Ron Stoloff: Endorsed by
the Montgomery County Democratic Committee
I retired after 35 years as a high school teacher and received a BS from Temple University and a MS Beaver/Arcadia. I have been married 26 years and a resident of Blue Bell for 16 years. I volunteer in an organization that provides recycled computers to students and others.
While teaching I was extensively involved in reform movements and applying technology in the classroom.
I think it is key that someone with actual classroom experience be on the Board.
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From the Ambler Gazette, May 10, 2013, by Eric Devlin
Ron Stoloff, 67, of Blue Bell, is a retired Philadelphia school teacher who taught social studies for 35 years. He has a bachelor’s degree from Temple University and a master’s degree from Beaver College (now Arcadia University).
Stoloff said he’s running for the board because he’s lived in the area for 19 years and wants the school district to be great and doesn’t want a board that will waste taxpayer dollars.
“These are critical times for our district as we are finally moving out of debt and discussion is beginning on rebuilding our high school and middle school — costs that potentially will burden us for decades to come,” he said. “This decision must be made carefully so we don’t miss any opportunities this decision presents us.”
Stoloff said he is qualified to be a board member because he has spent his life in education.
“I taught in Philadelphia for 35 years in two of the more challenging high schools,” he said. “I realized that my students were not performing up to their potential and because of this became involved in many educational reform plans. It was often easy to see that what some ‘reformers’ touted as the ‘answer’ was not going to do the job and that the school would be spending thousands of dollars of scarce resources for nothing. While not all of the programs I took part in succeeded, virtually all of the ones I rejected failed. Was this some uncanny prescience on my part? No. It was experience.”
He said he will bring experience from the school and classroom to the board room.
“I am the only candidate who has ever taught,” he said. “We need someone who knows what’s going on in a classroom on our school board and I am that person. I don’t advocate that all the board members be teachers any more than they should all be business people or accountants. But someone needs to be able to shed a bit of light on how a classroom works.”
His top priorities if elected, he said, would be fiscal responsibility, school safety, bringing schools into the 21st century, quality education for students and closing the achievement gap.
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