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Penny Blackwell |
Vice President
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Upper Cape Cod Voc. Tech. |
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Penny Blackwell has combined many years as an advocate for parents and students and technical school education with a professional career as a nurse clinician and health care administrator. Her public school advocacy includes several years as PTA President and a member of the State PTA Board as well as serving as Legislative Chair of the MA PTA where she built a strong bridge between MASC and the state’s parent teacher organization. She served on joint panels with MASC at both the PTA and MASS/MASC Joint Conferences and has participated in several national school board conferences.
Ms. Blackwell is currently completing her tenth year as a member of the Upper Cape Cod Vocational Technical School Committee. She has served as Vice Chair of that committee and is currently the Immediate Past Chair, having held the position for the past three years. She is also the Chair of the Policy and Superintendent Evaluation subcommittees, and serves on the Budget and Sick Bank subcommittees. She also served three years on the Sandwich School Committee where she was a member of the Negotiations subcommittee and was the Committee’s representative on the Sandwich Community School Board. In 2002, the Committee nominated Ms. Blackwell to the Association’s All-State School Committee. She rose through the ranks as Division VII chair and member of the MASC Board of Directors for five years, organizing successful annual legislative forums. She recently answered the call to once again lead the division after the retirement of Ralph Cahoon in July, 2009. Over the past decade, she has served on both the MASC Policy and Resolutions Committees and as a member of the Federal Relations Network. She was among the leading proponents of greater state allocations for both district and regional transportation funding and increased federal allocations for the Carl Perkins Technical Education Act. Ms. Blackwell was honored with a Life Membership in MASC in 2007.
Professionally, Ms. Blackwell is an operating room nurse, currently employed as an administrator at Cape Cod Hospital. She continues actively on the clinical front as well. Currently, Ms. Blackwell is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration focusing on education and public policy. |
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