Mark J. Nuzzaco*
Office Sought: School Board Catoctin
Age: 57
Residence: Leesburg.
Education: BA, political science, Brigham Young University; JD, J.Reuben Clark Law School, BYU.
Occupation: Government affairs director, NPES (association for suppliers of printing, publishing and converting technologies).
Web site:http://www.nuzzacolcps.org
E-mail address: mark@nuzzacolcps.org
Offices and positions held: Member, Loudoun School Board, 2004-present, member, American Bar Association; member, Oregon State Bar; member, U.S. Supreme Court Bar; past president, Stone Bridge High School PTSO; member, Boy Scouts of America, past committee chairman, Troop 1168; member, Goose Creek Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Why should voters elect you?
I will continue working diligently to provide the most benefit for the greatest number, while preserving the interests of the individual student and family.
What do you think is the most urgent problem facing your jurisdiction?
The most critical issue facing Loudoun public schools today is continuing to provide excellent education during explosive growth in student population. To meet this challenge, I have supported respectful cooperation between the School Board and the Board of Supervisors that creatively and frugally manages the school budget. I also support a state-assisted audit to find further efficiencies. In addition to sound academics, I support safety, discipline, character development, civility and modesty in public schools.
What is your plan to address the traffic problems in Virginia?
Traffic congestion in northern Virginia is a quality of life issue that has wide-ranging consequences. One very serious effect is a lessening of the time that parents have to spend with their children. In this regard, it becomes an education issue in the larger sense. Therefore, as an education leader I favor greater efforts at the state level to return more northern Virginia tax dollars to the region to help provide desperately needed road improvements, thereby avoiding the need for counties to finance highway projects out of local property taxes at the expense of revenue needed to fund public education.
Do you think current policies governing growth & development in your area are too restrictive, not restrictive enough or just right?
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