A week from tomorrow (Tuesday) the voters will get their official say in who the next three school board ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The School Board Race, Nancy Peterson and Jose Granda
Monday Morning Thoughts: The School Board Race, Nancy Peterson and Jose Granda
A week from tomorrow (Tuesday) the voters will get their official say in who the next three school board members are, joining Susan Lovenburg and the appointed Alan Fernandes. The view has not changed ...
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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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Tom Adams on Race and Climate Issues
Tom Adams on Race and Climate Issues
On Friday, we posted the majority of responses on our third weekly question to school board candidates. ...
On Friday, we posted the majority of responses on our third weekly question to school board candidates. It turns out getting answers from seven candidates is a bit like herding cats. So on Saturday ...
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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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Enterprise Also Endorses Archer, Adams, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
Enterprise Also Endorses Archer, Adams, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
The Sacramento Bee and Davis Enterprise apparently agree on which three candidates should lead the DJUSD ...
The Sacramento Bee and Davis Enterprise apparently agree on which three candidates should lead the DJUSD School District. Yesterday we learned that the Bee had endorsed Tom Adams, Barbara Archer, and ...
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Bee Endorses Three For School Board
Bee Endorses Three For School Board
A few weeks ago, the Vanguard analyzed the school board race and concluded that at that time it was essen ...
A few weeks ago, the Vanguard analyzed the school board race and concluded that at that time it was essentially a race for third. Nothing has happened to change that view and the question will become, ...
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Adams on Achievement Gap and Common Core
Adams on Achievement Gap and Common Core
Editor’s Note: The Vanguard received no response from Tom Adams to our question last week on the Achievem ...
Editor’s Note: The Vanguard received no response from Tom Adams to our question last week on the Achievement Gap and this week on Common Core. The Vanguard reached out to a mutual contact and learned ...
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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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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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Should the School District Allow the Parcel Taxes to Expire?
Should the School District Allow the Parcel Taxes to Expire?
On Wednesday, the school board candidates were asked to weigh in on the parcel tax and whether it should ...
On Wednesday, the school board candidates were asked to weigh in on the parcel tax and whether it should be allowed to expire or whether they would support renewal. Specifically they were asked: “Give ...
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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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My View: CSEA Should Re-open Endorsement Process to Talk to All Candidates
My View: CSEA Should Re-open Endorsement Process to Talk to All Candidates
There has been a mixture of responses to the Vanguard’s story from Thursday that the CSEA endorsement pro ...
There has been a mixture of responses to the Vanguard’s story from Thursday that the CSEA endorsement process relied on candidates to contact them to set up a potential endorsement process, rather tha ...
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Was the CSEA Endorsement Process Fair and Open?
Was the CSEA Endorsement Process Fair and Open?
On Tuesday, the California School Employees Association, Davis Chapter #572, announced that they have end ...
On Tuesday, the California School Employees Association, Davis Chapter #572, announced that they have endorsed Tom Adams and Barbara Archer for the four-year seats on the Davis Joint Unified Board of ...
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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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School Board Update: Adams Files, Sunder to Farmer’s Market
School Board Update: Adams Files, Sunder to Farmer’s Market
Last week, we reported that there are now eight candidates in the DJUSD race, but Alan Fernandes is runni ...
Last week, we reported that there are now eight candidates in the DJUSD race, but Alan Fernandes is running unopposed for the two-year term after he was appointed in May to fill the spot vacated in Ma ...
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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 ...
| by David Greenwald