School District Releases Candidate Applications for Open Board Seat

As promised in the last school board meeting, the Lower Merion School District released the applications of the four candidates selected to be interviewed for the open Board of School Directors seat.

Virginia Overton Pollard, Frances McCombs, Lisa Hoffstein and Richard Rasansky will be interviewed separately at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 at Lower Merion High School. Their resumes and applications are attached to this article and available for viewing or download.

Each candidate was asked three questions:

1. What are your top three reasons for desiring to serve on the Lower Merion School District?
2. What are the three most important assets you will bring to the Board of the Lower Merion School District?
3. What do you think is the single, most important issue facing public education today?

After the interview process on Oct. 25, members of the public will have an opportunity to comment. Residents can also submit questions or comments for board consideration ahead of time to communitycomments@lmsd.org.

A member of the school board will nominate a candidate – who doesn't necessarily have to be one of the four interviewed – for the open position, and vote will be held. The selected candidate must receive five or more votes. If no candidate receives the required amount, additional votes will be taken until a candidate is chosen.