I write this letter today as a private citizen. This year’s race for Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School Committee is contested, with three candidates, including Cara Endyke-Doran, the current Chair, running for one of the two open positions. Lincoln’s vote for Cara this year is *extremely critical* in ensuring a balance of views on the Committee, long-lens institutional perspective in School Committee deliberations, thoughtful discussions regarding the Regional Agreement and a focus on how Lincoln and Sudbury can best support our regional high school. I hope residents had a chance to attend the Candidates Forum this past Wednesday or are able to view it online. Please also and remember to vote on Monday, March 28 in the Reed (Brooks) gym at Lincoln School.
I am formally endorsing Cara Endyke-Doran for re-election to the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School Committee. Cara has worked in the international public health sector for many years; she has a dual Masters in Public Health and Nursing. She is also the parent of four children, two of whom have graduated from LSRHS and two who are students there. Cara has leaned into both her professional credentials and her own parenting experiences throughout the COVID pandemic. Her calm and attentive leadership has shepherded the LSSC and the District through these last two years with grounded information and clear communication to constituents. Cara’s hard work and commitment have helped LSRHS to continue educating our high schoolers, to support more acute social and emotional needs arising from the pandemic and to keep students and staff as protected from the virus as possible. Cara led the COVID-19 testing sub-committee at the onset of the pandemic during her very first year on the Committee. Through her strong advocacy, LS was one of the first schools in the State to offer COVID-19 testing to all its students and staff. The School Committee has accomplished a great deal over the past three years, hiring an excellent Director of Finance and Operations in Kirsteen Patterson, reviewing and revising the complete School Committee policy manual, and considering new and amended LSRHS curricula in an increasingly global and mindful context. This year, the School Committee successfully negotiated a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that considers well what is fair in the context of annual budgeting alongside.the talents of our terrific LSRHS faculty and staff. In this late/post-COVID environment, where teachers and school administrators across the US are leaving their jobs, permanently, in droves, striking a relational and equitable balance and reinforcing the quality of teaching and commitment of time to our students, all of this is vital. And there is always more to do. Cara’s continued, committed leadership, given her initiative and accrued understanding of process and knowledge of School Committee governance, will be an asset for both towns. Cara is committed to Lincoln-Sudbury and has ensured the Committee is operating in the best interest of our students, staff, parents and broader communities. She has respectfully listened and taken into account the sometimes widely differing perspectives from the three communities of Lincoln, Sudbury, and Boston, as well as our commonalities, how we understand and appreciate LSRHS day-to-day. Nancy Marshall
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