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Thad Mayfield
|Thad Mayfield
|Board member, DeKalb County Board of Education, District 9
|Former member
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|July 22, 2014
|March 13, 2013
|Appointed by
|Governor Nathan Deal
|Term limits
|Prior offices
|South DeKalb New/More Schools Initiative
|1985 - 1990
|Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity
|1989 - 1993
|Tougaloo College
|Mercer University
|Management consultant
|Office website
|(dead link) Campaign website
His District 9 seat was eliminated in the May 2014 election when the board shrunk from nine to seven seats.[1] He was first appointed to the board by Governor Nathan Deal on March 13, 2013.[2]
Prior to Mayfield's appointment, Governor Deal removed six members of the DeKalb Board of Education from office after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed the school district under "accredited probation" status. This was due to an audit that revealed issues with board governance, unethical practices and fiscal mismanagement.[3]
Thad Mayfield resides in DeKalb County, Georgia. Mayfield received his B.A. in political science from Tougaloo College earning his M.B.A. from Mercer University. He spent 10 years working for AT&T as an account executive and business portfolio manager and another six years as a sales and customer business manager with Guoxin Lucent Technologies Network Technologies.
Since 1998, Mayfield has been employed as a senior partner with FOCOM, Inc., which is a business management and consultant firm.[4] From 1985 to 1990, he served as a member of the South DeKalb New/More Schools Initiative grassroots initiative. He also served three terms as a member of the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity from 1989 to 1993.[5]
Thad Mayfield and Vickie B. Turner defeated challengers Pia Bhatti, Jesse Cunningham and R. Alexander Fitzhugh for the District 5 seat in the general election on May 20, 2014. Although the District 5 seat normally carries a four-year term, this election was for a two-year term. Turner defeated Mayfield in the runoff election on July 22, 2014.[6]
Cunningham was the District 5 member of the board from 2006 to February 2013.[7] He was removed from office by Governor Nathan Deal, who appointed Mayfield to replace him.[2]
Runoff election
|DeKalb County School District, District 5 Runoff Election, 2-year term, 2014
|Vote %
|Vickie B. Turner
|Thad Mayfield Incumbent
|Total Votes
|Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary/General Nonpartisan/Special Election - July 22, 2014," accessed February 23, 2015
General election
|DeKalb County School District, District 5 General Election, 2-year term, 2014
|Vote %
|Thad Mayfield Incumbent
|Vickie B. Turner
|Jesse Cunningham
|R. Alexander Fitzhugh
|Pia Bhatti
|Total Votes
|Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary/General Nonpartisan/Special Election - May 20, 2014," accessed July 10, 2014
Mayfield reported $1,173.00 in contributions and $798.56 in expenditures to the DeKalb County Department of Voter Registration and Elections, which left his campaign with $374.44 on hand.[8]
Mayfield did not receive any endorsements during the election.
Campaign themes
Mayfield published a list of his priorities on his campaign website:
|Vision: A DeKalb County school system that ensures all students master critical skills and cultivate their natural abilities, in a safe and open environment that maximizes the quality of their learning experience.
Mission: Create a high performing school system
A) Create a school system that strengthens the student-teacher bond and makes it easy for parents and communities to work with each school.
B) Build strong parent and community relationships with each school to get the ideas, volunteers, and funding needed to best equip our classrooms and prepare our students for a global future.
C) Strengthen our school system's leaders and administrators to make continuous improvements in academics and to be more responsive to the DeKalb community, at the least practical cost to tax payers.
Immediate Priorities: 1) Increase graduation rates with confirmed students results, 2) Implement a measurable school system strategic plan, 3) Implement results driven parent and community engagement plan for each school, 4) Improve training and performance of school leaders and monitoring of entire system 5) Collaborate to implement proactive economic development and tax base management plans[9]
—Thad Mayfield campaign website, (2014)[10]
In an interview with 90.1 WABE, Mayfield answered several questions outlining his campaign themes:
|Why should voters choose you? What makes you stand out as a candidate?
Voters should choose me because I care and I am committed. I am a collaborator and can support and get the support of my peers. Ultimately, I get positive results. Equally as important, I am visionary about the outlook for our children and our school system. Finally, among my challengers, I also uniquely understand the leadership and governance challenges of our county and believe I can contribute to a way forward.
