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Our Core Message (An introduction, A reminder)
Compassion * Competence * Moral Courage
Willa Powell brings her 21-year Army Reserve career experience to the Board of Education. This includes the discipline to seek out the facts, incorporate human needs into a bureaucratic institution, and speak the truth in all circumstances. Willa’s four children are all enrolled in, or have graduated from, city schools.
Center for Disability Rights Questionnaire (2011)
2011 Election Disability Issues Survey For School Board Candidates 1. Describe your personal experience and involvement with students with disabilities? I’m not really comfortable with using close family friendships to curry favor with constituent groups. I share this only because it profoundly expanded my understanding of the roles and responsibilities of public schools. My daughter’s godmother gave birth to a daughter with (in laymen’s terms) “tri-chromosomal birth defect”. Nora was not expected to live, barely surviving the birth itself. At 13, she is now the oldest living person with this genetic condition, and she has attended School 29 since pre-school. […]
Mayoral Control and Maintenance of Effort
City of Rochester Aid to Education A White Paper on the legal and fiscal relationship between the City of Rochester and the Rochester City School District January 16, 2007 Compiled by Commissioner Willa Powell Executive Summary The overall purpose of this paper is to demonstrate through an orderly progression from theory to practice, that the City should carefully consider its approach to the question of aid to education as the City develops its budget. The first point, made in Section 1, is that the District is a separate legal entity, with its own governance for a reason. In 1917, The […]
