School Committee Candidate Profile: Bill O'Keefe

Name: William "Bill" O'Keefe Jr.  

Age: 41  

Occupation: Attorney  

Incumbent?: Yes

Previous Elected Experience: Elected to School Committee in 2009

If re-elected to the school committee, what would your top priority be?

Technology needs to be the top issue. When you listen to Senior School Administrators, they believe that teachers and students should be able to get by a few more years with their "chisel and tablet" philosophy. When Senior School Committee members and Senior School Administrators rely on taxpayer money to fuel their annual trips around the region a couple times of year you have to realize what the priorities are and it is not the advancement of student technology. Senior School Committee members has taken close to 10K for travel, expenses, and conferences. Why do I say this? That is 10 white boards for classrooms. 20 computers for the classrooms. 25 IPADs. 500 mouse and keyboards. So when you hear there is no money is there no money or no priorities? The children are waiting.