About this site

I am currently a Governing Board Member of the San Carlos School District, elected November 2007 and again in November 2011. I created this site to keep in touch with folks who want to know more about what is happening in the District and what it's like to be a Trustee.

Please note that ANY OPINION EXPRESSED HERE IS PURELY PERSONAL AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT OFFICIAL POSITIONS OR POLICY OF THE SAN CARLOS SCHOOL DISTRICT NOR THE OPINION OF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THE BOARD.

I encourage everyone to visit the District web site as well as attend School Board meetings.

Note that I reserve the right to edit, reject, or delete posts based on spelling, grammar, readability, or my judgment of what is appropriate discourse.

 

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Doing our Homework

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 [...]

November 19th, 2011 | Category: Education | Leave a comment

Filling Two Vacancies

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 [...]

November 13th, 2011 | Category: Community | Leave a comment

Victory, and Next Steps…

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 [...]

November 9th, 2011 | Category: Community, Reflections | 3 comments