What is the career path of a school trustee?
October 24, 2010 8:55 AM   Subscribe

What is the career path of a school trustee?

I am interested in eventually becoming a school trustee. I am involved informally in my own lobbying efforts on many fronts on a number of issues. I am part of the parents-teacher committee at my child's school. I have a solid management / entrepreneurial background, but my real passion is in helping the system change and to make the system works as it is intended to do. I live in a major Canadian city where there are political parties at the school board level. What is the typical path to getting on the school board? Should I be pursuing a political party now, or going after district committee membership or is there some other means of moving up? Should I be volunteering to help one of the local school trustees? I'm not sure what would be the past way to approach this. Thanks.

(Anonymous because I don't need to have this in the archives later, for obvious reasons.)
posted by anonymous to Law & Government (3 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
If you're in SK you could go back and read posts from earlier in the year by/leave a comment for Tim at Canadian Dream. He ran and won school board trustee earlier this year, in Regina I believe, and one of his cobloggers' wife is running now.
posted by jamesonandwater at 9:41 AM on October 24, 2010


Call up a school trustee and ask them. A trustee who shares your vision would be a good place to start. You don't have to give your name. Call several. Or find a local politician who started as a school trustee and ask them. Many politicians came through the school trustee route. Or call up the education columnist at your local paper and ask them.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 12:49 PM on October 24, 2010


Start going to the meetings. Be civil to everyone you meet. Volunteer for the grotty little jobs no one wants to do.
posted by Bruce H. at 10:02 PM on October 24, 2010


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