LJ Spasovski: Candidate Profile

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Note: Answers provided have not been edited for grammar, misspellings or typos. In some instances, candidate claims that could not be immediately verified have been omitted. Jump to:BioQA Bio City: Glen EllynWebsite: Candidate did not respond.Office sought: Glenbard Township High School District 87 School Board Age: Candidate did not respond.Family: Candidate did not respond.Occupation: Infornation TechnologyEducation: Candidate did not respond.Civic involvement: Candidate did not respond.Elected offices held: Candidate did not respond.Questions Answers How satisfied are you that your school district is adequately preparing students for the next stage in their lives, whether it be from elementary into high school or high school into college or full-time employment? What changes, if any, do you think need to be made?Is district ranked #1 in State? Is district ranked #1 in nation? If it is not then how anyone can be satisfied? We need to look deeply at what it takes to get to #1 position. What others are doing way better than these 4 schools in our district and wind a way to help them being ranked at the top. Being ranked around 1000th position is nothing that you can cheer or brag too much about. Everyone talks only about champions, no one pays too much attention to 2nd or 3rd.place, less about someone being 1000th. It is evident that year after year ratings of our schools are going down. Rankings are going down year after year. Why? What needs to change to stop the trend? Need to know the cause. What is driving those results? Whole blown study needs to be done and find the culprit(s). Without knowing what is triggering the downslide how you can propose a fix for it? Just throwing something out of brain doesn't help much. Deep analytics may provide some answers.What budgetary issues will your district have to confront during the next four years and what measures do you support to address them? If you believe cuts are necessary, be specific about programs and expenses that should be considered for reduction or elimination. On the income side, do you support any tax increases for local schools? Again, be specific.Budget will always be an issue like everywhere else. As long as State is in financial troubles all public schools will share the pain. This District will not be exempt from it. Any measures that will provide strong fiscal responsibility will be supported. In some cases law doesn't require districts to hold open bidding for services or goods. That's what law says, but law doesn't prohibit anyone from doing it other way. Need to look what is in best interest of taxpayers, how to protect their money. Cuts, tax increase, all that is a stuff that people of this district are always looking at. Without being behind the scene, knowing things that as public you doesn't know anything about it, nothing can be said upfront right now. Any decision is (or at least should be made) based on specific factors, needs, events, etcâ#128;brvbar; If someone, right now, says that supports or not cuts, supports or not increases, probably is just doing empty talk. Based on specific conditions, events, factors, decisions needs to be make. Nothing is static in this world and nothing is guaranteed also. As many learned in the past few years, a lot of changes can happen in very short period of time. Those kind of changes will trigger some responses, responses that some people will like it and some people may hate them. But if changes are done for the benefit of the district then population in this district may give a full support to those changes.Are you currently employed by or retired from a school district, if so, which one? Is any member of your direct family - spouse, child or child-in-law - employed by the school district where you are seeking a school board seat?No.As contract talks come up with various school employee groups -- teachers, support staff, etc. -- what posture should the school board take? Do you believe the district should ask for concessions from its employees, expect employee costs to stay about the same as they are now or provide increases in pay or benefits?All that depends on budget and what can really be counted on. Not on imaginary numbers, numbers that will never exist. In 2007/2008 we saw what imaginary numbers can do. If realistic numbers are used in all calculations then outcomes are always good and can be sustained. Key word, SUSTAINED. That should keep both sides happy for a long time.If your district had a superintendent or other administrator nearing retirement, would you support a substantial increase in his or her pay to help boost pension benefits? Why or why not?No comment. Need to know the pulse of taxpayers base. Board members are just simple plain delegates of the voters/taxpayers and needs to see and know what voters/taxpayers will support and what not. Board member should not impose its own wish, must see what delegate base wants and support.What other issues, if any, are important to you as a candidate for this office?First and foremost, student education. Everything else is second. Making possible that our kids can compete with any other high-school school districts in the nation, not just Illinois. When students graduate from District 87 high schools to be able to easy go to any university, to have accumulated knowledge to stand on same level with any other kids from all over the country. We don't want to produce students that can only find low pay jobs and suffer for the rest of their lives. Why not show to our kids what they can do when they spend little bit more time studying, little bit more using their brains and thinking little bit more now, which will payback a lot later in their lives when they be able to find high paid jobs and enjoy the rest of their life better without worrying how to meet end to end.Please name one current leader who most inspires you.Candidate did not respond.What's the biggest lesson you learned at home growing up?Candidate did not respond.If life gave you one do-over, what would you spend it on?Candidate did not respond.What was your favorite subject in school and how did it help you in later life?Candidate did not respond.If you could give your children only one piece of advice, what would it be?Candidate did not respond.