Candidates tout qualifications for school board position

By Patty Montagno, Staff Writer - Sachse News

In a few months voters will be going to the polls to vote for School Board seats.

Because Sachse is in two counties, the city is serviced by the Garland and Wylie Independent School Districts.

For Garland ISD, on the ballot this year will be the Place 1 (incumbent Larry Glick), Place 2 (vacant) and Place 3 (incumbent Linda Griffin). All places are for three-year terms. Griffin and Glick have filed for another term. They are both unchallenged.

Charles Axe and Dwight Davis have filed for the Place 2 seat.

Axe is a consultant for the Texas State Teachers Association. Davis is a senior program manager for Hewlett-Packard. 

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Dwight Davis

Davis earned a master’s from Grace College.

He is a member of Texas House Representative Angie Chen Button’s Education Committee and served on the Walnut Glen Academy Campus Improvement Team. He formerly served as a board member for the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute.

Davis currently serves as the chief judge for the voter elections in his precinct and is actively involved in his community Neighborhood Association and the Grace Fellowship International Board.

“My decades of experience in Fortune 500 organizations involving government contracts, technical programs and finance management, provide me strong business knowledge and capabilities required for many of the GISD Board decisions,” he said. “I have been attending the GISD board meetings on a regular basis over the last six years and asking questions of educators; that has provided me a clear insight of the needs and requirements of GISD.”

Davis said his interest is in quality education for all children in order to develop future leaders that contribute to the needs of our society.

“I desire to be an active participant on the GISD board team to help set policy and make decisions for the best solutions to achieve and keep GISD as a top-rated district,” he said. Fiscal responsibility is a major concern. Funding requirements are crucial, especially with state funding losses in 2011.   The board must also plan for changing demographics, growth and diversity in various areas of the community. Changing and updating technology, as well as school facility upgrades, are important to best meet student needs and requirements. Additional school security and safety upgrades are also being considered.”

Davis said he is a professional and knowledgeable leader with a servant spirit and passion for excellence to serve his community in the best possible way by making decisions and solutions to achieve the maximum results.

“The most important part of serving on the school board is to be sure that you maintain a full commitment of time and quality decisions that will best represent Garland, Rowlett and Sachse to improve student education, with quality teachers and curriculum, with all the required tools and facilities,” he said. “Garland ISD has a family feel to it with many of the educators coming from the families that live in the area for generations.  This sense of family strength and pride has made GISD a wonderful place to educate out next generation. GISD is committed to maintaining excellence in education throughout the district, including the specific needs of Sachse. We need to make sure that our children have a safe nurturing environment that encourages them to learn and be their best in order to become successful and contributing members of our society.”

E-mail Dwight Davis for more information