{"id":503,"date":"2016-02-27T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T06:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/?p=503"},"modified":"2016-03-01T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:00:12","slug":"retired-principal-supports-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/2016\/02\/27\/retired-principal-supports-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired principal supports Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #a10303;\">by Barbara Manfredi, Former Principal at Bridge Elementary School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am writing to endorse the candidacy of Eileen Jay for School Committee.\u00a0 She is an outstanding candidate and I can personally attest to her excellent qualifications.\u00a0 As a Bridge parent, Eileen volunteered for years in her two sons&#8217; classrooms and enhanced the curriculum.\u00a0 Her passion for the Lexington Public Schools was apparent from the beginning. Eileen demonstrated her commitment to students and how they learn.\u00a0 Eileen has a rich background in educational research.\u00a0 She understands the challenges facing Lexington.\u00a0 Eileen is a thoughtful, reasonable woman who advocates for all of our students.<\/p>\n<p>There are many important educational and fiscal decisions to be made and Eileen has the leadership and executive skills to be involved in those decisions.\u00a0 Eileen is smart and collaborative.\u00a0 She will provide the necessary balance that the School Committee needs in order to be successful.\u00a0 Eileen understands the key areas of need and will work toward accomplishing the mutual goals of the group.<\/p>\n<p>I wholeheartedly support Eileen Jay\u2019s candidacy and hope you will join me in casting one of your two votes for her on March 1<sup>st.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Manfredi, Retired Bridge Elementary School Principal<br \/>\nTaft Avenue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Barbara Manfredi, Former Principal at Bridge Elementary School I am writing to endorse the candidacy of Eileen Jay for School Committee.\u00a0 She is an outstanding candidate and I can personally attest to her excellent qualifications.\u00a0 As a Bridge parent, Eileen volunteered for years in her two sons&#8217; classrooms and enhanced the curriculum.\u00a0 Her passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayforschoolcommittee.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}