{"id":4745,"date":"2020-05-01T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:37:22","slug":"thank-you-board-member-dr-chris-mcginley-for-your-service-to-the-board-and-to-the-students-of-the-school-district-of-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/2020\/05\/01\/thank-you-board-member-dr-chris-mcginley-for-your-service-to-the-board-and-to-the-students-of-the-school-district-of-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Board Member Dr. Chris McGinley for Your Service to the Board and to the students of the School District of Philadelphia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2020\/05\/Copy-of-Chris-McGinley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4755 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2020\/05\/Copy-of-Chris-McGinley-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2020\/05\/Copy-of-Chris-McGinley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2020\/05\/Copy-of-Chris-McGinley.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It is with real sadness that we are saying goodbye to Dr. Chris McGinley as a member of the Board of Education. I had the privilege of co-chairing the Student Achievement Committee with Dr. McGinley, and it proved to be an invaluable experience.<\/p>\n<p>As a career educator from a family of career educators, Dr. McGinley has worked in schools across the city and has served in myriad roles within education.<\/p>\n<p>During his career, he has served as a special education teacher, principal, cluster leader, superintendent, professor and, of course, as a member of the School Reform Commission and Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>His experiences and knowledge about Philadelphia schools have been a tremendous resource to each of us as Board Members.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, his service on both the School Reform Commission and the Board of Education was instrumental in bringing about the transition to local control and ensuring there was a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of my fellow Board Members, I would like to take this moment to thank you for your tireless advocacy and dedication to Philadelphia schools. There is a reason why you earned the title of \u201cBadass Educator.\u201d\u00a0 Your incredible passion and dedication to serving the most under-served populations is the torch we will carry in your stead. We will miss you and wish you the best.<\/p>\n<p><em>By: Dr. Angela McIver, Board Member<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with real sadness that we are saying goodbye to Dr. Chris McGinley as a member of the Board of Education. I had the privilege of co-chairing the Student Achievement Committee with Dr. McGinley, and it proved to be an invaluable experience. As a career educator from a family of career educators, Dr. McGinley&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button minimal\"><a class=\"learnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/2020\/05\/01\/thank-you-board-member-dr-chris-mcginley-for-your-service-to-the-board-and-to-the-students-of-the-school-district-of-philadelphia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}