Gainesville Times

DJS CCDR 05_13_2022

Wants to raise teacher salaries, improve benefits and lighten their workload; “Teachers have so much on their plate now. We’ve got to get back to letting teachers teach school and take away everything else we can that interferes with their time for learning.”

Wants to provide new teachers with support and three years of mentoring.

- Wants to raise teacher salaries, improve benefits and lighten their workload; “Teachers have so much on their plate now. We’ve got to get back to letting teachers teach school and take away everything else we can that interferes with their time for learning.”
- Wants to provide new teachers with support and three years of mentoring.

Teacher Recruitment

School Curriculum

As of June 3, 2022, Debra Smith did not have a website or any information online.

College & Career Readiness

Debra Smith

LinkedIn

Supports developing and retaining teachers to "build lasting relationships in our communities and with our families."

Wants to ensure teachers’ pay, benefits, and retirement are "an attraction to come to and stay within the Hall County school district."

Supports extending how long employees are eligible for periodic step pay increases.

- Supports developing and retaining teachers to "build lasting relationships in our communities and with our families."
- Wants to ensure teachers’ pay, benefits, and retirement are "an attraction to come to and stay within the Hall County school district."
-  Supports extending how long employees are eligible for periodic step pay increases.

Wants to involve parents with the curriculum, but supports "a teacher’s right to some autonomy."

Wants to provide more support for non-English speaking students, namely the Hispanic community; “They’re expected to try to just gel right into the classroom, but I think we need to put things into place that would help those \[students],” he said.

- Wants to involve parents with the curriculum, but supports "a teacher’s right to some autonomy."
- Opposes Critical Race Theory.
- Wants to provide more support for non-English speaking students, namely the Hispanic community; “They’re expected to try to just gel right into the classroom, but I think we need to put things into place that would help those \[students],” he said.

As of June 3, 2022, Tim Glover’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Tim Glover

- The Board of Education runs the public school system. The Board of Education is entirely independent from the rest of the county government.
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day.
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.