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Clay Alumbaugh
Alumbaugh has 39 years experience in education and has been a Math teacher and school counselor having worked at Dulles, Clements and Kempner High Schools. He said he “heeded the call for an experienced educator and manager to join the board and give it some balance in these hard economic times” and also said, “the board has lost touch with the community and its employees.”
He acknowledges what he says is the district’s nearly three consecutive years of first ever record deficits and says he can help get the budget back on track. He said that the school board should first be about educating students, which can only be done if the system is not in constant financial turmoil.
Deficit spending, the Global Science Center, the jobs to be eliminated, and lack of someone on the board to ask questions are among his concerns. With reductions in personnel inevitable, he states that he thinks it is important for students, teachers and support personnel not to be the ones absorbing all of the cuts and that the administration at the top should not be exempt from tightening their belts.
Alumbaugh said that being frugal is one thing he brings to the board of trustees. He said he has spent $500 of his own on the campaign and does not ask nor accept donations...
