Enrollment:10,227Pay per student:$19.26, Enrollment:10,881Pay per student:$18.84, Enrollment:14,831Pay per student:$14.16, Enrollment:15,497Pay per student:$13.69, Enrollment:13,891Pay per student:$16.76, Enrollment:106,145Pay per student:$2.99. Maintaining fiscal responsibility would be a top focus for Hamilton if re-elected. display: block; The other three members of her slate, Judit Vega, Luke Amphlett and Yasmn Parra Codina, received 40 to 45% of the vote in their races. Alamo Heights ISD School Board of Trustees candidate Elise Kibler, center, answers a question as Brian Hamilton, left, and Jane Hughes, right, wait for their turn during a candidate forum at Alamo Heights Junior School Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Judging from the documents I have shared I do not believe we are heading in that direction. Apply today! I have called over 100 games . Incumbents Flo Bernal and James Sullivan, Jr. retained their seats. The first dealt with continuing to pay Los Angeles teachers who refused to return to schools late in the epidemic, holding students and parents hostage with superfluous demands unrelated to safety or education. In Precinct 2, incumbent . "The Alamo Heights School Foundation agreed to cover the start-up cost of the new alert notification system before TEA offered the grant to school districts," according to a statement from the district Thursday." "Now that we have the $9,523 . } If Harlandales board policy required candidates to win a majority of the vote, trustees would have had to either call a special election or appoint someone to represent District 3. Occupation: Chief Operating Officer for American Roofing & Metal Co. Inc. Education: Bachelor's in finance from Texas A&M University, law degree from the University of Texas, "Steady, proven leadership in uncertain times. margin: 8px auto; She is a former employee of the Oklahoma State Department of Education, according to a Norman Transcript article. Although school board races are nonpartisan, its never been hard to determine what political stripe a candidate bears depending on which school issues a candidate holds dear. Let's make sure this doesn't happen in our district! There should be full transparency, easy access to more information, and the invitation for constituents, teachers, and students to sign up to speak without repercussions. However, downtown residents and residents of the Monte Vista, King William and Lavaca neighborhoods opted for new representation in the San Antonio Independent School District. The district served 4,824 students during the 2015-2016 school year.[1]. } Vasquez and Sudolcan teamed up this year to run as a slate, saying that they wanted to maintain stability on the board. margin: 0px 10px; Alamo Heights ISD School Board of Trustees candidate Jane Hughes answers a question during a candidate forum at Alamo Heights Junior School Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. In a forum last month, candidates were asked how they would direct the district to handle transgender students use of campus bathrooms and locker rooms, a question that arose after one of the districts campuses made a temporary change in the way students used the restrooms. 8th Day Before Election Day. background-color: #6db24f; Support . Alamo Heights ISD School Board of Trustees candidate Jane Hughes answers a question during a candidate forum at Alamo Heights Junior School Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Staff writer Danya Perez contributed to this report. } letter-spacing: 0.03em; Early voting for the May 1 election runs from April 19-27. display: table; 24. External Relations: Moira Delaney Hannah Nelson Caroline Presnell To Hansens knowledge, there havent been many Democratic organizations looking to challenge what conservatives have been doing and she believes thats has been a mistake. 2. Spending more than 25 years in public education, according to the OKCPS school board website, Torres became the districts first Latina principal in 2004. Last spring when I contacted the AHISD administration to obtain information about the Equity Training for teachers, expressing my concern regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion being intimately related to Critical Race Theory and woke ideology, I was told in writing that it was not CRT, that Alamo Heights parents had started a rumor and dispersed information not from AHISD, and that it was all about equality. position: absolute; U.S. Congress | JANE'S FOUR PILLARS | MEET JANE | E-BLASTS | LINKS OF INTEREST, I believe I have experience and skills to add to the AHISD Board, especially in better reflecting the expectations of the community and improving transparency and collaboration.. The issue has become a major rallying point for Republicans from Florida to Idaho, where state lawmakers have moved to ban it. In reviewing most recent academic ratings for our Alamo Heights schools, a continued decline is noted in ratings from US News and World Report and others. Cities | The Board of Trustees serve at the behest of the residents of a district. The task of K-12 academic education is arduous enough without the siphoning of time to promote sociopolitical agendas. Challengers Stefanie Salinas had 358 and Raul Leonidas Nuques had 85. The second, again, concerned a national conversation about schools run by teachers unions