Dan Brosgol: Candidate for Re-election to the Bedford School Committee

December 14, 2017

Submitted by Daniel H. Brosgol

Dan Brosgol announced that he will be a candidate for reelection to the School Committee in 2018 – Courtesy image (c) all rights reserved

Voters of Bedford:

I am excited to announce that I will be seeking a caucus nomination at the Bedford Town Caucus on Tuesday, January 9 to begin the process of running for re-election to the Bedford School Committee for a second term.

When I ran for School Committee in 2015 my goal was to offer whatever knowledge and skills I had to a committee and a district that already had strong leadership and an excellent reputation. Over the past three years, I have been proud to serve on the School Committee along with a wonderful and bright group of fellow members who collectively share a commitment to the students and families of the Bedford Public Schools while appreciating that supporting them requires that the entire town share in that commitment.

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It has been an important three years since I first joined the School Committee. We commissioned a student enrollment study that confirmed the need for additions at the Davis and Lane Schools, we added staffing positions to support school-to-school transitions for our students, we took a hard look at our testing results and found areas to improve and add resources to instruction, we launched in-house special education programs to serve students who would otherwise have been sent out of the Bedford school district—and did all of that (and more) each year within the parameters and guidelines put forth by the town’s Finance Committee.

The next three years will no doubt hold a host of new questions and issues for the School Committee to grapple with. We will need to evaluate construction and renovation options at John Glenn Middle School and Bedford High School, continue to keep a close eye on the growth of the student population in relation to new housing projects in town, track the rollout of MCAS 2.0 and study the results from the new tests, evolve our in-district special education programs as they continue to grow, monitor student stress levels and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, and keep finding ways to prepare our students for a world in which the skills they will need become more and more complex. Luckily, we will continue to do that work alongside a superintendent and school leaders who work together every day to make sure we continue to provide our students with a world-class education.

Since my election, in addition to my work on the School Committee, I have served two full years on the Capital Expenditure Committee and on the Youth and Family Services Committee, and am in my second year on the Youth Task Force. In Bedford, it does take everyone working together to maintain the excellence of our schools, and I see that kind of cooperation and coordination in action time and time again when I work with and speak to members on other town boards and committees. The strength of our schools is one of Bedford’s defining features, and I know that the entire town shares an interest in maintaining that standard of excellence.

My wife and I frequently reflect on how lucky we are to live in Bedford and to have our five children learning in the town’s schools; this is a wonderful place to live and to be raising our children. I would welcome the opportunity to serve another term on School Committee as a way of expressing my thanks.

I ask for your support at the Town Caucus and at the polls on March 11.

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