Nora Louis Lindsey

Current roles

• Allen ISD Board of Trustees: School Board Trustee

Former roles

• Allen ISD Board of Trustees: School Board Trustee candidate

Campaign contributions

No individual contributions that precede the May 2007 election cycle have been reported by this official since the beginning of 2005.

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Pegasus News campaign survey (March 29, 2007)

What is the one greatest thing that the Allen ISD Board of Trustees has achieved in the past year? 
The emphasis that the Allen Board of Trustees has placed on both teacher salary and on the need for a higher percentage of teacher retention is one of the best things that they could have done for the students of Allen. The need to attract the brightest and best teachers available and the need for continuity of instruction by retaining good teachers over a period of years is a basic essential in an educational system.

What is the single biggest improvement that the Allen ISD Board of Trustees needs? 
The present Allen trustees are doing a great job at looking at and considering the needs of this growing district. Probably the need of boards throughout Texas would be to really communicate with the entire staff and with their constituents. I find our present board to be quite open and I would hope that both staff persons and regular citizens will continue to feel free to express their concerns to either the board as a whole or to individual members. Openness of communication is an essential element in good government.

What is the toughest problem that you have ever solved?
The problem presented to me by the accidental death of my husband. He was killed suddenly in the crash of his private plane and I became a single mom with four girls ranging in age from 16 to 2 years old. I had to learn to be a good teacher, mom and to juggle everything required to run a household myself. This was in 1973 many years before doing this was just considered an ordinary part of life. Three of those four girls have gone on to be successful educators and the other is an educator in that she is bringing up three children ages five, four and three. I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to accomplish this and to have been able to give 43 years of my life to education.

If you are elected and can only achieve ONE quantifiable thing in your term, what would you want it to be?    
I would like to see some of the stress put upon our children to succeed in school relieved, so that learning can be returned to a pleasurable experience and school become a place that most kids want to be. I would like to help reduce the number of high stakes tests that a student has by 25% at the end of my term.