Candidate: Karen Carpenter

435 Edwards Dr Sarasota FL 34243 941) 225-3893 kcarpen218@verizon.net http://www.VoteKarenCarpenter.com Qualified: a life working to improve the lives of children and families, as volunteer, nonprofit director and business leader Building a Better Future for Everyone Results: great schools that prepare students to be responsible, caring citizens who have gained relevant knowledge and skills so that they succeed in a rapidly changing workplace. Accountability: for everyone—parents, students, staff, teachers, administrators, school board; measuring student progress and teacher effectiveness Transparency: in budgeting and financial management to honor the taxpayers\' investment Current responsibilities: Member, Governor\'s Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Advisory Council Statewide Workgroup on Family Strengthening. Community Service Volunteer, Americorps*VISTA Mentor, Take Stock in Children Scholarship Program Education Chair, League of Women Voters, Manatee County Volunteer Mothers Helping Mothers Trustee,, Theodore Edson Parker Foundation Past: Executive Director, Women\'s Resource Center of Manatee County, Manatee Bankers for Affordable Housing, Foundation for Dreams, Board, Crosley Estate Foundation Consultant, Homeless Coalition, New College Education: attended public schools in Massachusetts received Procter & Gamble Scholarship to Wellesley College, BA 1965 MA, United States International University, San Diego, MA 1973 JD, Mass. School of Law at Andover, passed bar exam and admitted to practice in 2001 Parent, grandparent: both daughters attended public schools, as do grandchildren. One daughter is an assistant principal in the Boston Public Schools, one is in nonprofit management. Both have master\'s degrees.