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Antrim County-Boyne City Public School Board Member 6 Year Term {_getChooseLabel(this.selections.length)}

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    Clyde Payton
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    Joel T. Schraw
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    Mary Ann Towne
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    Lindsay Verwys
    (NP)

Biographical Information

Describe your background, experience and qualifications for this office and the reasons you are running for it.

What are the top 2 (or 3) priority issues that this office should address and what actions would you take regarding each of them?

Would you propose any actions that the school district should consider for student mental health and/or safety?

What do you think the short-and long-term priorities of the school board should be when it comes to integrating Artificial Intelligence safely and equitably into schools? How does the district maintain academic integrity using AI?

What can schools do to help promote both college-bound students and career/technical students?

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Phone 616-366-8441
Email mlverwys@gmail.com
Mailing Address 523 S. East St.
Boyne City, MI 49712
Occupation/Current Position Owner of Boyneland Vacation Rentals
Education Masters in Public Administration
race Caucasian
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One issue the board will keep facing is finding and keeping strong teachers and support staff. We are a rural district with a higher cost of living, so recruiting here is harder than it is in many other places. Another is carrying out the 2025 bond voters approved for CTE space, elementary upgrades, buses, technology, and athletics. The board needs to keep those projects on time and on budget, and make sure the new spaces are used to give students more opportunity. We also need to keep strengthening student pathways. Dual enrollment and CTE are already working. We should support options for college, the trades, and local jobs, not treat them as competing choices.
Boyne City Public Schools is a wonderful district that works hard to help every student feel included and supported. Programs that are already in place—the Rambler Wellness School-Based Health Center, school counselors, anti-bullying policy, and the newly completed Portrait of a Rambler focus on being caring, safe, and compassionate—deserve continued board support. If elected, I would focus on strengthening those existing efforts rather than starting from scratch
AI is advancing quickly, and our students will use it as adults. We should teach students to use it well, honestly, and with good judgment.
We also need to keep strengthening student's future pathways into adulthood. Dual enrollment and CTE are already working. We should support options for college, the trades, and local jobs, not treat them as competing choices.
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