Schools
Getting Into the Board Room
Patch compiled the essential information about the four candidates who applied for a spot on the Menlo Park City School Board for you, including their statements of purpose.

The Menlo Park City School District will interview four candidates for one open spot on the Board of Education this Tuesday.
Here's who they are, at-a-glance:
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- Parent of four children who went to schools in the district
- Former Chair of Oak Knoll Site Council
- Has Stanford MBA, Masters in Education
- Works at Teachscape
- Parent of special needs child at Oak Knoll
- Former International Relationship Officer with Citigroup
- Has law degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
- Small business owner
Pam Larkin
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- Parent of 5th and 6th grade boys in the district
- Former co-chair of Encinal Site Council
- Classroom volunteer
- Served on District Strategic Planning Committee
Jeffrey B. Child
- On the City of Menlo Park's Finance and Audit Committee
- Former president of the Menlo Park City School District Board of Education
- Former Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation Treasurer
- Works at Amerigroup
We inserted links to their LinkedIn profiles, as we could. (Not everyone has one.) To read more about why this spot on the Board became vacant, .
Read their statements of purpose by clicking on the .pdfs that are underneath the image of the gavel.
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