Paul Schlichtman
2004 President, Massachusetts Association of School Committees

Paul Schlichtman served as President of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees in 2004. As President, Mr. Schlichtman was an activist who focused his presidency on strengthening the voice of school committee members across the Commonwealth.

Mr. Schlichtman completed ten years of school committee service for the Town of Arlington in 2007. He served four years as a member of the Minuteman Regional Vocational-Technical School Committee before his election to the Arlington School Committee in 2001. He has served as chair, vice-chair, and secretary to the Arlington School Committee. He served on the Superintendent Search, Budget, Curriculum Instruction and Assessment, Community Relations, and Policies and Procedures subcommittees. He chose not to seek re-election at the completion of his term in April, 2007.

Mr. Schlichtman was an active participant on the MASC Board of Directors for eight years, serving in 2003 as the Association's President-Elect, and formerly as Vice Chair and Chair of Division II. He has served as Chair of the MASC Resolutions and Nominations subcommittee. He has also served as a member of NSBA's Federal Relations Network, as a delegate to the NSBA Delegate Assembly, and is a member of the Governor's Local Government Advisory Council. As a MASC Life Member, he continues to serve as a member of the Advocacy and Regional School subcommittees.

Mr. Schlichtman served for three years as a member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Local Government. He is currently serving on the state's Special Commission to Investigate and Study Middle Education in the Commonwealth. He is also the National School Board Association representative to the Education Commission of the States - Wallace Foundation Data Informed Decision Making Leadership Issue Group.

To give MASC a stronger policy voice on Beacon Hill, he formed the association's Advocacy Committee, which is charged with organizing support and advancing the legislative agenda adopted at the association's Annual Meeting.

As a district administrator and a former classroom teacher (elementary and high school mathematics), Mr. Schlichtman has a wealth of experience in school finance, curriculum, and student assessment issues. His experience provides him with an understanding of the relationship between policy and practice in public education. A graduate of the City University of New York and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he is currently Coordinator of Research, Testing and Assessment for the Lowell Public Schools.

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