EDUCATION – Cochran, longest serving MBUSD trustee, is not seeking reelection
by Mark McDermott Nineteen years ago, Jennifer Cochran was a young mother newly arrived to Manhattan Beach when a teacher conducting parent kindergartner orientation at Meadows Elementary casually mentioned the district’s ongoing funding issues and several programs had only been kept alive through parent involvement. A lightbulb went off in Cochran’s mind’s eye. “That’s when I realized, it’s not anybody else’s job,” Cochran told the Easy Reader in 2013, when she was first running for school board. “We all have a responsibility to do what we can.” Few parents have done more on behalf of local schools in these last two decades than Cochran, a time in which, not coincidentally, all three of her children matriculated through MBUSD. She served on the Meadows PTA board and as its president, then on the Mira Costa High School PTSA and the MBUSD PTA Council, and spent five years on the district’s advocacy team — a group of administrators, teachers and parents that travels annually to Sacramento to lobby on behalf of local schools. Now, after nine years as a trustee on the MBUSD Board of Education, Cochran has chosen not to run for reelection. “I really always intended to serve two terms,”…
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