I am Jeremy Starritt and I am running for Place 5 on the Frisco School Board.

I believe that I bring a fresh and diverse view of education that will help Frisco ISD better meet the needs of our ever growing district and city. My background is in Education and I have lived and worked in educational systems all over the world and hold a Masters in Education. I have taught learners from kindergarten to college in such varying areas as a rural community in West Africa, a Polish school system, a middle school on the Navajo Nation, to our local college students at Collin County Community College. I have also held leadership roles in educational institutions such as Director of Education at a refugee camp and a director of a Head Start center in Dallas.

Currently I,

• Live and work in Frisco and interact with the schools and FISD staff members on a daily basis.
• Environmental Chair for Frisco PTA
• Environmental Chair for Area 15 PTA (in which Frisco PTA falls)
• Work for the City of Frisco as the Environmental Education Coordinator
• Adjunct Professor at Collin County Community College
• Spin Instructor at LA Fitness in Frisco
• Full time student at University of Denver, earning my Masters in Environmental Policy and Project Management
• Member of Gunstream Elementary Site-based Management Decision Team

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With the increased state ranking standards last year, Frisco ISD fell from our well-expected Recognized ranking to a ranking of Academically Acceptable. The main reason for this fall was the inability of the district to meet the needs of African American and economically challenged student populations in Science. There are many other factors that go into the formula of rankings, but overall this demonstrates that FISD must grow in order to meet the needs of our increasingly global population.

I am a firm believer that every student is an individual on a unique path towards adulthood. Students have specific goals and needs which they have set for themselves and their future. The addition of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is a good first step by the FISD’s desire to help meet the needs of students wanting technical as well as conventional forms of learning. This is an awesome milestone for our district and I believe, will become a staple of all the educational programs in our future. However, with this said, the CTE program will also have a large number of consumables which will need to be repurchased every year. As our district increases in size and the amount of high school students increases, the need for more CTE programs will become inevitable. This could eventually end in a very high price tag handed over to tax payers. My plan to create partnerships with local businesses in order to give our students more experience and training while cutting the district’s need to solely support all programs financially will help alleviate these possible tax increases.

FISD has always been a front runner for school districts in environmental friendly practices. Through a partnership with the City of Frisco Environmental Services, they won Best Environmental Education program for a school district from Keep Texas Beautiful. With new technologies and strategies, there is much more I would like to help the district accomplish.

One of the first things which I noticed when I began working with the FISD schools was the strong sense of community. When walking the hallways with administrators, I am extremely impressed with their ability to know each student by name and be able to tell a quick anecdote about some recent accomplishment. These types of relationships are heavily influenced by the belief that smaller schools are more beneficial for student learning.