A few weeks ago, a student posted a threat on social media to harm students in one of our county high schools. Within 90 minutes, law enforcement was taking that student into custody. This quick response was made possible by a strong partnership that now exists between local law enforcement and our school district.

When I was elected to the school board in April 2014, I learned that the School district was out of compliance on a law that required a district of our size to have an alternative school. Each year, the district, under direction of the school board, had been requesting a waiver on this law. Our school district had been out of compliance with this law since it elected to close the Simpson Alternative school a few years earlier

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