"Bored with your summer reading list already? Derek Hess and Kent Smith can fix that. Their first book, Please God Save Us debuts July 4. The arguments begin shortly thereafter." -- Northern Ohio Live, July 2008, Page 20. 

Highlights from Kent's two terms on the Euclid School Board 

Test Scores Have Risen 
When I began my first campaign in 2001, the Euclid Schools were in Academic Emergency. In 2005, I pledged that if the Euclid Schools did not get into Continuous Improvement I would not run in 2009. The district achieved Continuous Improvement status at the end of the 2006 school year and test scores have remained strong.