Lori Bica

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Lori Bica

Eau Claire Area School District school board, At-large

Tenure

2017 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

8

Report an officeholder change

Elections and appointments

Appointed

2017

Education

Bachelor's

Michigan State University

Graduate

The Ohio State University

Ph.D

The Ohio State University

Personal

Profession

Professor

Lori Bica is a member of the Eau Claire Area School District school board, At-large in Wisconsin. She assumed office in 2017. Her current term ends in 2026.

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Biography

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Bica received her bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and her master's degree and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Ohio State University. Her professional experience includes working as a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire.

Elections

2018

See also: Eau Claire Area School District elections (2018)

Four of the seven seats on the Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education in Wisconsin were up for at-large general election on April 3, 2018. Two of the at-large seats were up for three-year terms, one seat was up for a two-year term, and one seat was up for a one-year term. Two of the seats are up for special election after Carolyn Barstad and Jennifer Fager both resigned in 2017. Incumbent Kathryn P. Duax did not file for re-election, leaving one open seat. The winners of the four seats were incumbents Lori Bica, Joe Luginbill, Eric Torres, and non-incumbent Laurie Klinkhammer. The other candidates were Joshua Clements, Tim Nordin, and John Plewa.

Results

There are no official candidates yet for this election.

Campaign themes

2018

Leader-Telegram survey

Bica participated in the following survey conducted by the Leader-Telegram. The questions provided by the Leader-Telegram are bolded, and Bica's responses follow below:

“	The school district currently has Montessori and McKinley charter schools and is considering a new one at the Little Red School site. What role do you see for charter schools in the district going forward? Charter schools already play an important role in our district, and there is a place for additional programs that meet essential criteria for effectiveness: 1) a charter school must provide equal access to high-quality education for all children in the district; 2) charter schools must be held to the same standards of accountability and transparency as traditional public schools (e.g., disaggregated enrollment and academic performance data are made available to evaluate the school’s success in educating its students); and 3) charter schools’ primary focus must be to improve learning for educationally disadvantaged students. The district recently altered boundary lines between North and Memorial high schools in order to address an enrollment disparity. Do you think other measures need to be taken to address inequity between the schools? If so, what would you propose? As a current member of the school board, I strongly support all efforts to ensure equity between North and Memorial high schools, including offering the same courses and co-curricular opportunities, aligning schedules so distance learning courses can be shared between schools, enabling teachers to travel between schools to offer courses, and limiting open enrollment of students coming from outside the district to balance enrollments. I propose regular reviews of all resource allocations to guarantee that North and Memorial students have access to the very same high-quality education. How is the district dealing with trends and changes that affect how education is delivered, as well as societal issues such as mental health and children living in poverty? From the perspective of someone responsible for training future school personnel, I have been extraordinarily impressed with the district’s teachers, building-level administrators and central administration in terms of their knowledge of trends and changes advanced by current educational research, evidence-based decision making, designing and assessing innovative approaches of their own, and disseminating knowledge via presentations at professional conferences and scholarly publications. Goal 2 of the School Board’s Strategic Plan, Student Social and Emotional Growth, perfectly positions the ECASD to respond to societal issues affecting students now and in the future.	”
—Lori Bica, 2018

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See also

• Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin
• Eau Claire Area School District elections (2018)

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