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NATURE OR NURTURE?

Menin was born in the Bronx. His parents fled to the northern suburbs in the great mid-sixties diaspora.

An indifferent student prior to college, he was an early US participant in the International Baccalaureate program, passing the exams and earning the diploma. He has a Bachelor's/Master's in SpEd, and retains a license to teach K-8 and SpEd in NY /MA. He has a CAGS in Dispute Resolution from UMass.

A trained Montessori teacher, he has worked in Lower and Upper Elementary classrooms in two Montessori schools ; and has 10 years of classroom experience working with students up through middle school.

Much of his professional career has been in human services, including nearly 13 years as an Executive Director for a regional agency serving the homeless, and a start-up national association of consumer litigators. Currently the Executive Director of the Family Self-Sufficiency Center, Inc., in Salem, MA.

Bruce co-wrote several grants to help start the Newburyport Learning Enrichment Center & the Youth Commission, where he was the founding Chair. He has served on the Revenue Task Force Revenue, the Newburyport Youth Commission, the Skateboard Park Siting Task Force, and is in his third term on the School Committee.

A freelance writer for nearly 30 years, Menin has published locally and nationally. He has co-written plays that have been performed in Newburyport, and has seen his poetry and short stories in print and on the Internet. No one else has reported seeing them, however. He also spent five summers as a Naturalist on a whale watch boat running out of N.H.

Married with two children, and he has lived in Newburyport since 1991.

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Hey, Attorney Griffin- did I cover everything?

The Mission of a School Committee Member

I believe that public service is both a privilege and a responsibility. I have had the opportunity to serve for eightyears; I believe we are surprisingly close to restoring the Newburyport School system to the level it belongs at; providing the best possible education for all of the children of Newburyport. More than that, I believe that the Schools have a great deal to offer the larger community.

As a School Committee member, I have always been guided in my decisions by two important facts:

My constituents do not vote.

My role is try to address the needs of all the 2,ooo plus students in the system, and those few students placed outside the system in an equitable and proportional way.

According to the Educational Reform Act, it is the role of School Administrators to administrate, and for School Committees to set policy, budget resources, and ensure that the system has a vision of excellence.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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