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By James David Dickson
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Six le for school board

Larry Murphy Ahmar Iqbal Ann Arbor schools are strong but could be better. He believes that with strengthened ties with community partners, like the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor can offer something special to its students. Another part of the equation, Iqbal said, will be for the district to benchmark itself against the best of the best. Patrick Leonard is a University of Michigan graduate and a lifelong Ann Arbor resident, according to a local media outlet. Leonard has kept a relatively low profile thus far, though he did file petitions. Scio Township auto parts supplier Larry Murphy is a graduate of the University of Michigan and of Columbia University who believes that Ann Arbor Public Schools should prioritize teachers and classroom learning above all, especially above administration and overhead. One of his ideas is to consolidate Stone and Clemente high Andy Thomas schools. Stone High School will return in the fall as the Ann Arbor Technical High School. Trustee Simone Lightfoot was named to the board in 2009 after a resignation. She has filed to defend her seat against an actual opponent for the first time, and paid the filing fee in lieu of signatures. Lightfoot has challenged the district for its failure to eliminate an achievement gap that neither the passage of time (decades) nor the spending of money (nearly half a million since 2005 on a consultant) has solved. Albert Howard has filed to run in November, also paying the filing fee. Unlike Iqbal and Murphy, who have become fixtures at board meetings, Howard and Leonard have had less of a public presence though Leonard did file petitions. Reached by phone on Tuesday night, Howard, a presidential candidate in 2008, and the father of eight children in the Simone Lightfoot

On the RAIL

The Ann Arbor City Council is considering an ordinance that would outlaw unnecessary idling in vehicles within city limits. If the ordinance passed, those non-exempt idlers can be ticketed a minimum of $100 if their idling is discovered by a police officer. The city was kind enough to put together a little informational packet on the proposed ordinance. It is written in Frequently Asked Questions format, as if the city expected to field a lot of queries on how unnecessary idling crept to the top of the City Councils priority list. The Ann Arbor Journal has reviewed the 17-page document to highlight the pertinent information. What would the ordinance require? In short, unoccupied vehicles can never be left idling. Occupied vehicles cant be left idling for more than five minutes. The ordinance only covers unnecessary idling. In cases of extreme weather, it explains, idling may actually be necessary. What is unnecessary idling? Parents lining the school grounds to pick up their children. Pulling over to take a cell phone call, and keeping the vehicle running. Waiting for a vehicle to warm up. The city is inclined to view unnecessary idling as a danger because it releases harmful pollutants into the air, consumes fuel, and causes wear and tear on vehicle components. City officials said that studies have shown elevated levels of benzene, a toxic substance, near school buildings. Vehicle exhaust can help cause afflictions like asthma and emphysema. Whats the penalty? $100 minimum fine for personal vehicles, $500 minimum for the owners of commercial vehicles, such as taxicabs, and $100 minimum fines for the operators of commercial vehicles. But the city insists the proposed idling ban is primarily an educational program and there will be a purely educational six-month grace period between passage and enactment of the ordinance. The city will use that time to educate drivers, specifically in areas where idling

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By James David Dickson

A2 Journal

Six candidates have stepped up to fill the two contested positions on the Ann Arbor Board of Education, the Washtenaw County Clerks Office confirmed. Two seats on the sevenmember board are up for grabs between the six candidates, a number which includes incumbents Andy Thomas and Simone Lightfoot. There are two ways to get on the ballot for the Ann Arbor school board: File 40 signatures from community supporters, or pay the $100 filing fee. Ahmar Iqbal, owner of Maize & Green Capital Partners, an energy consulting firm, is a University of Michigan graduate who has also studied at the London School of Economics and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Iqbal, who moved his family back to the area from Lahore, Pakistan last year, believes that

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Parents push back against plan for common busing

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Nearly two dozen concerned Ann Arbor Public Schools parents or former parents came out on Thursday night to discuss changes in high school busing this fall. Rather than AAPS buses picking up high schoolers in their neighborhoods, as they did in 2010-11, the students will be required to meet at common bus stops, at elementary schools. The parents and the children they were speaking for live in the Arrowwood Hills Cooperative on the northside of town. The 40plus high school students PLEASE SEE IDLING/3-A who live in Arrowwood

(not including incoming freshmen) would be forced to walk or get a ride to Northside Elementary School at 912 Barton Drive. Board trustee Simone Lightfoot also lives at Arrowwood Hills, but a scheduling conflict kept her from Thursday nights meeting. She wrote a letter in support of the parents and asked that colleague and board vice president Susan Baskett appear in her stead. Before the meeting, Baskett said she drove from Arrowwood to Northside and found its about a 1.2 mile drive. Parents at the meeting Liz Margolis, the districts director of communications, stands in front of a map of the common bus stops for PLEASE SEE PARENTS/3-A high schoolers.

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