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Delmar School Board - at large Choose 1

In Delaware, school board service is an unpaid elected position with a term of 4 years (5 years for board members elected prior to Dec 2021). School board elections are nonpartisan, and are held on the second Tuesday in May each year.The Delmar DE School District, in the southwest corner of the state, functions in partnership with the Delmar Maryland School District. Delmar students in grades pre-K to grade 4 attend school in the Maryland district, while students in grades 5 through 12 attend schools under the jurisdiction of the Delaware district. Five Board of Education members are elected on a rotating basis (with one or two seats open each year) from the district at large.

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Russell R. Smart (N)

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What is your background and how do those experiences and skills allow you to be an effective school board member?

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What is the single most important issue facing your school district and how would you address it?

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How should school boards respond to community calls for removing any curriculum topics, subjects, books and programs?

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What kind of mental health supports do you favor in schools and how would you go about advocating for them?

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How would you ensure the district provides equitable access and meets the needs of all students, including traditionally underserved student populations such as students of color, low-income students, English-language learners and students receiving special education services?

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Delaware needs more resource officers in the schools. Scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.

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16 and 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote in school board elections. Yes or no

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Dawn M. Turner (N)

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What is your background and how do those experiences and skills allow you to be an effective school board member?

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What is the single most important issue facing your school district and how would you address it?

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How should school boards respond to community calls for removing any curriculum topics, subjects, books and programs?

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What kind of mental health supports do you favor in schools and how would you go about advocating for them?

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How would you ensure the district provides equitable access and meets the needs of all students, including traditionally underserved student populations such as students of color, low-income students, English-language learners and students receiving special education services?

Candidate has not yet responded.

Delaware needs more resource officers in the schools. Scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.

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16 and 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote in school board elections. Yes or no

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