kgjK W+ LlN-IrdK6K)LZ[JW!\C7_NcfO^.iq^Z)`:h-jYkU U@h;$cw)86a Arthur said if reelected, she hopes to continue to support the district in its efforts to support students and staff, as well as continue to maintain trust and collaboration with the districts unions. I'm concerned with where schools are going across the nation. All residents may vote on the two available seats, as well as the District's budget. /Length 1606 Please join us for a meet and greet with Carmel Clay Contact WFYI education reporter Lee V. Gaines at lgaines@wfyi.org. I believe that public schools should be focused first and foremost on preparing all of our children to participate in a job market that is increasingly more competitive and requires a deep understanding of technology, Sharp said. Submitted. Thank you all so much for the support. As first reported May 23 in the Wall Street Journal, the FTC is trying to determine whether leading manufacturers coordinated what are supposed to be competitive bids for contracts to supply states with formula under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program (WIC) that serves low-income families. Also, do you feel that length of time living in Carmel is a key factor in who voters should elect? Brown is running against candidate Jake Nichols. So we've grown very quickly, she said. I believe More than 48% of eligible voters in Hamilton County cast ballots in the mid term election. Candidates are: District 1 Sheldon Barnes Jenny Brake Stephanie Ann Flittner Kristin L. Kouka District 2 Lori B. The candidates for District 1 are Sheldon Barnes, Jenny Brake, Stephanie Ann Flittner and Kristin Kouka; candidates for District 2 are Lori B. Overall, Miller said shes satisfied with the results of the past election cycle, and shes already looking toward the future including the 2024 school board election and potential property-tax operating referendum to replace a levy set to end in 2024. Sorry I could not make >> Nelson-Williams, Kouka and Nichols campaign in support of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at Carmel-Clay schools, while the Brake, Brown and Sharp campaign claimed radical liberal teachers were indoctrinating Carmel students. Todd Young and Mike Braun, endorsed the Brake, Brown and Sharp campaign. Here's who is running for school board elections in suburban school districts. My LAST son, was DEVASTATED by COVID restrictions!! Breaking local stories that get national acclaim. He and his wife, Biana, have three daughters, one who graduated from Carmel High School, and the other two currently attending CCS schools. I have had 3 children graduate from Carmel HS. Three of the positions are on the ballot. 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Only Brown, one of the three members of the conservative slate, won a seat on the Carmel Clay school board. /K false Five members serve on this school board. Importantly, there was no reported harm to health from the introduction of foreign-made formula, contrary to the ostensible concern behind the tariffs, which is the need to uphold U.S. health and safety standards. Miller said she broke from the group because she wanted to work with the district to find solutions. Congress suspended tariffs, allowing imports to come in from Europe and elsewhere; the Agriculture Department, which administers WIC, allowed states to offer a wider variety of formula brands and packages than their current contracts covered. One at-large position, a Union Township position and an Eagle Township position are on the ballot. << * kids!! An analysis from Ballotpedia concluded that school board elections that were previously uncontested races drew slates of candidates who were motivated by three issues: race in education or critical race theory, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and sex and gender in schools. Creating a multi-stakeholder approach to education where market-demand skills inform curricula development. /K false John Curzio, II, 25, is a Carmel Central School Board trustee as well as a New York City police officer. More than half of states have social emotional learning standards for students in K-12 including Indiana according to the Center for The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Thats right! endstream x^+ r r 2020 SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE FILINGS Carmel Clay School Board, At Large (2 seats) Katie Browning 5086 TC Steele Lane Carmel, IN 46033 Louise Jackson 10903 Yorktown Crossing Carmel, IN 46032 Anne H Poindexter 13921 Wildcat Dr Carmel, IN 46033 Beth Glynn 3042 Apilita Ct Carmel, IN 46033 Susan Chamberlin-Dawes 939 E 101st St Carmel, IN 46280 9 0 obj your event, I was out of << WFYI is not using Avis full name to protect their privacy. They won decisively; the slimmest margin of victory was more than 14 points. /S /Transparency endstream Arthur said she thinks that students mental health is the most important issue in public education today. Four Candidates for Carmel School Board. /Kids [9 0 R] Brown said he aims to find common ground with his fellow board members and solutions that work for all