What are some of the biggest educational challenges facing the district? How can you, as a board member, address those issues?
I think the biggest challenge facing our school district and constituents in District 5 is one of culture – multiple unaligned paradigms. We don't conduct ourselves as if we have a comprehensive and collective understanding of the challenges we face or the opportunities we have to overcome the challenges and excel, how we can and must collaborate, and consequently how to move forward. As a board member I believe I can help address those issues by first getting and sharing information based clarity about our performance as a District and how that performance impacts the quality of our daily lives. Secondly, I have a broad set of county-wide relationship that I believe can be convened to set a tone for common ground and mutual progress, instead of what appears to often a tone of mistrust, misaligned expectation, and zero-sum gamesmanship.
Until recently, DeKalb was on "accredited probation" due mainly to concerns about school board governance. The district recently improved its status to "accredited warned." But DeKalb still has a long way to go. As a board member, what will you do to ensure the district keeps improving?
The short answer to ensure the district keeps improving is to complete the 6 Required Actions (RA) the District has and establish a monitoring and reporting protocol for all fourteen RA for the next 3-5 years. During that time and for the long-term, I believe we need to integrate the criteria associated with the RAs and SACS standards into our District ongoing and routine evaluations of its performance in ways that show material impacts on academic, financial, Board, Administration output.
According to the Georgia School Boards Association, individual board members don't have the authority to make decisions about the district. That authority lies with the board as a whole. How will you work to ensure the board makes decisions together instead of pursuing individual agendas?
This is a fundamental question, my top priority following the academic and financial performance, culture of the District. The answer is essential to our success, not simply in mitigating the concerns of SACS, but in setting a cultural tone and accountability for high expectations and high performance.
I am actively working with board members off-line and in Board Retreats to address that very issue. My contribution to the effort is to encourage the Board as a body to establish a base set of standards that reflect our combined priorities from which to begin all deliberations and decisions/votes. I expect and certainly hope that this approach will begin to solidify our common ground and help to work through and resolve our differences.[9]
—90.1 WABE interview, (2014)[5]
In response to a questionnaire conducted by It's For Them - DeKalb, Mayfield answered several questions outlining his campaign themes:
|1. What is your understanding of the role of a school board member? In your answer, explain (1) the level of engagement that a board member should have in the affairs and operations of the district and, (2) the relationship between the board and district staff.
My understanding of the role of a school board member includes the following:
i.Set the vision and direction of the school district ii.Establish school district policies iii.Establish the budget for the school district iv.Hire the Superintendent
The level of engagement that a board member should have in the affairs and operation of the district should be one of strategic direction through the strategic plan, and oversight and accountability of the administration through the Superintendent for performance
b.The relationship between the board and district staff should be one of approving senior level staff assignments, cordial and professional in our interactions with all staff, and requests only through the Superintendent and/or as advised by the Superintendent
2. Explain your views on the current state of transparency of information at DCSD.
I believe the current state of transparency of information at DCSD needs improvement. The four major challenges are timeliness, completeness, and clarity of information communicated to the public and on occasions the timeliness of special reports requested by individual board members.
3. How would you inspire parents and other stakeholders to have confidence in DeKalb schools?
I would inspire parents and other stakeholders to have confidence in DeKalb schools by the following:
4. What skills, talents, and personality traits do you believe that you possess that would make you work effectively with the rest of the board to get things done?
Overall, the skills, talents, and personality traits that I believe I possess that would make me work effectively with the rest of the board are as follow:
5. How will you enhance the mix of skills and backgrounds on the board and help represent the diversity of the community?
I will enhance the mix of skills and backgrounds on the board and help represent the diversity of the community, as I already do, by reaching out to and engaging a broad spectrum of ideas and input from all segments of the DeKalb community. I will synthesize the best of that input in making as many decisions and votes I take as often possible. I will encourage all segments to actively participate in public forums and discussion as possible, including and perhaps especially those with English as a second language.
