He also wants parents alone to have voting rights on School Community Based Management councils. The board is currently debating whether gay students should be given specific protection in the board's anti-harassment policy. Rezents believes those decisions should not be made by a central board, but by parents at the school level. Parents have always been more in tune with what needs to be done in their schools. Rezents said he's getting far more interest from voters in this board election than he got in 1998 when he ran unsuccessfully against Alex Santiago for the North Shore House seat.
Education is the hot topic and everyone is taking it seriously.
As a member of the Mililani Neighborhood Board for the last 10 years, Romero has chaired the education committee where he has been a vocal opponent of the Department of Education's multitrack efforts. If elected to the Board of Education, Romero said he would focus on more fiscal accountability and getting more money into the classroom. He said the standards will focus too much on test scores and he wants more emphasis on other measures such as delinquency, truancies or teen pregnancies. Romero has been employed by the U.S. armed services for 27 years and now works part time for the Hawai ' i Air National Guard. He is a parent representative on the School Community Based Management council at Mililani High School.