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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE) - Clovis Unified School District's Superintendent Corrine Folmer knows that successful the crippled of education, occurrence comes from being a squad player.
“It's ne'er been astir 1 person. It's astir this team. And determination is nary greater squad and household than the 1 I've encountered successful Clovis Unified,” said Folmer.
Folmer is the superintendent for the Clovis Unified School District, gathering connected a bequest of squad players earlier her.
“The information that I get to travel 2 strong, passionate women and hopefully, you know, my top anticipation is that someday radical volition look and say, you know, she tried to support up with us, and I don't cognize if I'll conscionable their standard, but that I'm upholding the expectations that person been founded here,” she said.
Folmer’s Family is portion of that Clovis Unified foundation.
“I'm the 3rd procreation of my household to beryllium a Clovis product. My gramps graduated from Clovis earlier it was a district, and past my begetter graduated from Clovis High,” she said.
Folmer was a authorities champion runner astatine Buchanan and a student-athlete astatine Fresno State wherever she earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate.
She mentored different young athletes arsenic a shot manager astatine Alta Sierra until exchanging the shot tract for the classroom.
“There was a teacher successful Clovis Unified who was a large mentor and she was like, You should go a teacher. And I thought, Oh, I don't know. And definite enough, I've ne'er regretted that decision,” said Folmer.
The students and the acquisition has ever been her focus.
“I don't cognize that I connected a imaginativeness committee had ‘be the superintendent for Clovis Unified,’ but it's not mislaid connected me, the work and the large honor,” said Folmer.
Now her 2 daughters get to ticker their ma transportation that work with honor. Her youngest, Sydney, is a freshman astatine Clovis East and astatine 9 years old, Sydney was diagnosed with narcolepsy.
“She is simply a large inspiration astir embracing each of our circumstances and not letting that specify you,” said Folmer.
To rise consciousness for her daughter's illness, the erstwhile authorities champion ran successful the 2024 New York City Marathon for the “Narcolepsy Network.”
Showing disconnected that Clovis Unified tone that helped signifier the singular pistillate she is contiguous and the singular women her daughters are becoming.
“My girls are surrounded by a colony similar each different pupil successful our district, a colony who is helping to spouse to signifier them erstwhile I can't beryllium there, clasp them accountable, and thatch them the beingness lessons that they're going to request erstwhile they leave," Folmer said.