6. What do you see as the opportunities and threats facing the DeKalb school system?
I see a number of opportunities and threats facing the DeKalb school system, but the most significant ones to me are as follow:
7. Describe the achievement gap in this district. What causes it? What can be done?
Four DeKalb County schools received gold, silver or bronze medals in U.S. News's Best High Schools rankings. However, the system has a 59% overall graduation rate (lowest in metro Atlanta) and SchoolDigger ranks the district as # 134 of 162 in the state. I translate this to mean that DeKalb has the capability to a national high ranking school district when we align micro-level assessments and our resources (funding and trained personnel) with our own best practices.
8. The next school board will likely be tasked with selecting a new superintendent. What will you look for in a candidate?
In selecting a new superintendent, I will look for a candidate with competencies and proven skills and successes in governing and managing within large, complex education organizations (ex. K-12, collegiate); and a strong record of performance in academics, business management improvements, and parent and stakeholder engagement.
9. What is your experience with reviewing complicated budgets? How will you approach the district's budgetary process from a policy perspective?
My experience reviewing complicated budgets includes reviews during three terms on the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity and for the past 7 year as a current Commissioner on the Board of the Lithonia Housing Authority.
My corporate experience includes preparing budgets for AT&T sales and marketing organization and Lucent Technology budgeting for market management, and Product Research and Development. Both experiences included profitability planning and projections to support and justify the budgets. This means that I bring experiences to review, assess, and align the efficacy of budget expenditure.
I will approach the district's budgetary process from a policy perspective by adhere to current budgetary policy to ensure a balanced budget, and look to establish policies for quarterly review and alignment of the financial reviews with correlating academic and departmental performance.
10. What needs to be done to ensure the district regains full accreditation, without probation, and what is the role of the board in ensuring DCSD remains in excellent standings with SACS?
To ensure the district regains full accreditation, without probation, and remain in excellent standings with SACS I think the board needs to do the following three things:
a) Ensure that we complete outstanding Required Actions (RA) 3, 6, (new) 12, 13, and 14
b) Establish monitoring and reporting policies on the maintenance and performance by the District on all 14 RAs
c) Establishes clear definitions and policies on monitoring and reporting of the Districts health on all SACS accreditation standards, including how they are manifested in other District performance metrics such as academic and organizational performance[9]
—It's For Them questionnaire, (2014)[11]
About the district
- See also: DeKalb County School District, Georgia
DeKalb County outperformed the rest of Georgia in terms of higher education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 39.2 percent of DeKalb County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 27.8 percent for Georgia as a whole. The median household income in DeKalb County was $51,252 compared to $49,604 for the state of Georgia. The poverty rate in DeKalb County was 18.6 percent compared to 17.4 percent for the entire state.[12]
Note: The United States Census Bureau considers "Hispanic or Latino" to be a place of origin, not a race. Therefore, the Census allows citizens to report both their race and that they are from a "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin simultaneously. As a result, the percentages in each column of the racial demographics table will exceed 100 percent. Each column will add up to 100 percent after removing the "Hispanic or Latino" place of origin percentages, although rounding by the Census Bureau may make the total one- or two-tenths off from being exactly 100 percent.[15] This Ballotpedia page provides a more detailed explanation of how the Census Bureau handles race and ethnicity in its surveys.
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See also
External links
- DeKalb County School District
- Office website
- Campaign website (dead link)
- Facebook page
- LinkedIn page
- ↑ 90.1 WABE, "DeKalb School Board Races Draw Crowded Field," March 18, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Governor Nathan Deal - Office of the Governor, "Deal names new members of DeKalb County school board," March 13, 2013
- ↑ CBS Atlanta, "Governor Deal Suspends DeKalb School Board Members," February 25, 2013
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Thad Mayfield," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 90.1 WABE, "DeKalb School Board District 5 - Thad Mayfield (Incumbent)," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Big slate of candidates for crucial school board election," March 7, 2014
- ↑ Re-Elect Jesse "Jay" Cunningham, "About Jay Cunningham," accessed May 15, 2014
- ↑ DeKalb County, "Individual Campaign Contribution Disclosure Reports," accessed May 28, 2014
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.
