St. Louis Schools Watch
Bill Haas Running for President, Candidate Fund Raising and More School Board Candidate Q & As
By Susan Turk
March 13, 2019—St. Louis—At the League of Women Voters/ St. Louis Public Schools Foundation sponsored school board candidate forum this evening at Central VPA High School, candidate Bill Haas announced that he is running in the democratic primary for president of the United States. Haas will be holding campaign events in New Hampshire and Iowa during the last week of March. You can learn more about Bill’s presidential campaign at https://votebillhaas.com/. Bill welcomed the audience to help with his campaign.
The one drawback is that Bill also announced that if he wins the Democratic Party nomination and then the general election against Donald Trump, that he would very likely name SLPS Superintendent Dr. Kelvin Adams as his secretary of education. So, if Bill is re-elected to the Board Of Education on April 2nd and then wins the presidential race, that we would be losing both him and Dr. Adams in 2 years.
School Board Candidate Fund Raising
Forty day before the election campaign finance reports show that of the seven candidates running for school board in the April 2nd election, only one of them has raised significant money, Tracee Miller. The others hover around the $500 mark.
Miller has raised a whopping $5,100 mostly from friends and relatives out of state. Her largest campaign donor was Leadership for Educational Equity, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Teach for America corps members and alumni to grow as leaders in their communities. One of the ways they do this is by helping to fund former Teacher for America corps members to run for school board. They have donated $1,000 to Tracee Miller. This puts Miller in the position of being able to afford yard signs which have already begun to crop up around the city and campaign literature.
Candidate Questionnaires. Click to view their responses to the survey.
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Calendar
March 14 2019, Thursday, monthly meeting of the Special Administrative Board, 6:00 p.m., 801 N. 11th Street, room 108
March 25, 2019, Monday, Young Democrats School Board Candidate forum, Central Library, 1301 Olive St., 6:30 p.m.
April 2, 2019, Tuesday, School Board Election. Remember to vote!
April 9, 2019 Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education, 801. North 11th St. room 108, St. Louis, MO 63103.
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