David Clark joined the Westminster school board in March of 1988 and after his electoral defeat in 1993 was subsequently appointed to Bellows Falls Union High School Board in 1994, then defeated again in 1998. He rejoined BFUHS board in 1999, eventually serving as board chair from 2006 to 2007, finally receiving his 3rd Order of The Boot in the March 2007 election.
He was returned to Bellows Falls Union High School board for the third time in 2008 and assumed the Chair again until resigning the position in 2018 in order to take leadership of the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union board for the purpose of marshaling the district's resources in battling the Act 46 forced school mergers which impacted not only three of the four towns in the Supervisory Union but also many other Vermont school districts, the effects of which are still being felt. He incorporated the Alliance of Vermont School Board Members which gave those boards an organized, state-wide platform around which to coalesce.
His subsequent effort has been as the incorporator of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity, another state-wide effort, to challenge the arbitrary Act 173 student weighting formula which substantially disadvantaged a large majority of Vermont school districts to the benefit of the wealthier towns, a dynamic which continues to affect Vermont education.
More recently he has thrown his support behind the independent Compass School of Westminster after observing how effectively Compass has prepared a cadre of often marginalized students for their future careers that his own high school could not. His efforts both at Bellows Falls Union High School and at Compass are ongoing.
David has also served on the River Valley Technical Center board in Springfield for more than 20 years and was involved in the successful effort to make it the 3rd independent technical center district in the state. Currently he serves on the board of the Windham Regional Career Center in Brattleboro.
In his spare time David Clark also founded Sports Car Services in 1987 which provided routine maintenance, heavy repair and overhaul of a high order to owners of British sports cars throughout Eastern New York, New Jersey, and all of New England, downsizing in 2015 as Floodplain Sports Cars, which caters to a limited clientele on a part-time basis.
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