- ↑ Thad Mayfield, "Vision," accessed July 15, 2014 (dead link) (dead link)
- ↑ It's For Them - DeKalb, "Candidate Name: Thad Mayfield," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 United States Census Bureau, "DeKalb County, Georgia," accessed May 8, 2014
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "ELSI Table Generator," accessed April 21, 2014
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State, "Current and Past Election Results," accessed May 8, 2014
- ↑ United States Census Bureau, "Frequently Asked Questions," accessed April 21, 2014
|2014 DeKalb County School District Elections
|DeKalb County, Georgia
|Election date:
|May 20, 2014
|District 1: • Stan Jester
District 2: • Incumbent, Marshall Orson • Don McChesney
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I tend to avoid making big deals too early in the season for a variety of reasons. For one, size matters -- sample size, that is. It is extremely foolhardy to project a player's total production after two or three games. A player may have benefited from a specific matchup and consequently be overvalued; see Andrea Bargnani after he horsewhipped the Golden State Warriors. Another problem is the coaches. Few are friends to fantasy owners, and at this time of year rotations are far from set in stone. Many players will see their minutes yo-yo as their coaches determine roles. Because so few games have been played, everyone's statistics are subject to being skewed. One poor start is magnified by making up one-third of the total games played. This is especially true in the percentage categories where a poor shooting night can send a player's field goal percentage to the nether realms.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't trade. Far from it. Indeed, if I took that attitude, this column would be ripped from my grip faster than you can say "Talented Mr. Roto." I am merely warning you not to read too much into the early-season results. On the other hand, I am advocating that you prompt your trade partners to do exactly this. Sell the exploits of players on your rosters and offer sympathy for the poor performances put forth by your opponents' players. It's called buying low and selling high. (You may have heard of this stratagem.)
Use whatever means you have necessary: e-mail box scores; post links to panic-stricken fan blogs on your league's message board; IM your intended victim, crowing about last night's sick line by Marc Gasol. You get the point. Don't wait for your trade partners to create their own perceptions. Help shape them yourself. Sometimes it's easy. Last week, I recommended buying Mehmet Okur. I still do. Yes, I know he hasn't blown up these first three games. This will make him even easier to acquire. Want some more ammunition? Check out the news icon next to Okur's name in ESPN leagues. You will see the following for Monday, Nov. 3: "Okur continues to be an offensive afterthought for the Jazz even with Deron Williams out of the lineup."
This is perfect. Not only does the spin trash Okur, it implies that he will have fewer looks when Williams comes back. With Deron driving and dishing, the exact opposite should happen. Okur should see better and more frequent looks as defenses sag, trying to keep Williams out of the lane. Tidbits like these are what you need to create a perception of bust for the players you target. Below is a list of players who I think are ripe for small sample-size exploitation.
Kevin Durant, SG/SF, Thunder: It's amazing to watch the hype disappear. Many fantasy pundits -- this one included -- pegged Durant for big numbers in his sophomore season. Suddenly I am getting e-mails and seeing message board posts asking, "What is wrong with Durant?" and "Durant is killing me!" If you see any such immoderate posts on your leagues' boards, it is your duty as a righteous fantasy owner to make the disconsolate owner an offer. It is the only considerate thing to do. Durant is yet another victim of small sample size. He is currently shooting 41.8 percent from the field. There are good reasons to expect this to change.
Last season, he shot 40.2 percent before the All-Star break. After the break, he shot 47.6 percent. The change came about in part because Durant cut way back on his 3-point shooting: 3.4 attempts per game pre-break and 1.2 after. Through three games, Durant has attempted three 3-pointers. Durant faces the Celtics tonight. Make your pitch before the game and hope the Celtics' defense smothers him.
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Luol Deng, SF, Bulls: If you manage to snare Deng this week, you should send him flowers, thanking him for his 1-point effort on Monday. This is the kind of game that sends fantasy owners running for cover. That's where you come in. Since his opening-game splash of 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting, Deng has been in a horrible shooting slump, connecting on just 6 of 31 field goals (19.4 percent). Deng is a career 47.8 percent shooter. Even last season, despite injuries and team morale issues, Deng shot 47.9 percent. The Bulls are going through growing pains. The sooner the players allow Derrick Rose to manage the offensive game, the better the numbers are going to be. Deng has been rushing his shots rather than letting them come to him. This will stop. And when it does, his fine career numbers will return and you will want him on your squad.
|Spencer Hawes is unlikely to continue at his current pace once Brad Miller returns to the lineup.
