{"id":20329,"date":"2013-09-13T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20329"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:09:06","slug":"board-of-education-district-2-monika-johnson-hostler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/voter-guide-2013\/2013\/09\/13\/board-of-education-district-2-monika-johnson-hostler\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake School Board District 2: Monika Johnson-Hostler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monika Johnson-Hostler<\/center><\/strong>
\n\"TomBenton\"<\/a>
\nDistrict: Wake School Board, District 2
\nAge: 38
\nOccupation: Executive Director of the nonprofit North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
\nCity of Residence: Raleigh
\nIncumbent: No
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Do you have children in the district? If so, explain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do have a 7-year-old daughter who is a rising third grader. She is currently not in school in the district we live in. She\u2019s actually in school in proximity to my husband\u2019s school, so that she is in a feeder school to his school.<\/p>\n

The school board has been divided over partisan politics in recent years. How do you think that’s affected how the district has been run?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I definitely think politics and partisanship have played a part in the school board overall decision-making body. I like the current change. We\u2019ve seen some current changes, but I think the makeup has been made up of folks with politics, ideologies that may not necessarily represent all the districts that they represent individually, which makes sense because the district. Once you\u2019re elected you become a full active school board member for the entire county. But I think it\u2019s important that elected officials maintain listening to their constituents in their district, and I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s what has happened. And so for me, I think what\u2019s important is we see a little bit of more movement of that by watching the school board. Elected officials were not at the time hearing what their constituents needed. Which is why a large part of my initiative is remembering that my career and skill-set bring to the table that I know how to listen to constituents and facilitate those conversations. <\/p>\n

What do you think about the current reassignment plan and what would you do, if anything to change it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current reassignment plan is in progress and it has changed, that\u2019s what I\u2019ll say, since the new board was elected in 2011. So, I definitely think the current place we\u2019re in is forward movement in the right place, you know, placing the emphasis on ensuring that we are shoring up magnet and non-magnet schools that have progressive, innovative programs that are going to give all kids, no matter magnet or non-magnet schools, the same opportunities, and so that\u2019s what\u2019s important to me about the changes. And in terms of assignment, it feels like we\u2019ve been able to see that the school board is moving toward what constituents are saying that they need and the biggest thing is they want their kid to finish where they start.<\/p>\n

What is your main priority for the new superintendent for the next year or two?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the main thing is to work with the school board and listen to the schools\u2019 teachers, principals and parents. And that\u2019s not a specific priority, because I think that priority should be driven by those stakeholders- the school board, the parents, the schools themselves, parents and teachers. But I think the number one priority should be decided based on all of those stakeholders determining the number one priority.<\/p>\n

Do you support the proposed school bond? And, if so, what are your priorities for spending that money?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, you know, what I\u2019ll say is, I know pieces of the school bond. I\u2019m just now getting my feet wet in this. But absolutely I support the decision to support the school bond largely because I\u2019m running in a large district. Garner is the largest part of the municipality in the district and having visited those schools, I can completely hear the voices of those constituents that I\u2019ve already met with and the need to upfit their schools there physically. But also they\u2019ve already started to make some of those changes with their programs, and so for me that spending starts in that place where people really need to see those changes that it\u2019s making sure that, again, that students who attend the schools in Garner have the same both physical and internal programming and resources that all the other schools do regardless of their magnet or non-magnet status. And so that\u2019s why I support the school bond because, again, it can be voted on and decisions have to be made how it would be spent, but I would definitely still make Garner a priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monika Johnson-Hostler District: Wake School Board, District 2 Age: 38 Occupation: Executive Director of the nonprofit North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault City of Residence: Raleigh Incumbent: No Facebook Twitter Website Do you have children in the district? If so, explain. I do have a 7-year-old daughter who is a rising third grader. She is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1389],"tags":[310,1399,1397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}