Hello, everyone. My name is Heather Young, and I am happy to introduce tonight’s guest speaker, Sarah Murdock. Ms. Murdock has been teaching the fourth grade at Union Elementary School for more than 15 years. She has received a number of awards for her quality teaching and is beloved by her students (as evidenced by me standing up here today, 10 years after being in her 4th grade classroom). Ms. Murdock has also been consistently active in local and state education policy, and one of her greatest achievements was the creation of the “Math for Kids” afterschool program, which resulted in an increase of overall state testing scores by 16%. We are all very pleased to have Miss Murdock here tonight to discuss what else needs to be done to improve education in our fine county. Please give her a warm welcome as she comes to the stage. Downloaded from http://www.wikihow.com