BOE Candidate Snyder is Strong Leader Who Has Hands-on Experience as Career Educator
To the Editor:
This is our first letter to Town Topics and we are doing so to endorse Erica Snyder’s candidacy for a seat on the PPS Board of Education.
Erica’s daughter is classmates with our first-grade daughter at Community Park. We have always been impressed by Erica’s commitment to public service and her extensive experience as an educator. While working full time she nonetheless served as a co-president of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), helping facilitate community activities that immediately allowed new families like ours and so many others to feel at home at Community Park. Also, at a school with significant income disparities among its families, Erica oversaw fundraising initiatives that ensured that all families were able to participate fully in extracurricular activities regardless of their ability to pay. And she did this in the aftermath of the pandemic and the massive disruption this caused for the PTO and the rest of the community.
We appreciate that Erica is a lifelong educator. Isaac began his professional life as a high school teacher but lacked the mettle to do it for more than three years. Erica, on the other hand, has committed herself to being a stable and nurturing figure in the lives of children for decades. Before her current tenure as the director of the Cherry Hill Nursery School, Erica worked in diverse communities from rural Ecuador to South Side Chicago to Charlotte, North Carolina. These experiences will serve our community and our children well if Erica is elected to the PPS School Board.
Finally, we have experienced firsthand Erica’s fantastic communication skills. She has been a fixture at BOE meetings and Board Committee meetings and would provide invaluable information and insights about evolving district policies. Even better, she always finds the time to answer questions and help new families decipher the necessary but often arcane processes of PPS. Erica is fluent in Spanish, a key qualification in our diverse and multicultural district.
We are very excited to cast our votes for Erica this November and if you are looking for a strong leader who has the hands-on experience as a career educator and a demonstrated commitment to the children of our district, we would strongly urge you to also consider voting for Erica as well.