Mercury 2025 Primary Election School Board Candidate Questionnaire
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Please provide your name, age, municipality of residence and the school board race in which you are a candidate.
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Have you ever held elected office before? If so, please list what office and when.
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Please provide your level of education, any degrees and institution which issued them as well as any professional experience you think relevant to serving on the school board.
4.
What is your position on the funding of charter schools, both of the brick & mortar and cyber variety? Do you feel funding reform is needed? If so, what?
5.
Do you agree with the court decision that declared Pennsylvania's school funding system to be un-constitutional? What should the legislature do in response to that decision?
6.
Do you believe the use of bathrooms, locker rooms and ability to play on school athletic teams should be determined by the sex assigned to a child at birth? Please explain why.
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Do you believe the unpleasant aspects of American history -- things like slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, red lining and the forced migration and suppression of the culture of Native Americans among others -- should be taught alongside the nation's more celebratory and traditional history? Why or why not and to what extent?
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Do you support the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education? Please explain why.
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Please outline your views on the use of vouchers, tax credits, or other sources of public funding, for use in paying tuition at non-public schools.
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Thank you for participating in this survey and for seeking public service. Feel free to add any other information you think relevant to your candidacy along with your email for verification. Also please email a headshot photograph of yourself in a .jpg digital format to ebrandt@pottsmerc.com