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Subdistrict 9, which includes midtown Omaha, spans an area from roughly Grant Street south to Leavenworth Street and from 72nd Street east to 38th Street.


I btw glad Mona isnt running again. it is time she and Sophir

and also in 2012 (Drickey and Jensen and Borer all go)

I btw am a Marian Fey supporter (for the record) and was at one time a Mona McGregor supporter.



Candidates spell out visions - Omaha.com

Candidates spell out visions
By Michaela Saunders
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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Two parents with children in the Omaha Public Schools are competing to win an open school board seat in the Nov. 2 general election.



Incumbent Mona McGregor, who has served 14 years on the board, is not running for re-election. Seeking her Subdistrict 9 seat are Marian Fey, 42, and Dave Schinzel, 46.

Both say the district is at a crossroads, but their visions for the district's next steps are markedly different.

Fey has been an active voice on matters affecting OPS since the 2005 “one city, one school district” push. She was president of a citizens group that supported the district, and she testified before the Legislature's Education Committee and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

She has four children, one a graduate of Omaha Central High School and three who still attend district schools.

Fey is artistic director of an arts nonprofit that works with OPS schools.

If elected to the board, she said her priority would be to find “new and creative ways to engage our families and community,” she said.

Fey said that she would look for savings in the district's budget, but her main emphasis would be the district's students.

“We can talk about dollars and saving here and saving there, but that's just part of it. I would rather take a step back, look at the bigger picture, (and determine) these are the overall goals for these 50,000 students,” Fey said.

“The priority has to be what goes into the classroom. What empowers the principal and engages the community?”

Schinzel believes OPS needs to take a hard look at itself to find economic efficiencies so that spending can be focused on the classroom.


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