On May 6, CivEnergy held a forum for the various measures including Measure H, the parks tax renewal. Co ...
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Opposing Sides Discuss Measure H
Opposing Sides Discuss Measure H
On May 6, CivEnergy held a forum for the various measures including Measure H, the parks tax renewal. Councilmember Will Arnold represented the Yes side, with Michael Nolan, the President of the Yolo ...
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Analysis: In a Way the Community Never Moved On From Peterson…
Analysis: In a Way the Community Never Moved On From Peterson…
It was March 18, and the Davis School Board had just voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s decision on not r ...
It was March 18, and the Davis School Board had just voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s decision on not renewing volleyball coach Julie Crawford’s VSA (variable service agreement). At the time, Board ...
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School Board Candidate Question #5: Nancy Peterson Aftermath
School Board Candidate Question #5: Nancy Peterson Aftermath
This is the final of five questions to the school board candidates. Question #5: What is the biggest less ...
This is the final of five questions to the school board candidates. Question #5: What is the biggest lesson we should take away from the Peterson scandal from last winter and what steps would you take ...
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Vanguard Analysis: The Race for Third for School Board?
Vanguard Analysis: The Race for Third for School Board?
A few weeks ago, we handicapped the school board race and argued that Madhavi Sunder and Barbara Archer w ...
A few weeks ago, we handicapped the school board race and argued that Madhavi Sunder and Barbara Archer were the prohibitive front runners. We don’t have available polling data so we make use of a bun ...
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Sunday Commentary II: Stop Looking at Volunteer Record When Evaluating School Board Candidates
Sunday Commentary II: Stop Looking at Volunteer Record When Evaluating School Board Candidates
We should have learned our lessons by now, but it doesn’t seem that we have. On October 7, 2012, the Ente ...
We should have learned our lessons by now, but it doesn’t seem that we have. On October 7, 2012, the Enterprise wrote, “Peterson is the perfect blend of experience and heart. She has demonstrated thro ...
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Vanguard School Board Question #2: Common Core
Vanguard School Board Question #2: Common Core
In the second of five weekly questions, the Vanguard asked: What do you know of Common Core? How is Comm ...
In the second of five weekly questions, the Vanguard asked: What do you know of Common Core? How is Common Core being implemented in Davis? What do you think should be done to further implement Comm ...
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Meet the School Board Candidates (Video)
Meet the School Board Candidates (Video)
Thanks to Davis Media Access who invited each of the seven candidates for school board for the three four ...
Thanks to Davis Media Access who invited each of the seven candidates for school board for the three four year seats to make statements up to five minutes in length. Tom Adams Barbara Archer Jose Gran ...
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School Board Candidates on the Achievement Gap
School Board Candidates on the Achievement Gap
At the school board candidates' forum last week, candidates were given an insufficient amount of time to ...
At the school board candidates' forum last week, candidates were given an insufficient amount of time to respond to our question on the achievement gap, so we have asked it as the first of five weekly ...
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DJUSD Forum Addresses Transparency, LGBT Issues and DHS Starting Time
DJUSD Forum Addresses Transparency, LGBT Issues and DHS Starting Time
We are rolling out more of the responses from Wednesday’s forum. We apologize for the delay, but the site ...
We are rolling out more of the responses from Wednesday’s forum. We apologize for the delay, but the site transfer along with the length of the candidate’s forum has made this a much slower process th ...
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Analysis: A Game Changer For the School Board
Analysis: A Game Changer For the School Board
For years, it seemed, the school board was about one thing – holding off the economic collapse just long ...
For years, it seemed, the school board was about one thing – holding off the economic collapse just long enough, through community charity and fundraising drives from the Davis Schools Foundation, alo ...
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School Board Candidates Meet at Vanguard-DMA Forum (Video Now Posted)
School Board Candidates Meet at Vanguard-DMA Forum (Video Now Posted)
Last night over 100 people attended the first DJUSD School Board Candidates forum at the Davis Community ...
Last night over 100 people attended the first DJUSD School Board Candidates forum at the Davis Community Church in an event co-hosted by the Davis Vanguard and Davis Media Access. The candidates answe ...
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CSEA Endorses Adams, Archer, Fernandes For DJUSD
CSEA Endorses Adams, Archer, Fernandes For DJUSD
The California School Employees Association Davis Chapter #572 announced Tuesday that the organization ha ...
The California School Employees Association Davis Chapter #572 announced Tuesday that the organization has endorsed Tom Adams and Barbara Archer for the four-year seats on the Davis Joint Unified Boar ...
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Democrats Endorse Archer, Nolan, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
Democrats Endorse Archer, Nolan, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
The Yolo County Democratic Party (YCDP) announced today its candidate endorsements for the upcoming Novem ...
The Yolo County Democratic Party (YCDP) announced today its candidate endorsements for the upcoming November election. In the local school board race, they followed the recommendations of the DTA from ...
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DJUSD Candidate Pool Swells to Eight But Fernandes Still Unopposed
DJUSD Candidate Pool Swells to Eight But Fernandes Still Unopposed
The number of candidates has swollen to eight for four DJUSD School Board seats, but Alan Fernandes remai ...
The number of candidates has swollen to eight for four DJUSD School Board seats, but Alan Fernandes remains the only candidate for the two-year seat to which he was appointed in May. That appointment ...
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Five DJUSD Board Candidates File Financials; Sunder Leads the Way with $18,000 Raised
Five DJUSD Board Candidates File Financials; Sunder Leads the Way with $18,000 Raised
There are currently five candidates who have filed for the DJUSD school board race, and the Vanguard has ...
There are currently five candidates who have filed for the DJUSD school board race, and the Vanguard has received the filings from each. Thus far, Barbara Archer, Bob Poppenga, Madhavi Sunder and Chuc ...
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Barbara Archer Becomes First Candidate to File
Barbara Archer Becomes First Candidate to File
The filing period for school board has opened and Barbara Archer has become the first to file for the pre ...
The filing period for school board has opened and Barbara Archer has become the first to file for the presumed to be open school board seat. Barbara Archer, longtime community volunteer and PR profess ...
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DTA Endorses Four For Fall
DTA Endorses Four For Fall
The filing period for school board candidates in the fall has not even opened, but the Davis Teachers Ass ...
The filing period for school board candidates in the fall has not even opened, but the Davis Teachers Association already has their slate of candidates set. Already there were likely to be three open ...
| by David Greenwald