Judy Le

I came into this role at the beginning of 2020, a famously eventful year by any measure. I had some sense of what the School Board did, of course, but I had to learn a lot very quickly, and make some very big and humbling decisions right away. Every year I serve, I continue to learn more about the needs of our students and communities and how I can better serve them.

I’m honored to represent schools that are very large and very small and everywhere in between. What I’ve found at each of them is a strong community — support staff, teachers, administrators, caregivers, and more — who are all working to support our students.

After my first meeting, one of the other Board members said to me, "If you keep the kids at the heart of your decision-making, you can’t go wrong." And that has proved right so far.

We are making progress on closing opportunity gaps but still have much work to do. That is a top operational priority. We also have a high priority on ensuring we renovate our older buildings and address our capacity issues.

I am hopeful we can keep our eye on the ball in those two areas: opportunity gaps and capacity issues.