Luera’s expertise will benefit schools

Published 4:17 pm Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Our family has known Ed Luera for the past seven years as coach of our youngest son in football and track. I have seen first hand how passionate Ed is about “his” kids and have been on hand many weekends and weeknights watching Ed work tirelessly mentoring and encouraging kids from all backgrounds.

Coach Ed always knew how to maintain that perfect balance between being a competitive coach and compassionate father figure. Ed’s house was home to many more kids than his own throughout football season and often before and after football season. I know Ed’s passion for seeing kids succeed will carry over to all he does as a member of the Bellevue School Board.

From his home near Yakima, to his acceptance into Harvard for undergraduate and Columbia for a master’s degree in economics, Ed understands what it takes to work tirelessly to achieve a goal and overcome adversity. The Bellevue School Board will benefit from Ed’s business planning expertise to help create better development plans so that the new Bellevue schools will be built to accommodate a more realistic expected student population unlike the recently rebuilt Newport and Bellevue High Schools which are already facing over-crowding just a few years after completion.

Bellevue is blessed with great schools, just not great school planners. Ed Luera could help the school board create a better plan.

David White, Bellevue