Broward: Shelly Solomon Running for School Board

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FYI has four children in the Broward public schools, all of them with IEPs.

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Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:28 PMSubject: Please share this with your contacts, family, friends, and even your holiday lists. Thank you so much for your support.To: Solomon

Absentee Ballot AlertIf you requested an absentee ballot for this very important election then you should know the ballot is extremely long, and it will take even more postage then the August absentee ballot.  TO HAVE YOUR VOTE COUNTED MAKE SURE POSTAGE OF $1.50 IS PLACED ON THE BALLOT AND THAT YOU SIGN THE OUTSIDE OF THE BALLOT BY THE RED X. If you fail to place the correct amount of postage or you fail to sign the outside of the ballot, your vote WILL NOT COUNT.

The Supervisor of Elections should have mailed you your absentee ballot by now. If you have not received it yet, please contact the Supervisor of Elections athttp://www.browardsoe.org/. 

 

Your vote for your School Board member matters!

If like most people, you vote for President, Senator and then as the ballot seems to get longer; you simply stop voting. The scary statistic is that over half the people who vote in this election, more than half will not complete the ballot. I am a candidate to represent you on our School Board,. I want to tell you why you should care about who will represent you on our School Board, and why I am your best choice.

You should care. . .

Our School System belongs to all of us: parents, grandparents, students, business executives, employers, employees, Municipal City Governments, and every Broward resident in every walk of life. It affects just about every facet of our community. Better schools means better everything: better community, better government, better jobs, better public servants, better quality of life – that’s why you should care about who will represent you on our School Board.

Your best choice -  Solomon

Like you, I have read about the financial mismanagement and the ethical lapses in our public school system. Like many of you, I have children in public school (2 in High School and 2 in middle) so I know that we must do better.

In my years of community advocacy on many school and district committees, I have seen firsthand the school system’s layers of mismanagement, ethical lapses and incompetence smothering pockets of excellence. There are some really good people working in our public school system, but too often their efforts are thwarted by bureaucratic nonsense. The solution is simple – empower the pockets of excellence,overcome the bureaucracy.

When I saw the problem of school bullying, I partnered with some of those pockets of excellence, Co-Chaired the Broward County Anti-Bullying Task Force and co-wroteFlorida’s first and one of the Nation’s strongest Anti-Bullying Policies by sweeping away the bureaucratic barriers. I know it can be done, because we did it.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can make a difference, in fact it is the only thing that ever has”

We need to make excellence a standard – not a goal. We need to demand results, not best efforts. The success of our Anti-Bullying efforts teaches me that we can do it! Your vote for your School Board member matters. Join me and together we will make a difference!

Vote for  Solomon because experience matters and trust is earned - not bought.   Thank you.

Education

UCLA 1987 Magna Cum Laude, BA Political Science

Nova University Law School 1991, Magna Cum Laude

Admitted to the Florida Bar, 1992

Professional Athlete

All American/Athlete award 2 years in Tennis

Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) – World Ranked 60, 81-82

WTA Board of Directors, Player’s representative

Certified Professional Tennis Pro USPTA

School Based Community Service

Grass roots Broward County School parent and advocate since 2001

Parent Teacher Association (PTA) member at Park Trails Elementary, Westglades Middle School and Stoneman

PTA legislative Chair at Park Trails Elementary

School Advisory Forum member at Park Trails Elementary, Westglades Middle and Stoneman

2 Year SAF chair at Park Trails Elementary

SAF chair at Westglades Middle

Safety SAF Chair at Westglades Middle

School Advisory Council (SAC) voting member Park Trails Elementary

SAC voting member at Westglades Middle School

SAC voting member at Stoneman High School

North Area Advisory Council representing the Schools where I chaired SAF

North Area Steering member

Bylaws Committee Chair SAF Park Trails

Bylaws Committee member SAF Westglades Middle

Bylaws Committee member North Area Advisory Council

Bylaws Committee member District Advisory Council (DAC)

Appointed to District Advisory Council

Co-Chair Vision and BMI Screening, Park Trails Elementary

Vision and BMI screening committee member, Westglades Middle School

Board appointee to various Qualification Selection Evaluation Committee (QSEC)

Broward Days member advocating in Tallahassee for Adequate Funding of Public Education

Core Team of the PTA Midnight Bus Ride to Tallahassee (Rally to Tally) Advocating with thousands of students, parents, teachers, Principals, community members, Superintendents, on the Capital steps for Adequate Funding of Public Education, attending many meetings with Legislators

Started the grass-roots movement to implement an anti-bullying policy, and through her efforts, brought forth a motion for district wide and School Board approval of creating an anti-bullying policy

Co-Chair of the District’s Anti-Bullying Task Force which authored the Broward County Bullying Policy, a model for the State and other States in the Nation. The Broward County Anti-Bullying Policy was the first one passed in Florida after the Florida State passed a law, named after , a child who committed suicide after being bullied. (2008)

Awarded the North Area Crystal Apple Award for her work in this area (2008)

Original Member of the Parkland Education Advisory Board

Member of the Coral Springs Parent Education Committee

Contact me

My website is http://shellysolomon.com/ and you can contact me by email atshellysolomonjd@... or mobile phone at .

This email is an official communication from a Candidate for Public Office and does not represent in any way a commercial solicitation. Political Advertisement paid for and approved by Solomon, Non Partisan, for School Board District 4.

Make sure your vote is counted and turn in your Absentee Ballots Today!Early voting is October 27 - November 3, 2012Visit www.BrowardSOE.org for more information

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