Our Schools Are In Crisis: They need Your Help...Vote

School Board Elections have never been this important! How do you find out if your polling place has changed? Read your sample ballot that is delivered with the mail. 

• Find your street on this list
• Identify your ward and district to the right of the street name
• Using your ward and district find your polling place on this list.  

We may not have a lot of money, but we do have the power of our votes? Remember where your candidate of choice is on the ballot:

• Where the candidates appear on the ballot has been said to have a lot to do with the results. This is the year that we demonstrate the ability to count pass 5. Below are the actual lines each candidate appears on when you vote.

            1.  Henry Pruitt

            2.  Molly Berry

            3.  David Popkin

            4.  J. Kim

            5.  Curtis E. Caviness

            6.  Howard Haughton


Listed below are the opportunities you have to meet and question the candidates for the Board of Education. Find out where the candidates stand on issues that will shape the lives of our children for years to come.


April 12, 2012  League of Women Voters - 7:00 
@ The Public Safety Complex on Van Brunt St. Courthouse building
April 15, 2012 NAACP Meet the Candidates @Community Baptist Church  3:30 - 4:45pm
April 16, 2012 PTO Council Meet the Candidates....7:30 @ McCloud School, Tenafly Rd., Durie Avenue across the street from Winton White Stadium
Questions:

• Question them about campaign promises. Are they making promises they do not intend to keep?
• Find out how each Candidate feels about the threat to Outsource nurses, child study teams, secretaries, aides, substitutes, paraprofessionals
• Where is our Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction? (promised in 2011 campaign)
• Find out if the candidates are willing to learn the law and to abide by it
• Where is our "Real Attendance Officer" (We are not Bergen Academy) Parent Liaisons are not sufficient here.
• What is really going on at St. Cecilia's. How many students and classrooms are we really using?
• Where and when are our district offices moving, ie...the business office...
• When will the public find out what changes were made beneath Winton White Stadium and why these changes were made? Why are they secret?
• Why is the Board of Education trying to build Pritchard a Maintenance Garage/office building in the flood hazard area adjacent to the Little League Field on Durie Ave.?
• Why are we being told that the high school is falling apart and plagued by violence while the supporting documents submitted  (p.25: F2) to the state with the budget paints a totally different picture?
• When will EPSD have curriculum in all subject areas?

Formulate your questions before attending.