[Update, 1/28/24:] Huzzah: A new-for-2024 School Board portrait has taken price of place on the School Board section of the Arlington Public Schools' Website!
[Update, 1/25/24:] Hope springs eternal every morning. But thus far, Arlington Public Schools still hasn't removed its out-of-date School Board photo.
[Update, 1/24/24:] Twenty-four hours later and the photo remains up on the Arlington Public Schools' Website.
[Original coverage, 1/23/24:]
Few Arlington School Board members have made it two full terms of late, and one apparently continues to hang around even after his term has expired, at least on the school system’s Website.
As of Jan. 22, the group photo of School Board members on the Arlington Public Schools Website continues to be one from 2022, taken when Reid Goldstein was serving as chair. Placed in the center, Goldstein is flanked by board members Cristina Diaz-Torres, David Priddy, Bethany Sutton and Mary Kadera.
The school system never swapped out a new photo with Diaz-Torres in the center after she succeeded Goldstein as chair. And while Goldstein’s term ended Dec. 31, 2023 – he was succeeded by Miranda Turner – no updated photo of the 2024 fivesome has been posted.
While Goldstein served two four-year terms, that length of tenure is becoming a rarity as School Board members head for the exits in rapid succession.
Among recent School Board members, Nancy Van Doren served six years before departing, while Tannia Talento and Monique O’Grady each tossed in the towel after only a single term.
The seats of Diaz-Torres and Priddy are on the ballot in November; each was elected in 2020 but each has decided not to seek a second four-year term.
