Mentor CARES Builds a Home for Hope

Maggie Cook is a fierce advocate for special education. As a speech language pathologist in the schools she seeks evidenced based approaches to life long learning for students. See her comments when she was interviewed about Mentor CARES a House of Hope

Channel 5 Cleveland and Fox 8 News Covers Book Policy and Interview Board President Maggie Cook

Some community members would like books removed from our school libraries. Maggie Cook proposed a policy that gave parents the power to control what their child checks out in the library. Parents are automatically emailed when a child takes out a book. If a parent opts into our restricted check out system, the book is put on hold until the parent signs a permission slip for the child to take out the book. This eliminates the need for parents to worry about students reading content that they don't want their children to read and also protects the freedoms for other students and parents to have access to materials they find important to them.  This new policy replaced a policy that did not respect parental rights and did not solve concerns. The policy it replaced was not feasible and resulted in multiple book challenges which divided our community. Since this policy was adopted there have not been book challenges. You can watch Channel 5 and Fox 8 coverage when they interviewed Maggie Cook here:

Channel 5 Cleveland Video Coverage

Election 2021: Maggie Cook, Virginia Jeschelnig win seats on Mentor School Board

Endorsed by MTA/MCE

Maggie Cook has been endorsed by the Mentor Teacher's Association and Mentor Classified Employees.  These two organizations represent 1000 working members including our district teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, secretaries, educational assistants, maintenance workers, and mechanics.  These professionals are dedicated to the excellence of Mentor Schools and they support Maggie Cook for Mentor School Board November 2nd!  

As Schools Close to Coronavirus, Special Educators Turn to Tele-Therapy

Maggie Cook understands how important it is that our students have in person learning opportunities during a pandemic because she has been educating though the pandemic.  Cook was interviewed by Education Week, a national education magazine 

Check out the 3/31/2020 article: http://bit.ly/EdWeek_03312020