Donovan Walling

Candidate for MCCSC School Board, District 4  

Currently an independent writer and editorial consultant, a senior consultant at the Center for Civic Education in Calabasas, California and a seasonal assessment administrator of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Walling earned a BS in education from Kansas State Teachers College in 1970 and a masters in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1975.

He's been a teacher and administrator in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin area school district, the director of instructional services at Carmel Clay schools in Indiana and the director of publications for Phi Delta Kappa International in Bloomington from 1993-2006.

"Local control is the biggest issue facing MCCSC in the sense that local control encompasses a number of related issues, all manifest in our local community…Nowhere is the loss of local control more egregious than in the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, which the state mandates and which provides low-quality information that is misused to make high-stakes decisions about students’ achievement, placement, and future as well as unfounded decisions about teacher and school quality.”

— Matthew Glowicki