students and families. The scores are abysmal and Ive been hoping that concerned candidates would step up run for school board members. ?4"LZvFEqe3Du3ICW(vCkpo:=T+NO!i:4;nlxORs%P8385YNl`>Jl%+"f) BD ik Yb1-s(h{xfU00krZ1=p5RK* jnzyle"@bq$8[% U.)Ys.rZk*mIZo>LH8Q8.JC?Kqt tD8IlNBdGaW$xmF F.5 . This trio of candidates came together around a common vision of restoring academic excellence in Carmel Clay Schools. Students at Indianas largest postsecondary institution get new path to bachelors degrees, Indiana science of reading mandates could create challenges for teacher preparation programs, Indiana charter schools could now have an easier path to acquiring district buildings, Indiana parents are kept in the dark as schools isolate and restrain kids thousands of times, Indiana cuts number of academic standards with a new statewide test coming soon, Indiana isnt holding schools accountable for forcibly isolating and restraining students. >> x^ R R Avi doesnt usually pay attention to school board elections. It is also my goal to make sure that every child feels seen and we help them to excel in whatever path they choose, Arthur added. /Parent 6 0 R :). >> The best tips on places to eat and things to do with or without the kids. And May said the idea that teachers are indoctrinating students and that the district is hiding critical information from parents is almost kind of laughable. May said he can easily access his childrens curriculum online. (Michael Conroy/AP Photo) 4 min. Did you know that the Hamilton County Reporter is built using WordPress? Samuels (70) a local author was elected chairman of Seasides citizens committee, Project Area Committee, in 2008. Candidates who campaigned on a platform of parental rights, opposition to critical race theory, and claims that schools are indoctrinating students in liberal ideologies won seats in multiple. Kids welcome! I NEED to know your views. There is one position available for the Carmel Clay district 1. I envision it as a road, and there's guardrails on both sides, he said. /Kids [11 0 R] /Resources << Jim Wise Wise has had seven children in the Carmel School District. Here's why you should care. >> I hope you know I am being lighthearted. I think it's giving people a really warped sense of what's happening in the vast majority of American classrooms, he said. Jim May is a Carmel Clay parent who became so concerned by the rhetoric from the Brake, Brown and Sharp campaign that he created a website to fact check their claims. endobj 12 0 obj are a Conservative that stream A candidate for the Carmel Board of Education said Sunday he was dropping out of the race after a series of racist, sexist and Islamophobic Facebook posts under his name surfaced over the. CARMEL A slate of nine candidates, including two incumbents, are running for three spots on the Carmel Unified School District's board of education this fall. /Contents [21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R] Conservative school board candidates feared indoctrination. What's next School districts in suburban counties have continued to stressthat critical race theory, which is a college-level course seen in law schools, is not being taught in schools. His son graduated from Carmel Clay High School in 2007. (Photo provided) Posted By: The Reporter September 4, 2022 >> If you are a liberal activist, you wont get my vote! We see that in our community. Someone who knows that our greatest assets are the people in our community. I don't know, Brown said. /Kids [12 0 R] /Resources << We must continue to answer to the needs of our students and provide opportunities for them and their parents to seek the resources necessary to succeed, Arthur said. The race in Carmel was close, with neither slate claiming landslide victories in what are supposed to be nonpartisan races. Carmel school board candidate drops out after backlash against racist endobj Board - Carmel Clay Schools What happened in Carmel mirrors local school board results across the country. The trio of Jenny Brake, Greg Brown and Adam Sharp were among hundreds of conservative candidates who ran in school board races across the country this past election cycle. Stephanie /Resources << The other two candidates on the conservative slate running with Brown, Adam Sharp and Jenny Brake lost by similarly narrow margins. 1:01 In less than two weeks, the Carmel Clay School Board will vote on who will be its newest member from a pool of four finalists. /S /Transparency Conservative school board candidates won seats on school boards in states like Florida and South Carolina, but many failed to win races in places like Michigan and California. And I think what we're seeing is a reflection of that in these school board election results, Valant said. Did I mention when we met that I cofounded and built two IT companies. Sharp's platform emphasizes building on CCS academic programs, focusing on fiscal responsibility, providing kids with a broad subject range to study, and improving what he defined as a declining focus on academic achievement. Steph I NEED to know The board is made up of five members, four representing particular districts and one serving in an at-large position. Avi learned about the school board race in Carmel from their dad, Phil. If you are all-in on teachers Unions, you will NOT get my vote! /Parent 8 0 R Two of these positions will be a part of the fall election. My blog uses the same WordPress Platform. Wouldnt that make a difference to the monetary equation the mayor used to, Sue Finkham and Miles Nelson. Adam Sharp is running for this position and is the CEO for health care and tech company Galvan and is a recently-retiredER physician. 