Portland Tribune: "Wynde, Adkins for School Board," April 20, 2007
"....voters should not dismiss the potential of the energetic Adkins — a market research analyst and parent of three children currently in school. Adkins has proved her community credentials with volunteer work in the schools and elsewhere.
She would come to the board as a strong advocate for neighborhoods. She believes school administrators and the board must do a better job of communicating with constituents. Adkins also has worthwhile notions for how the district and other agencies can work to stop the flow of young families from the city.
Adkins would be strongly independent and probing in her questions.
As a new board member, Adkins must learn she no longer is in a pure advocacy role, but that her focus will shift to acting as evaluator and policymaker. We are confident, however, that she will be a cooperative member of the board while also serving as a leader who appropriately will challenge the status quo.
Frankly, we also give weight to the fact that Adkins has a child at each level in Portland Public Schools — elementary, middle and high school. That means she is vested in a positive outcome for schools and will bring a sense of urgency to the job."