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Watch out, Pasco school board candidates
Posted Aug 10, 2010 by Tom Jackson
Updated Aug 10, 2010 at 01:03 PM
What to do about the school district budget gap? Raise property taxes in a stubborn recession? Is an amendment to the class-size amendment good policy? Think the current board too often plays rubber stamp in the fist of an agenda-driven administration? With almost all district employees once targeted for layoffs successfully reassigned, should the board seek dollars for permanent raises from the no-name, one-off federal “jobs” bill Congressional Democrats expect to send to President Obama today?
Come Thursday, these and other pot-stirring questions will help provide what a pair of ink-stained moderators from the local dailies hope will be a livey and informative inspection of the small army of candidates seeking three wide-open school board seats in the Aug. 24 primary election.
Beginning at 6 p.m. at the conference center on the west campus of Pasco-Hernando Community College, Bill Stevens, boss of the St. Petersburg Times Pasco edition, joins your humble Pasco Tribune opinion-leader for a three-hour brain bowl on topics education-centric.
District 3 candidates (Cynthia Armstrong, Mike Ryan, Sallie Skipper, Anthony Terranova) kick things off. District 4 candidates (Alison Crumbley, Steve Kanakis, Karen King, Billie Stamatis-Kaleel, John Tracy) mix it up beginning at 7 p.m. District 5 candidates (Steve Kuikart, George Brazier, Mark Swartsel) follow at 8 p.m. Better bring your A games, office-seekers.
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