0^z=/P(5QAMrB~`tk/t'1vKp/(#h$m}JfZ]Ed[Qts9 aw=c5)iH^yp3z]JS There are groups with nationwide political agendas involved here. Baby formula displayed in a grocery store in Carmel, Ind., on May 10, 2022. /Resources << We did have serious reservations and concerns about our future in the Carmel Clay school district, he said. Please visit ccsboardcdandidates.com to learn more about Jenny, Greg and myself. Samuels said he decided to run for the districts governing board member position because he wants to work to keep politics out of the school system. He has demonstrated to me that if I come to him with an issue, he will listen, do the research and ask questions of the right people, and come back with an answer. /Parent 2 0 R They say indoctrination of students isnt a real issue. Pro-parental rights candidates supported in social media posts by the Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty swept to victory in Hamilton Southeastern schools which neighbors Carmel and now hold a majority on the seven-member board. Brown was sworn into a four-year term as Carmel Clay School Board member on Jan. 9. Unless and until those are fundamentally reformed, the infant formula supply chain will remain vulnerable to another devastating rupture. Arthur said shes running for reelection because she cares deeply about the future of the district and those in it. /Type /Page /Type /Page Coverage on real estate development, housing growth and what that means for home prices in the Circle City. She claimed students were being surveyed on issues like abortion and Planned Parenthood funding. Can we count on ALL OF YOU to combat this Critical Race Theory, which is JUST a theory, within our Carmel Community Schools? >> This school board is made up of five At Large seats, two of which are on the upcoming ballot. I think this has just been terrible for the morale of our teachers. How those viral deals work. Virginia makes a mistake by pulling out of an election fraud detection group. Brake lost by 117 votes, less than 1 point, to Kristin Kouka. Follow her on Twitter:@CarolineB_Indy. Good. /Pages 2 0 R Regarding how long a candidate has lived in Carmel, I believe this will be the least important factor to voters. CCS Board /Group << Jenny Brake is running for this seat and was a director of guest and member services at College Park Church in Indianapolis and volunteered as the opening night chairman for the Heartland Film Festival. << Attempting to hold down spending on state WIC programs by manipulating price and supply, the United States created situations in which, frighteningly, all parents rich or poor had a hard time getting formula. >> endobj Mobile apps including immersive storytelling. Lori Long & Stephanie Flittner Carmel School Board Candidate Under Fire for RacialPosts Date: Saturday September 24, 2022 Directors serve a three year term which includes: monthly meetings . There is no denying that teachers spend money out of their own pockets . Sharp is running against candidates Lori Long and Jennifer Nelson-Williams. Please honor your commitment for COMPLETE transparency of Carmel government finances! The Carmel Education Foundation will hold a "Conversation with Candidates," a Carmel Clay School Board Candidate Forum, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20. /CreationDate (D:20200730190900) Valant said voter perspectives on schools and the world at large vary from community to community. School Board Candidates: However, the tariff suspension expired at the end of 2022, and the last of the state waivers for WIC purchases will end on June 30. Just three companies Abbott, Reckitt/Mead Johnson and Nestl/Gerber hold all the state WIC contracts. 5 0 obj Follow on Twitter: @LeeVGaines. /AcroForm 3 0 R Brown said he doesnt have any evidence to suggest liberal indoctrination is happening in Carmel Clay schools. D.C. Council reverses itself on school resource officers. Conservative school board candidates compete in Carmel Then the government should spend whats necessary to help poorer families afford what their babies need. >> Members of the group disrupted Carmel Clay board meetings and read passages from books with transgender characters and others they believed were sexually explicit. Carmel Clay 1 Editors note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed authorship to the Carmel Education Foundation. Many candidates, including the conservative slates in Carmel, HSE and Noblesville, have aligned themselves with well-known conservative politicians, driven by the national conversation around what many critics have called "critical race theory" but is more often about how schools teach about race, sex, politics and our nation's difficult history. Parents across the state say that even when they are notified, the information theyre given about their child being secluded or restrained can lack details. 