League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 6, 2007 Election
	Albert E. Brown Answers Questions Candidate for Board Member; Finneytown Local School District

The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
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Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office? (50 word limit)

Adult Education Director for Community Education & Employment Development Services, Established Computer Skills Training Program for at Risk Youth, Supplemental Educational Services Provider for the Ohio Department of Education, Adjunct Professor, College of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Assistant Director, UCAN, Pre-Tech Program, University College, University of Cincinnati, Head Start Computer COP Connection Program Director

2. What plans do you have to address your top three priorities? (100 word limit)

Facilitate school goals of striving for excellence in academics, arts, athletics, and community service initiatives. Establish benchmarks to measure whether the goals are being achieved. Explore whether and how students input and interests are recognized, considered and integrated into learning processes. Maximize family and community involvement in school activities. Focus on ensuring students and their families feel welcomed, connected, and safe on school campuses and that Finneytown schools are an essential and core component of the Finneytown community. Provide opportunities and easy access for continued staff development and create business relationships that will enable students' access to the most current technologies and innovations.

3. What is your position on amending the Ohio Constitution with regard to the funding of public schools? (150 word limit)?

I support the primary objectives of the school funding amendment, which guarantees a quality education for all students regardless of their categorical status, and reducing school funding reliance on property taxes. However, it is not clear that these objectives will be met with the current proposed amendment. Very much at issue to me is what constitutes a quality education, how those who are to determine quality standards will be selected, who will they be accountable to, and automatic costs increases to tax payers driven by inflation for education services that have been determined by authorities over which taxpayers will have no recourse. On face value, the proposed amendment addresses, what legislatures so far have failed to do, but with a seemingly unmanageable price tag and no warranties that quality, education will be achieved. I am in favor of many components of the amendment with some provisions for taxpayer recourse.

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