HOGAN for Sudbury Public School Committee

Please join me in supporting Christine Hogan for Sudbury Public School Committee. In the past, Sudbury flourished with a reputation as a community that placed a high value on education.   Unfortunately, we are now witnessing a slow and steady deterioration of a major cornerstone of what makes Sudbury great.  This year’s election is critically important for the future of our town, schools, teachers, parents and more importantly, our children.  It is critical that we choose carefully, and understand fully, what has transpired over the past few years.

Current SPSC leadership supports administration to such a degree that teachers and parents feel marginalized, makes excuses to justify and downplay a four year trending decline in MCAS scores, and uses apparently ineffective policies to justify decisions rather than rely on reason and common sense judgement.  

Whether one supports MCAS standardized testing or not, the results are used universally and is the ONLY measurable and comparative state-wide data available. Recently, the incumbents have asserted the reasons for Sudbury’s decline are the low-income and special needs subsets. This sounds like misplaced blame and is an insult to our teachers, parents and students. Or, are they suggesting that only children of wealthier homes can be successful because they have access to outside private support or have better parents? Or are they telling us that our school district is unable to successfully educate these children?   The current chair of SPS, Rich Robison, is the Executive Director of an organization that deals specifically with children with special needs.  One would think this area would experience a much higher performance rather than persistently underperforming.

Recent school rankings by Boston.com display dramatic drops in Sudbury since 2012.  For example, Nixon 3rd grade math dropped 382 positions from 105th  to 487th and 3rd grade English dropped from 51st to 151st.  This is the kind of data that directly impacts the community as a whole. Are we better under the current leadership of Rich Robison and Ellen Winer Joachim? That's the question you need to ask. 

Rather than rely on misplaced blame or ineffective policy, Christine Hogan has the professional experience, strength of character, passion, commitment and drive to provide the effective leadership that will take the necessary actions to bring our schools back to the high standards we all deserve so that many more generations will be proud to call Sudbury home.  

Please, VOTE for Christine Hogan!

 Siobhan Hullinger