Honor the override
Voters approved an 18 percent tax increase over three years to protect these schools. That trust comes with obligations: transparent spending, honest multi-year budgets, and a real plan for the structural deficit.
How I’d do itFor Brookline School Committee
Priten Soundar‑Shah
Educator·Author·Neighbor
Brookline voters just made the largest investment in our schools in town history. I’m running to make sure it’s honored: honest budgets, technology decisions that put kids before vendors, restored programs, and a committee that hears from every family in town.
On May 4, that oval next to my name is all it takes.
Why I’m running
The schools we’re counting on
My partner and I chose Brookline because this is where we want to raise our children, and these are the schools we’re counting on. I’ve spent my career in education: training more than 50,000 teachers, writing two books on technology in schools, and helping districts make hard decisions well. I want to put that experience to work for the town we’ve made our home.
The platform
Three commitments
Judgment about technology
I know the ed tech industry from the inside, which is why I’ll be the hardest person in the room for any vendor to get past. Brookline should lead the state on AI policy, student data privacy, and evidence-based screen use.
Where I standA committee every family can reach
Most residents don’t have a child enrolled right now, and many families who do can’t make a Thursday night meeting at Town Hall. I’ll go to where families are.
What that meansFor the record
By the numbers
- Teachers trained through my nonprofit
- 50,000+
- Books on technology in schools
- 2
- Languages my first book is translated into
- 5
- Town we chose to call home
- 1
Don’t take my word for it
Check my work
I’ve spent years thinking out loud about schools, in public, on the record. If you want to know how I’d approach this job, it’s all there — including the places where the evidence changed my mind.
The podcast
Margin of Thought — weekly conversations with teachers, students, and researchers about how we raise and educate children.
Listen inThe newsletter
An essay, a case study from the week’s education news, and a few honest questions — every week, free.
Read alongThe books
AI and the Future of Education (2023) and Ethical Ed Tech (2026) — including where the second one disagrees with the first.
See the booksThis campaign runs on neighbors
Get involved
An hour a month makes a difference in a race decided at doors, at school pickups, and in living rooms.