Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
To the Editor:
January is School Board Recognition Month — a time to salute the work of our volunteer school board members and to celebrate public education.
The theme, “School Boards Lead Strong,” reflects our combined commitment to leadership and accountability assuring that all children succeed.
It’s an exciting and challenging time in public education. School board members in Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District develop policies and make tough decisions that help shape the future of our education system. They bear responsibility for annual budgets, students, employees and buildings. They are citizens whose decisions affect our children and build our communities.
Our board of education, and the hundreds like it across the state, preserve the core of our democracy — public education. They ensure that decisions on school programming are made by people we’ve elected to represent our community’s values, culture and circumstances.
Showing appreciation for the important work of school boards should be a year-round process, but too often we neglect to recognize the dedication and hard work of these men and women who represent us. This January, the staff and students of our district are asking all members of the community to take a moment and thank a school board member.
Thank you to the men and women who dedicate countless personal hours to ensure the needs of our community are met by our public schools. We salute the public servants of Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District whose dedication and civic responsibility make local control of public schools in our community possible. We applaud them for their vision and voice to prepare today’s students to be tomorrow’s leaders.
The men and women serving Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District are: Russell Bailey, James Fyfe, Bruce Kerkove, Edwin Martinson, Clarence Minkin, Dennis Morin, Bill Steiger (new member) and Ann Wuorinen.
Bruce F. Mayle
Superintendent
Gogebic-Ontonagon
Intermediate School District