Ashley Carson Cottingham, Director, Zone 3
Advocate, Leader, Mother
Salem-Keizer Schools
“Our students and teachers deserve a school board that listens to the community and then makes the necessary changes to improve safety and equity.”
We are so fortunate to live in a beautiful, growing and diverse part of the Willamette Valley. Salem and Keizer are two incredible communities with endless opportunities for our youth. As a School Board Director I will fight to protect our students, support our teachers, ensure those in need have access to critical services and supports. Above all we need to listen to the community and ensure transparency in the governance of our public schools. Our children’s future is dependent on the decisions we make today.
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these."
— George Washington Carver, US horticulturist