in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore, where budgets are huge but results dismal, her email to supporters said of the April tweet. Clay Page defeated Elissa Sangster in the general election for Alamo Heights Independent School District school board Place 5 on May 1, 2021. Enrollment ('17-'18) 4,810 students. Trustees serve three-year terms. Irma Iris Duran de Rodriguez came close to coming out on top, with 31% of the votes. Prior to his time as Place 2 trustee, Hamilton was on the Alamo Heights School Foundation for six years, including a stint as the nonprofits president in 2017 and 2018. font-size: 12px; .indicate_scroll { please consider making your gift of support today. Comal ISD incumbent Tim Hennessee received 61% of the vote in his race, despite facing two challengers. Zapata was disqualified from the race due to residency issues. width: 50%; Nine out of the 10 incumbents on the ballot won reelection. However, because of a change the legislature made in 2019, they inserted language for school districts, not for cities and counties, but for school districts that says that it is, Woods said. He said he wanted to look for ways to assist students who might not be performing as well academically because of the pandemic and to find avenues for the board, educators and administration to more efficiently communicate with parents. And in Lake Travis, Erin Archer, candidate for place 3 on the Lake Travis school board, has seen her community become more engaged with the school district and how it operates more than shes seen in the last 15 years. He has children who are OKCPS students. Most of these PACs have been started in North Texas and have followed the Southlake playbook, in which mostly white parents in the North Texas suburb were able to place people on the school board that are against a plan to diversify its curriculum. More by Brooke Crum. } There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. } You may have recently received screenshots of two tweets that I posted from my personal account last year. .non_result_row th { text-align: left !important; But Woods said this proposal is mostly about giving more opportunities for students in older schools to succeed. Current board president and UTSA education professor Carol Harle easily won reelection in District 6, and incumbent Karen Freeman received the majority of the vote, even with a crowded field of three challengers. Vasquez said the district needs to regain the lost ground by making parents, staff and students understand that its safe to return. Critical race theory has never been something that Alamo Heights ISD or the school board has ever looked into putting into our schools or to train teachers about, Alfaro said in an email. I have the ability to to ask the appropriate questions to make sure that were representing each school department in a way that allows them to continue to teach our children in the best way theyre able, Kibler said. .votebox_legend .non_result_row { On ExpressNews.com: 3 candidates vying for seat on Alamo Heights school board. } Area residents planning to cast a ballot in the May 4 elections can look forward to races in Alamo Heights Independent School District and San Antonio. Hamilton said thats not acceptable, and he stressed that teacher salaries would be a high priority for him if re-elected. Comal ISD, located primarily in Comal County, also had an election to watch. Sorensen said she wants parents and students to have more of a say in their schools, and to bring more transparency to the budgeting process. Through the three grandchildren have I been involved in Alamo Heights sports and academics. Our high school was ranked 267th in Texas, a drastic decline from our 73rd position in 2008! Toward that end, Hamilton said, one of the first steps came when voters approved a tax rate in November that allows $1.4 million to go to teacher salaries and other educational programs. .electionsectionheading { Kevin Stitt appointed Jerome Marcus Johnson to fill the District 5 seat formerly held by Robert Everman. He said the group made recommendations to the board and looked into things like the schools dyslexia program to ensure that teachers are aware of all tools available to help students. } line-height: 1.5em; .race_header.republican { She also said she wants to have a committee focused on teacher morale to protect educators from unreasonable expectations that some parents might have, and wants to ensure that librarians could always keep control of the library books on their shelves. Torres was appointed to the seat in 2014 and served two years before winning two elections in 2015 and 2019 for back-to-back four-year terms. if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; Communications: Alison Graves Carley Allensworth Abigail Campbell Sarah Groat Caitlin Vanden Boom For information about early voting and election day sites, visit the Bexar County Election website. .race_header.green { Brett Beach . Steinhauser, who is a partner at a public relations and political communications firm called Steinhauser Strategies, has worked with Republicans such as U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshawof Houston and state Sen. Angela Paxtonof McKinney. I support what the board as a whole has been doing, and obviously you know now that theyre looking for a new superintendent, he said. 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