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Board of Education

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The Board recognizes the value to school governance of public comment on educational issues. As such, the Board has set aside 30 minutes during each regular meeting for public concerns during which individuals may address the Board members. Members of the public wishing to address the board should contact the treasurer's office at 614-501-2259 two business days before the scheduled meeting and request to be added to the agenda. Any members of the public wishing to address the Board also should be familiar with the procedures outlined in the board's policy: Public Participation at Board Meetings. (0169.1 - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT BOARD MEETINGS). Each statement made by a participant will be limited to three (3) minutes.

Board of Education

The Board of Education makes all fiscal and policy decisions for the district. The five-member board is elected by voters who live within the school district boundaries. Terms last four years.
 
Responsibilities of the board include: selecting and employing a superintendent; selecting and employing a treasurer; determining an annual budget and appropriations; providing needed facilities; providing funds to operate the district; approving or rejecting the recommendations of the superintendent in matters of policy, appointment of dismissal of employees, salaries, courses of study, selection of textbooks and other matters; requiring reports of the superintendent concerning the conditions, efficiency and needs of the district; evaluating the effectiveness with which the district is achieving the educational purposes of the board, informing the public about the progress and needs of the district; and adopting policies for governance.
 
The public is welcome to attend board meetings, which are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month. Please visit our District Calendar for meeting information. 

Board Members


Group photo of the Board of Education
Reynoldsburg City Schools' Board of Education
L-R:Jeni Quesenberry (Vice President), Mandy Young, Kendra McKay, Angela Abram (President), Neal Whitman

Board of Education Biographies and Contact Information:


Angela Abram, PresidentHeadshot of Angela Abram
(614) 501-0915
[email protected]

A 25-year resident of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Angela is a mother of four adult children who all attended Reynoldsburg schools, with the most recent graduate being a member of the class of 2020.
 
A graduate of Boston University Sargent College of Allied Health, Angela is a National Board Certified Occupational Therapist (NBCOT) (OTR/L) and licensed by the Ohio Occupational Therapy Board and the Ohio Department of Education. She is a pediatric developmental specialist serving children with neurodiversity, as well as those with differing cognitive, intellectual, emotional, physical, and learning abilities.
 
Appointed in 2019 and elected in November 2021, Angela is in her second year as Board of Education president. She currently serves on finance, policy, citizens advisory, and city liaison committees. At the Ohio School Board Association (OSBA) level, Angela serves on the hospitality committee and the Black Caucus committee and was the 2023 Reynoldsburg delegate.
 
Local community activities include serving on Reynoldsburg Special Olympics; Reynoldsburg Community Association, where she co-chairs Christmas on the Town; Reynoldsburg Visitors Bureau; and the planning committee for Reynoldsburg Juneteenth. She is a proud member of the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association, Mount Vernon Avenue AME Church, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. An arts lover, she enjoys live music, visual arts, dance, poetry, and spoken word. Enjoying physical fitness, she walks a 5k daily and has completed five half marathons.


Jeni Quesenberry, Vice PresidentHeadshot of Jeni Quesenberry
(614) 306-5386

Jeni Quesenberry is a long-time resident of Reynoldsburg. She attended schools and graduated from Reynoldsburg City Schools. She is also a graduate of Ohio Dominican University and The Ohio State University.  Her children and some grandchildren also attended school in the district. Mrs. Quesenberry is a retired teacher and elementary school administrator and has previously served on the Reynoldsburg City Schools Board. 


Kendra McKayHeadshot of Kendra McKay
(614) 434-6766

Kendra McKay has been a Reynoldsburg resident since 2007. She is married with two children. Her oldest son is a 2024 Reynoldsburg Graduate and her youngest attends Reynoldsburg High School. Mrs. McKay is originally from Niles, Ohio, and received her Bachelor of Arts from Kent State University. She has enjoyed being the Reynoldsburg Band Booster President and a Cub Scout leader, she has also been active in the various PTO’s in the schools that her sons attended. In her free time, Mrs. McKay enjoys going to her son’s various sporting and band events as well as spending time with her family and friends. 



Headshot of Neal Whitman Neal Whitman
(614) 260-1622 
[email protected] 

Now serving his third term on the Board, Neal grew up in Texas, earning his BA at the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to Ohio in 1992, and over the years gradually became a Buckeye: meeting and marrying his wife Amanda; settling in Reynoldsburg in 1999; graduating with a PhD in linguistics from Ohio State University in 2002. He and Amanda have two sons, who both attended Reynoldsburg Schools from kindergarten; graduated from Reynoldsburg High School in 2017 and 2019; and went on to study at OSU. Neal works at the Intercultural English Language Programs in the College of Education and Human Ecology at OSU, where he teaches academic writing, as well as spoken English for international teaching assistants. He has developed a passion for the history of Reynoldsburg Schools, and over the past several years has created interactive maps of District and City boundaries; written a history covering 75 years of the District’s successes and failures with tax levies; digitized all of the surviving Board minutes from 1912-1951 to be stored with those that were already in digital form.

Headshot of Mandy Young
Mandy Young
(740) 251-3131
Mandy has been a board member since January 2022. She grew up in Cardington, Ohio, and moved to Reynoldsburg City School District in 2002. She is married and has two children; her oldest daughter attends The Ohio State University and her youngest is a Reynoldsburg City Schools student. Mandy graduated with a bachelor of arts in English from The Ohio State University in 2000.  Mandy is an insurance agent with Nationwide Insurance. She currently serves on the Eastland Fairfield Career and Technical Schools Board of Education, writes for the Reynoldsburg Magazine, and enjoys reading in her spare time.



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