May 10, 2016 Nancy Chamberlain Letter to School Board

Good Afternoon SB Directors,

I wanted to thank you for your gracious and respectful behavior toward all the students who have testified these last two SB meetings.  For many, public speaking is not easy, and you made their experience a positive one.

I also wanted to thank you for all of your diligent work, preparing for meetings, conducting numerous study sessions, and engaging in open discussions.  I continue to be impressed in the operations of this school board.

I am attaching a copy of my testimony from last night - due to computer issues, the legend to the two data tables was inadvertently left off.  I wanted you all to have the sources of my data and how I performed the calculations.

I will take this opportunity to reiterate that, although Option 3 is not the first choice of Save Our Challenge, it is an acceptable compromise to us.  Although it was our second choice recommendation in our report, it actually was not one of the ones the MSTF was considering until you, the school board, added it at the MSTF Academic Subcommittee study session.  It was formulated by you during the discussion toward the end of the study session, and was called "Model 4" at that time.  Since it was added by the school board, the full MSTF voted on it, and half of the MSTF found it to be an acceptable option, making it their number 2 option, as well as ours. 

Thus we believe Option 3, "designed" by the school board, vetted by the academic subcommittee, and approved by half of the task force, is a viable compromise option.  It would have the support of the community, and has the least implementation risk.

I urge you all to vote for Option 3 on May 24.

Thank you again for your work for the students of Northshore,

Nancy Chamberlain