Jennifer Maxon-Kennelly for BOE

02/24/2025

Fairfield BoE is hosting a town hall Tuesday night for back and forth conversation with residents about all matters related to Finance, Facilities, and Programs. Questions about how the BoE might meet budget cuts? Issues with educational matters? Concerned about facilities? This meeting is a great opportunity for live feedback.

02/17/2024

See pages 548-549:
https://boe.fairfieldschools.org/content/uploads/2024/02/AGENDAENC-2-13-2024-Virtual-BoE-Regular-Meeting.pdf

Hoping the Ffld community is aware of an upcoming vote that will impact how the BoE creates the FPS calendar going forward. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to the BoE!

10/22/2023

Thank you Shane (D8 RTM candidate) for hosting this BoE Meet and Greet! Wonderful to meet your neighbors and fellow RTM candidates!

10/17/2023

I appreciate the additional opportunity to introduce myself to the public!

Fairfield resident Jennifer Maxon Kennelly tells Patch why she should be re-elected to the Board of Education.

10/14/2023

Thank you to the DTC for posting. I look forward to hearing from anyone in the public on any matters of concern!

10/03/2023

Please join fellow BOE candidates David Krasnoff, Jennifer Maxon Kennelly and myself for Coffee with the Candidates this Sunday!

We are excited to meet with you and to hear any thoughts or concerns on education you would like to discuss with us.

Hope to see you there and please feel free to share with friends and neighbors!

Jennifer Maxon-Kennelly for BOE
David Krasnoff for Fairfield Board of Education

09/20/2023

My campaign signs have arrived! If you would be interested in hosting one, please let me know. (Sign only....puppy stays with us!)

08/16/2023

Great news for our students!

We are pleased to share that a new allocation of state funding enables FPS to offer free breakfast for ALL students for the duration of the 2023-24 school year. Students who are eligible for reduced price meals will receive free lunch.

For those who need meal assistance and are not automatically eligible through SNAP or Husky A, please see information available in the Free and Reduced-Priced Meals section of the website www.fairfieldschools.org/departments/finance/food-services

08/01/2023

Dear Friends:

I’m excited to announce that I am seeking re-election to the Fairfield Board of Education on November 7th. If you’ve followed the issues here in town, then I imagine you’d agree that now more than ever we need BOE members committed to academically sound, common-sense approaches, rather than to unproven ideology and parochial interests.

My approach has always been to seek out data-driven and best practices-accepted policies, that I truly believe best serve the unique needs of our students here in Fairfield—and to work to implement those approaches always with an eye on how they impact all of us as taxpayers.

I hope my record of service and continued commitment to excellence in our public schools will earn your support. I’m excited to get out and engage with residents during this campaign, but I can’t do this alone. I hope you will consider donating to my re-election effort here:
https://secure.anedot.com/jennifer-maxon-kennelly-2023/474e2bed-6cda-4a7f-9713-7debb38e5bfb

Thanks so much!

Jen

Join me in supporting Jennifer Maxon Kennelly 2023

06/13/2022

As the BoE searches for a new Superintendent, the feedback of all Fairfield stakeholder groups is important! Please consider attending tonight's in-person forum at RLMS.

02/12/2021

I wrote the following on a private FB page for parents in Fairfield. As I am not comfortable with the fact that it IS "private," and in the interests of full transparency, I am including it below:
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I have been very clear for months that I am in favor of a full return of our students to in-person learning.
I am very much looking forward to hearing the plan for that full return, with dates, which Superintendent Cummings will be communicating to the BoE and public at our Special meeting in a few weeks.
We know that all lunch issues will be addressed via the building-specific plans which all principals are submitting by Feb. 18th. I look forward to working with staff in any capacity to make that happen.
However, before parents misdirect their anger, it seems to need repeating that the absolute primary issue regarding lunch from Day One has been ensuring social distancing. To target one specific food allergy policy and/or the children for whom that policy affords their legal protections and/or the parents who advocate for their children is unproductive, misplaced, and completely at-odds with how policy comes to be. NO parent wrote our policy; NO parent is singlehandedly responsible for its contents. The Board's policy committee took up that policy because of a change in state statute that required we re-examine our existing policy and make it compliant. We did this work in conjunction with many stake-holders across the town. We have re-examined that policy as issues have arisen and modified accordingly.
If anyone has questions about the policy, I would be happy to address them. If anyone has questions about the specific re-opening plan, with dates, that will be presented at our upcoming special meeting, I guess I would say to stay-tuned and to continue to voice your views and suggestions to Mr. Cummings, to Sands Cleary, and to the BoE.