Toni Rehbein's ties to Missoula International School

At the heart of the Missoula International School lease of Prescott School is the underlying fact that the current Board Chairwoman of Missoula County Public Schools, Toni Rehbein,  once served on the Board of Missoula International School shortly before her election to the MCPS Board in 2004.

According to Montana Corporation Annual Reports from the years of 1998 and 2000, Toni Rehbein served as President and Vice President of Missoula International School, respectively. (Montana Corporation Annual Reports are available to the public from the Secretary of State's office in Helena.)
Rehbein ran for a seat on the MCPS Board in 2004,  winning the election in May of that year. 

We know by remarks by Scott Bixler at a December 2004 Board Meeting that he had been asked the previous year to serve on the Board.  Therefore, we can presume that Toni Rehbein had been contemplating running for a MCPS Board seat sometime in 2003 or perhaps earlier, as Rehbein, Bixler and Joe Toth ran as a team.  The time span is quite short, that is, from 2000 to 2003, in which Toni Rehbein was serving on the MIS Board to running for a seat on the MCPS Board.

It is highly likely that one of the reasons, if not THE reason for her decision to run for a seat on the MCPS Board was to help secure Prescott School for use by the private Missoula International School. 

In a later post one will see Toni Rehbein's first words as a MCPS Trustee. Hint: They have to do with the leasing of Prescott School by Missoula International School.

Update on June 21, 2013:
Prescott School Missoula overlooked a missing piece regarding the the Missoula International School Montana Corporation Annual Reports. Prescott School Missoula did not mention at the time of this page's original post date (May 4th, 2012) that Trustee Toni Rehbein was the President of Missoula International School in not only the year mentioned above, 1998, but also in the year of 1999. For three consecutive years Rehbein served as an officer of Missoula International School. This indicates deep ties to Missoula International School for now former Chairwoman of the MCPS Board of Trustees - a school for which she advocated over and over during her tenure on the MCPS Board thus displaying disloyalty to MCPS.


Edited on August 15, 2012, June 24, 2013