Quentin Richardson, SG/SF, Knicks: Consider Richardson the exact opposite of each of the players listed in the "Three I'm stealing" section. Q is burning up the strings at a 54.3 percent clip and hitting 3.0 3-pointers per game. For his career, Richardson has shot 39.9 percent from the field. Many folks are getting hyped about his reunion with Mike D'Antoni, under whom Q had his career-best numbers in 2004-05. Here's the thing: Even in that hallowed season, Richardson shot under 40 percent from the field. Play up the D'Antoni career resurgence theme and sell, sell, sell. There are other sources of 3-pointers out there and many won't torpedo your field goal percentage the way Richardson will.
Marc Gasol, C, Grizzlies: Sometimes it takes only a single game to create a market for a player. Gasol destroyed the Warriors on Monday night, putting up 27 points, 16 rebounds and 6 blocks on 9-of-11 shooting from both the field and the line. This is extreme stat inflation and owners who can spin this into a more proven asset will be well-rewarded. I do not think the younger and shaggier Gasol is a bust. Hardly. He was the MVP of the Spanish League last season and posted a double-double in his first NBA game facing Yao Ming. However, huge lines like what Gasol put up on the Warriors will be far from the norm. The Warriors are defenseless inside. Josh Boone had 17 points, 14 rebounds and 3 blocks against them on Nov. 1. Josh Boone? Marc Gasol is far better than Boone, but take this information as it is intended. The Warriors inflate numbers for centers and power forwards. Keep this information to your vest and pitch Gasol as the second coming of his brother.
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We have chronicled the downward spiral of heterosexual relations in America. Sadly, our political leaders seem deaf to real solutions and are instead putting up more roadblocks. For instance, in California the one-party dominated legislature held a hearing and unanimous committee vote on April 7th for Senate bill 967. SB 967 would require "affirmative consent" before sex between and man and a woman can occur on California college campuses. This appears to be the first tangible statewide success of a two decade long below-the-national-media-radar feminist movement to redefine American heterosexual relations that first began at obscure Antioch College .
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The prestigious University of California has already adopted the gist of this bill to regulate sexual assault investigations as policy for the sprawling 10 campus system. The New York Times reported in February that this new sexual code of behavior between men and women is spreading like wildfire on campuses across the nation through social media. The Sacramento Bee and the Daily Californian have lauded this view that sex be treated as "sexual assault" unless the participants discuss it "out loud" before sex, and "demonstrate they obtained verbal 'affirmative consent' before engaging in sexual activity." In other words, men will be assumed guilty of rape unless they can prove they sought clear verbal consent first.
Once this new definition of heterosexual relations becomes the norm for disciplinary action on college campuses, we can expect it to be gradually adopted as criminal code by state legislatures across the country. Apparently "The Look Of Love" and "bedroom eyes" are not enough in this new enlightened era. Will Notary Publics be on call 24-7 to make house calls to verify "positive legal consent"? Will married couples have to use their smart phones to keep a running record of positive verbal affirmations?
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Wales must avoid defeat against Australia at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday if they are to avoid a nightmare pool draw at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Defeats to Argentina, Samoa and New Zealand during a disastrous end of year campaign have seen Wales' International Rugby Board ranking slump and as a result they are on the verge of slipping into the third band of seeds for next month's World Cup draw.
A win or a draw against Australia would see them retain their place in the second band of seeds but another reverse will see them fall yet further and ensure they will have to play two of the sides ranked in the top eight in the pool stages of the next World Cup.
Victories for the top four sides in the world on Saturday guaranteed their top seeding with New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and France set to be kept apart in the early stages of the World Cup.
Ireland secured their place in the second group of seeds with victory over Argentina last weekend and England are also assured of their place in that bracket despite their defeat to South Africa. They will be joined by Samoa who made history this week by becoming the first Tier 2 nation to climb into the top eight in the world rankings. All three must accept that they will be drawn alongside one of the top four seeds.
Defeat for Wales would also be good news for Argentina. The Pumas' defeat to Ireland saw them fall to 9th in the ranking but a Wallabies victory in Cardiff would see them reclaim a place in the top eight and condemn the Welsh to a perilously difficult pool draw.
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