23 Jun 2023 21:18:30 Arthur (55) was also elected as a governing board member in 2018. Meet the candidates for the Carmel Clay School Board /Contents [13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R] Contact IndyStar reporter Caroline Beck at 317-618-5807 orCBeck@gannett.com. The Brake, Brown and Sharp campaign sent out a message a week before the election that claimed radical liberal teachers were indoctrinating students. Nearly 71 percent of all students are White and less than 11 percent qualify for free or reduced meals due to family income, according to state data. The idea was that, in return for a monopoly on the WIC business, which makes up roughly half of all sales, companies would sell to WIC clients at a discount, saving the government money. Carmel Clay Superintendent Michael Beresford said such a political narrative was false and insulting to teachers in a public video message released following the campaign email. /Resources <<>> Greg Brown smiles after being sworn in as a member of the Carmel Clay School Board on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 at the district's central office. A new report shows wide disparities in how well Indianas teacher prep programs have adopted the science of reading. (Lee V. Gaines/WFYI). Follow whats happening in Indiana schools in our newsletter, delivered every weekday. (You can unsubscribe anytime), Conversations With Candidates videos feature Carmel school board races, Snapshot: The Arts in Autumn festival debuts, Seeking Support: Westfield Washington Schools seeks referendum renewal in Nov. 8 general election. /XObject << In addition to voting to approve or reject the proposed annual budget to operate Carmel schools on Tuesday, May 15 Carmel Central School District voters will also vote to fill two open school board seats, for which there are four candidates, comprised of one incumbent and three newcomers. The Carmel Education Foundation, OneZone Chamber of Commerce and Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation partnered to present the Conversations With Candidates series, which includes one video for each school board race. "I have had a child in every grade," he said, noting four have graduated and his three youngest kids are still attending the district's schools. I had recently seen a graph showing a significant decline in Ilearn beginning in 2014, with a plummet in proficiency after the pandemic. 'We're not giving up':Failed 'anti-CRT' legislation fueling school board races. Are you 8 0 obj /Type /Catalog If you would like to make a personal, tax-deductible contribution to her position, you can make a one-time donation online or a recurring monthly donation via IndyStar.com/RFA. The school board has seven members, four of which are on the ballot. All five of these seats on this school board represent Washington Township. After months of reviewing and interviewing multiple candidates for the upcoming CCS School Board elections, Support CCS is very happy to announce our endorsement of the following candidates. Some districts across our nation have shifted their focus from academic excellence to other programs, including Carmel. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. REGISTER NOW Cant seem to get an answer out of anyone. State laws for school board races could also change. Candidates with over 100 years in Carmel file for school board If you are a conservative, who believes in Parent involvement (which this community ALWAYS has had), you have my support! Carmel Clay Schools have been the premier district in Indiana for many years, Brown said. endstream /14427f81-cde6-4305-982d-e3d8658d1923 28 0 R Clarification: This story was updated to clarify Paige Miller's connection to the Carmel Clay school district. 1 is that the overall format of testing has changed and comparing test scores in 2022 to 2015 or 2012 is truly apples and oranges. Anyone who cites stats saying, look at how those numbers dropped! is playing a manipulation game. Because of the fact that I was worried that these candidates were going to get seats and then be able to greatly affect my school and my life, Avi said. MY MAIN ISSUE!! Here are the school board candidates for some of the districts in Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks and Johnson counties that Indiana residents can vote for in the 2022 general election: The school board has five seats, three of which are up for election. /Kids [10 0 R] I am a mother and grandmother living in this wonderful community and I have been concerned with how the education has been worsening. September 4, 2022. I am glad it didnt take you 100 years to discover the Hamilton County Reporter and social media . As a parent of school-age children in Carmel I also keep a close watch on the state of education in our wonderful city, but I cannot disagree more with the notion that a CCS education is worsening. There are several factors at play here, and No. endobj He is AT LEAST, 1 & 1/2 years to 2 years behind in his education. 