacher's performance for adherence to those performance levels, and how will you appropriate compensation according to progress toward those performance levels?

Steve S.

Cedar Rapids

FROM FACEBOOK

' Steven G.: What classroom experience do you have? What type of primary or secondary school teaching experience do you have? Have you spent time sitting in a class at various grade levels? If you answer none or no, will you pledge to do so during your tenure?

' Rudolf S.: Do you support busing children in order to equalize percentages of free or reduced-price lunch participants at schools within a district?

' Eugene P.: Why is the district so administration-heavy?