Joel Ireland Receives Highest Award for School Board Members

NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Estella Zavala, 225-6437 
Posted on: December 16, 2005

TUSD Governing Board member Joel Ireland was recognized with the 2005 All-Arizona School Board award from the Arizona School Boards Association, also known as ASBA, on Thursday, Dec. 15 at an awards ceremony held in Phoenix.

Mr. Ireland was among five school board members from across the state--and the only one in Tucson--who received what is considered the association's highest honor for an individual board member. Awardees are nominated by their fellow board members and judged by a panel of their peers from across Arizona. Board members are selected based on the following criteria:

• proven records of active service on their school district governing board;
• leadership at the local, state and federal level;
• demonstrated concern for the district's children;
• rapport with fellow board members;
• commitment to a boardsmanship training and
• support for ASBA and its activities

The Arizona School Boards Association is a non-partisan, non-profit organization representing 260 all volunteer active and associate governing bodies of Arizona's public school districts. The organization provides a catalogue of resources for local governing boards and conducts several conferences and training activities annually for educating district governing board members about legal and practical issues confronting school boards. ASBA also is a federation member of the National School Boards Association. For more information, please visit: http://www.azsba.org/

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