You can see the results here (scroll about half-way down to School Board).
The Daily Progess has the full story.
(Personal recollections to follow, after I’ve had some rest and caught up on other things…)
[...]You can see the results here (scroll about half-way down to School Board).
The Daily Progess has the full story.
(Personal recollections to follow, after I’ve had some rest and caught up on other things…)
[...]Current School Board member Ned Michie has distributed an email explaining his take on the Tuscany trip involving the School officials and the City Council. With Ned’s permission, I have reproduced the letter here.
[...]1070 WINA is interviewing all of the City School Board candidates and, I discovered today, archiving the MP3 files. My interview was this morning and the files are already available. I have linked the two parts below. When I get time, I will create a page for all of [...]
Today’s Daily Progress reports that “Three Charlottesville school officials and two city councilors will travel to Italy next week on a six-day, publicly funded trip.” Charles Kollmansperger, the interim School Board member, appears to be the only one of the sitting members who questions this as a spending [...]
From the Charlottesville Podcasting Network:
Six of the candidates for the Charlottesville School Board spoke at a forum at Charlottesville High School on Monday night. They answered questions about their ideals, the school budget, the focus on standardized assessments, and making school exciting for both students and teachers. The questions [...]
Will Goldsmith, writing for the C-Ville Weekly, profiles all seven School Board candidates. I personally found the 30-word-answer restriction a bit confining, but I think the article does a good job of encapsulating our important positions. Accompanying the article is a poll, and for some reason voters are selecting [...]
The October 18 edition of The Hook published an article entitled “Hot Races“, reviewing the local electoral races that will be decided on November 6. Unfortunately, and sadly, the focus in the article was on partisanship, highlighting those races which they could easily paint in terms of Republicans vs. [...]
Abundant Life Ministries is a local group that works with underprivileged youth to help them find a forward direction in their lives. They do great work, but are losing their space. The leader of Abundant Life approached the principal of Johnson School about using space on school grounds for [...]
Pictured below is a precinct map of Charlottesville. Clicking on it will take you to a page with links to individual maps and addresses.
The Registrar has provided another useful document for Election Day (and thanks again to Grant Brownrigg for forwarding it along): Boundary Lines Outside the Precincts on Election.
(Unfortunately, it’s a somewhat fuzzy PDF, but you should be able to read it if printed out.)
[...]Charlottesville’s Registrar, Sherry Iachetta, has provided this document Rules for Authorized Observers in the Polling Place.
(And thank you to Grant Brownrigg for sending it along)
[...]The new education reporter at The Daily Progress, Barney Breen-Portnoy, has briefly profiled all the School Board candidates. The story appears on today’s front page.
[...]The School Board Candidates have been working together to promote public forums with neighborhood associations and other civic groups. We all see this as an opportunity for you to get to know us, as well as for us to hear what is on your mind. We attended a forum at [...]
Count on Waldo to have posted this before I even read the story. The City School Administration has reversed its decision to hire the new Greenbrier Principal candidate after allegations that her husband may be investigated for a 1990
murder. Links and discussions at CVille News.
My campaign website is finally up at CitizenMcCord.com (what can I say? I’m an Orson Welles fan). This website, which I have renamed CVille School News, is meant to be an open forum for all candidates and the community to discuss local school issues. With that in mind, [...]
The City of Charlottesville announced today that the City was awarded two important Safe Routes to School project grants from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The money will be used to improve conditions for walking and bicycling to and from some area schools.
[...]Karl Ackerman, who has commented on this site, “believes that an open appointment process would help to renew the public’s confidence in the school division” as reported in the Daily Progress.
[...]Lately I have been so focused on submitting all the needed candidate’s paperwork and in the proper order that I have not been able to take the time to document all that process here. I will. I have learned a lot about bank accounts, economic statements, etc.
Today is the deadline [...]
Charlottesville schools are planning to fight the obesity epidemic in their middle school and high school cafeterias by adopting a color-coded nutrition system used by the University of Virginia Medical Center according to the Daily Progress and as discussed in CVille News.
I brought this to the attention of [...]
This is a few days late, but there’s an interesting discussion going on at CVille News about advocacy groups sending fliers home with students. In our school, this is known as “backpack mail”, and it can be extremely effective … if the child remembers. In most cases, however, we find [...]
Both The Daily Progress and CVille News have already reported that tomorrow, June 5 at 4:00 PM at the Free Speech Monument, I will be officially announcing my candidacy for Charlottesville City School Board.
This morning, I attended Llezelle Dugger’s announcement and had the pleasure of speaking to her [...]
In a story on Louis Bograd, current School Board member who is resigning as of July 11, local independent newspaper CVille Weekly mentions this blog when talking about potential candidates. On Friday night, I attended my daughter’s band performance at Walker School and met another potential candidate who just [...]
Starting last Fall and through the Spring, I attended a twice-monthly class sponsored by Charlottesville’s Neighborhood Development Services called the Neighborhood Leadership Institute. Over the course of six months, I met many other local neighborhood activists as we worked together to learn about city government and improve civic participation. [...]
Karl Ackerman writes:
I would love to hear more about the school issues that you (and other announced and potential SB candidates) are hearing about from city residents — and about the school issues at the top of your own list.
I am hearing issues — and I will address those [...]
I am late with the posting — I’ve promised to be open, not necessarily timely 
— but yesterday Grant Brownrigg announced his candidacy for Charlottesville School Board. That makes a grand total of … one, since Alvin Edwards has not officially filed his declaration of candidacy.
Grant [...]
The first step in becoming a candidate is to gather signatures on a Petition of Qualified Voters. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Circulators can gather signatures for you, but they must also be either registered to vote in Charlottesville, or at least be eligible to vote [...]
Jeremy Borden of The Daily Progress did such a good job of reporting on yesterday’s forum that he has saved me an entire post.
[...]I just want to give a shout-out to Waldo for posting about this site and my decision on CVilleNews. I appreciate the kind words and the traffic…
This morning I attended a School Board Candidates Interest Forum sponsored by the Quality Community Council and the League of Women Voters. First to speak was the City Registrar, Sheri Iachetta, who patiently explained the whole process one must go through in order to be a candidate [...]
I know that in order to run for School Board, I must file a Declaration of Candidacy and also submit petitions with 125 signatures of registered City voters. I looked all over the Charlottesville City and City Schools websites, but I could not find any of the forms [...]
