Incumbent Gillenson Not Averse to New Ideas
Josh Gillenson, a board member since 2000, believes he brings a valuable combination of experience and openness to new ideas.
Josh Gillenson’s been a board member for over a decade, but he says his views are still evolving. “I very much consider myself to be somebody who is amenable to change and has changed.,” said Gillenson, who recently became a school bus driver after working in a wide range of education and social service-oriented jobs over the course of his career. “I’ve come to look at my own development as still being a work in progress and me as still being on a learning curve.” In recent years, as state money has gotten tight and budget cuts have become necessary, Gillenson said he’s made decisions that he never fathomed he’d be able to support when he was first elected, like cutting the special education program’s extended school year by one-third or …
