Kyle Frank: Candidate profile
Bio
Name: Kyle Frank
City: Skokie
Office sought: Trustee Oakton Community College
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Family: Single
Occupation: Trained attorney working as a consultant.
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Civic involvement: Glenview Chamber of Commerce, Trustee of Oakton Community College.
Previous elected offices held: Trustee Oakton Community College
Incumbent: If yes, when were first elected? Yes First elected 2013.
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Issue questions
Describe your vision for the primary role of a community college. Community Colleges should be in service Associate Degrees, and Vocational Certificates. In addition, we need to work on dual credit with feeder high school districts on topics not offered be the Advanced Placement Programs. Examples include Calculous 3, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. Plus we should offer certificate programs in high school like the welding program being implemented in Evanston and Niles Townships. Some states allow Community Colleges to offer Bachelor's Degrees.
How well is your community college fulfilling that role? What changes, if any, need to be made?
We are on the right track. We are moving in the right direction. We are offering more dual credit and working with high school districts to align our curriculums to improve our completion rates.
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? I am not employed by a school district. I am not retired either. I have no children. No relatives are employed by any school district.
Is a tax rate increase needed and, if so, how do you justify it? Please note: state funding is deteriorating, Our assessed valuation has not returned to 2007 levels.
Community colleges provide many services to a diverse population. Is there a service your college should be providing that it is not, or reaching a segment of the population that it is not?
Oakton is reaching out to diverse populations, especially African Americans. Three of our top executives are African American.
Please note: state funding is deteriorating, Our assessed valuation has not returned to 2007 levels.