Board of Education: Republican Beth A. Wolak

Having been a teacher in the New Haven Public Schools for the past 13 and one-half years, I think I have a perspective on education that is needed on any Board of Education. A teacher knows what is going on in the classroom, be it New Haven or Hamden.  

Teachers know what works and what does not work; they also know what is nonsense and what is real.  Some of the members of Boards of Education have no real idea what is going on in the educational environment.  They just sit on the board and run for election time after time.

I have lived in Hamden for most of my life; raising my children in Hamden.  All of my daughters went through the Hamden Schools and on to college; Yale, University of Pittsburgh and Southern Connecticut State University.  My oldest daughter is a Captain in the Air Force and a physician; my middle daughter is an artist and soon to be Mom; and my youngest daughter is an author and aspiring actress.  My husband is an assistant corporate counsel in New Haven.

I would very much like to serve on the Board of Education and I appreciate this opportunity to give a little perspective on my life.

Thank you.

Beth A. Wolak