Making good on her first promise

During her campaign for office, Joanne Hurley promised she'd be a full-time Pasco County School Board member if elected.

Now that she's sworn in, Hurley tells the Gradebook that her days of service to Florida's Turnpike Enterprise are numbered.

"My last day is Dec. 12," Hurley said, adding that she'll be spending many of the intervening days on vacation tending to board business anyway.

After that, she's all yours. And Hurley said she plans to keep another of her promises, talking to lots of residents, visiting schools and responding to the loads of e-mails she expects to get about school district issues.

Somewhere out there, a retired Marge Whaley (whom Hurley replaced) is smiling.

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Comments

How do we get a hold of you? The District doesn't have enough respect to even post your picture on the internet yet! Hello, Joanne, if this was for the Supt race, things would be changed already....get used to it.

[Me]

You go, girl! Don't back down and promise yourself that you won't fall into the good ole' boy society. I say this because it is live and well in Pasco County Schools. Before you make a decision ask yourself if you were a parent of a child in today's schools, what would you want? Who do you want being a leader in the schools? How about in the classroom? etc...