James Carl Lech - District 9
James Lech said he is running for the Metro School Board to help eliminate mediocrity in the public school system.
Watch InterviewAs a school Board member, he said he will fight, every day, to return high intellectual standards back to our schools. Lech has pledged to to visit each of the eleven schools in District 9 one day, every month of the school year for the next four years. Policy Objectives Increase Teacher Quality Raise the Academic Standards Create Neighborhood Schools Hire Teaching Assistants for the poorest performing classrooms Place a Vice-Principal in Every School, not just those with 500 or more students Increase the number of guidance counselors, and their support staff, in middle schools Place, at least one, school police officer in the Cohn Alternative Learning Center Resume
Director of Urban Planning for three middle Tenn. cities Director of the Nashville Chess Center (501c3) Chess teacher to over 3,000 children; over 1,000 hrs. in Nashville area schools Professor of Graduate Courses in Education at TSU Community Development Coordinator: TN Dept. of Economic and Community Development Supervisor for the Nashville 2000 Census Military Intelligence Analyst: US Air Force 1991-1994 Article Reviewer: Journal of Education Measurement West Chase Homeowners Assoc. Vice Pres. 2005-07 Doctor of Education from Peabody at Vanderbilt 2007 Masters of Theological Studies Vanderbilt Divinity 2000 Bachelors of Political Science Penn State 1998 Bachelors of Religious Studies Penn State 1998
Watch InterviewAs a school Board member, he said he will fight, every day, to return high intellectual standards back to our schools. Lech has pledged to to visit each of the eleven schools in District 9 one day, every month of the school year for the next four years. Policy Objectives Increase Teacher Quality Raise the Academic Standards Create Neighborhood Schools Hire Teaching Assistants for the poorest performing classrooms Place a Vice-Principal in Every School, not just those with 500 or more students Increase the number of guidance counselors, and their support staff, in middle schools Place, at least one, school police officer in the Cohn Alternative Learning Center Resume Director of Urban Planning for three middle Tenn. cities Director of the Nashville Chess Center (501c3) Chess teacher to over 3,000 children; over 1,000 hrs. in Nashville area schools Professor of Graduate Courses in Education at TSU Community Development Coordinator: TN Dept. of Economic and Community Development Supervisor for the Nashville 2000 Census Military Intelligence Analyst: US Air Force 1991-1994 Article Reviewer: Journal of Education Measurement West Chase Homeowners Assoc. Vice Pres. 2005-07 Doctor of Education from Peabody at Vanderbilt 2007 Masters of Theological Studies Vanderbilt Divinity 2000 Bachelors of Political Science Penn State 1998 Bachelors of Religious Studies Penn State 1998
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