Local: Name of school board candidate has a familar ring
Posted in Local with tags District 150, Eyebrows McGee, Laure Petelle, School Board on November 23, 2008 by Billy DennisLaura Petelle, an attorney and a member of Illinois Central College faculty, will run for the Peoria School District 150 Board of Education. She is running for the 3rd District seat being vacated by Mary Spangler.
Regular readers of this blog might know her better as “Eyebrows McGee,” the name she uses on her blog.
My two cents: I’ve known Petelle for several years. She’s smart and funny. She’s very well educated and a one of those people who is always busy, yet who always tends to get things done.
She has a lot of common sense and will demand accountability from the district, as these blog posts indicate. And she has a background in journalism from her experience as a student newspaper editor at the University of Notre Dame. She’s not going to be making deals behind closed doors and she’s going to do a much better job communicating WITH constituents, a task that includes listening.
According to information, she’s going to be meeting with members of the parents group that fought off District 150’s efforts to shorten the school day for grade school students. That meeting will start at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Godfather’s Pizza located in the shopping center at Glen and Sheridan.