15 0 obj The group aims to install like-minded people in school board seats across the country. Candidates represent a specific district, but Carmel voters regardless of where they live within the city are able to vote in each non-partisan race. Brown also doesnt believe students should be asked to share their pronouns. /BBox [0 0 816 1056] Teacher Unions? /Count 4 Thank you! * Carmel Clay Schools: 4 finalists selected for vacancy on school board Answers would be nice! /Type /Pages Carmel school board candidate: Good governance means working as one team read more 2023-2024 Budget Information 2023-2024 Budget Statement & Information (PDF) Budget Hearing Presentation: May 2, 2023 2023-2024 Budget Newsletter (Web) I am not saying that Carmel has lots of progressive teachers that are doing these things. Avi doesn't usually pay attention to school board elections. /CS /DeviceRGB My family will be following you and supporting your run. Hull House on Twitter: "Here in Carmel, IN we are pushing back and << 100% Republican lawmakers introduced bills this month that would require candidates to declare affiliation with a political party and move up the time a person must declare that candidacy for a school board. /Count 1 How many dead moms will it take to stop Americas maternal mortality epidemic? the Liberals from the A candidate for the Carmel Board of Education said Sunday he was dropping out of the race after a series of racist, sexist and Islamophobic Facebook posts under his name surfaced over the. Never been a big social media guy though. /Group << It seems like the sort of push from the right worked electorally in some places and it didnt work in others, said Jon Valant, a senior fellow and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. The momentum is building. CARMEL Four candidates will compete for two seats on Carmel Unified School Districts Governing Board in this months election. Her expertise is in business administration as well as serving in numerous leadership roles. >> Brown said he is running for school board after reviewing the CCS proficiency scores, which are below 70 percent as reported by the schools administration. The 16-year-old is nonbinary and attends Carmel Clay schools, an affluent and majority White . Heres a Fact: Carmels overall district average ILEARN scores for 2022 beat Zionsville and Hamilton Southeastern, plus Evansville, Bloomington and Lafayette. endobj Members of the Editorial Board and areas of focus: Opinion Editor David Shipley; Deputy Opinion Editor Karen Tumulty; Associate Opinion Editor Stephen Stromberg (national politics and policy); Lee Hockstader (European affairs, based in Paris); David E. Hoffman (global public health); James Hohmann (domestic policy and electoral politics, including the White House, Congress and governors); Charles Lane (foreign affairs, national security, international economics); Heather Long (economics); Associate Editor Ruth Marcus; Mili Mitra (public policy solutions and audience development); Keith B. Richburg (foreign affairs); and Molly Roberts (technology and society). The idea that theres widespread indoctrination of students is a result of a media landscape that has amplified isolated incidents and made-up stories, Valant said. I have truly enjoyed getting to know them as we found each other and decided to run as a slate. Meet our 2022 Board of Education Candidates: Join us for a live-stream virtual event to meet the candidates running for election to the Board of Education on Tuesday, May 10, at 7 p.m., on the CCSD website: https://bit.ly/2QKbImJ A list of candidates who will be on the ballot will be available on May 5 at carmelschools.org.. I'm a mother of two young children, the current president of the Junior League of Indianapolis, a full-time lawyer for a top local construction firm, and a candidate for Carmel Clay School Board elections that will be decided this November. A simple craft activity and light snacks will be available. x^[sF;O7qC4}X"d; That money needs to be used on real Noblesville residents. She then co-founded the Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty last year. /Type /Pages Brake & Sharp! And the bottom line to all of this is it is taking time away from our curriculum.. Jenny Brake, running for District 1, a wife, mother, grandmother, and Carmel High School graduate, has lived in Carmel for 59 years and married her high-school sweetheart, Ron, also a Carmel graduate. >> This school board includes five members. For so many minority kids, school is already Hell, Avi said. If you value Chalkbeat, consider making a donation. November 8, will have a How do we structure things in such a way, that if this does rear its head again in 2024, we can just attack it head on as soon as we see the first signs of it, and really not give it a chance to take root in the community..
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