Corrigan for school board

Rob Corrigan is the clear choice for the Sisters School Board.

Corrigan’s resumé is impressive — Harvard degree, executive of several Silicon Valley technology firms — but voters need look no further than his track record here in Sisters schools.

Corrigan has been involved as a volunteer in the elementary school computer lab, as a board member of the Sisters Schools Foundation and has led the local effort to lobby Salem so more teachers are not lost from our classrooms. As a regular attendee at school board meetings, he is intimately familiar with the challenges and opportunities that face the district. There will be no learning curve for this new board member.

In fact, Corrigan has already done a lot of heavy lifting for the school board. In the debate over moving the fifth grade to alleviate crowding at Sisters Elementary School, it was demographic data compiled and analyzed by Corrigan that gave substance and real context to the discussion. Those skills will improve the curriculum and achieve results.

Corrigan’s opponent, Jeff Haken, never attended a school board meeting until after he filed to run. While he displays great energy and enthusiasm, he is inexperienced and his ideas are not well thought out. There may be a day when Haken can serve effectively, but he is now only just beginning while Corrigan has been effectively at work for a couple of years.

Corrigan has demonstrated that he is an effective communicator, a thinker who can bring his ideas to fruition and a skilled consensus builder. All of those qualities are exactly those needed in a school board member and Sisters voters should give him the job.

Jim Cornelius, News Editor

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Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.

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