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Opt-Out Leader Turning Sights

To Electing Allies To CCS Board

Kim Jastremski, a leader of the opt-out movement in Cooperstown, has put her support behind three candidates for the CCS board.  (allotsego.com photo)
Kim Jastremski, a leader of the opt-out movement in Cooperstown, has put her support behind three candidates for the CCS board. (allotsego.com photo)

COOPERSTOWN – Buoyed by an apparent collapse in support for the Common Core in the Cooperstown Central School District, opt-out leaders are turning their focus on the Tuesday, May 19, school board elections.

“My feeling is that Cooperstown doesn’t want to see business as usual, and want to see people who support the test-refusal movement and people interested in considering faculty concerns and faculty working-place environment,” said local opt-out leader Kim Jastremski, “to help serve the needs of the children.”

The deadline for petitions to run for school board was Monday, April 20, and Jastremski said she and her group are supporting SUNY Oneonta professor Trevor Fuller, Cooperstown; Tabetha Rathbone, Delaware Otsego Corp. vice president and CFO, Hartwick, and parent Laurie Williams, Cooperstown, who were active in the anti-Common Core fervor that broke into the open locally in early March.

That would pit Fuller, Rathbone and Williams against Anthony Scalici, Cooperstown, who has served on the school board for almost 20 years, often as president; against incumbent Marcy Birch, Toddsville, entrepreneur and former school psychologist, and against newcomer Mary Bonderoff, Middlefield, SUNY Oneonta’s director of multicultural services.

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