APS - Who is running for School Board?

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^^^^ Yes.

Attn Arlington Young Dems: you think by promoting this candidate, you're sticking it to Trump. You're not. In fact, you're participating in a dynamic -- the inability to engage with the differences between national politics vs. local politics, politicians vs. your neighbors, abstract issues vs. implementation in reality, what "the data shows" vs. how people actually live their lives day to day -- that is probably going to contribute to him getting re-elected.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the person above who claims Cristina "helped implement ESSA"-- that made me spit out my coffee. She spent *1 year* as a legislative "fellow" in Senator Whitehouse's office-- which anyone on the Hill will tell you is a fancy name for an internship. Not to mention that most of the work implementing federal legislation gets done by the agencies and not on the Hill. But keep padding that resume Cristina.

Building off the ridiculousness that Christina helped shape ESSA....the law was signed in 2015 which means most of the “shaping” happened when Christina was still a STUDENT. It was signed when she was barely into her first ever job as a TFA ill-equipped teacher. Let’s vote for candidates with actual experience and roots in Arlington.

Love all the republican taking points in this group. When the voters hear from Cristina personally, I believe her message will resonate with them. Change is coming!

Lol. So it’s “republican” to point out she’s an inexperienced newcomer who probability still has out of state plates on her car?

Once you see the word "republican" you are supposed to shut up and stop talking sense.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an absolute insult that she was chosen for JFAC. Scandalous really. The ACDC truly has no shame. It’s such a turn off, and gives us all a bad name.

Here are bios for each member of the JFAC. People can read and decide for themselves whether Cristina has a similar record of experience and community engagement as her fellow members, whether she is “an accomplished policy analyst”, as well as speculate how she was selected for an important committee.

https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/jfac/

Thank you for posting. I read all the bios. She comes nowhere close to the others’ experience. Anyone that has been around APS will recognize 3/4 of the names immediately from decades of presenting at school board meetings and from AEM’s creation (when it was a space for productive conversation.) Saying she is “an accomplished policy analyst” is blatantly false or means “ has held a job as a generic educational consultant for a couple years” which could be said for thousands of Arlington residents.

The fact that she is the central focus here is very very telling! If she is inexperienced, unqualified and unprepared, why such a feeling of threat? Shouldn’t you all just dismiss her as the child that you cast her to be? Most of the other candidates have hardly been mentioned. All the candidates will have the opportunity to equally debate each other, attend public forums and hear for themselves. All you have done at this point is to flush out debate talking points now for her campaign. I look forward to these public events and watching her build a bigger base. After that I look forward to electing this young leader in May!

We said it 5000 times. She’s the focus because she’s an under qualified newcomer that party hacks are foisting upon us. It’s pretty f’n clear the reason is to make sure the SB stays in its place and doesn’t do anything that might slow down the affordable housing gravy train.

And my guess is that she herself doesn’t even realize that’s why they picked her.

Wow. You must really think she is a complete idiot.
Of course she knows - and likely doesn't care because it adds to her resume and gets her on her way to where she wants to go politically.

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Anonymous wrote:The black and brown kids are going to get more of the resources they so desperately need. Oh no!!! What ever shall we do?!?!

Quite the opposite. The CB is addicted to AH development, and it’s become an industry that keeps a lot of white collar people a six figure income. Every year we open another multi family development that produces 100+ high needs kids. Does the county board plan for this? No. Do the nonprofit developers acknowledge that these developments have a large impact on schools, which need additional resources? No. Did one dime of the 20 million from amazon go to schools? No, every penny went to building more affordable housing, which will in turn bring hundreds more high needs kids to APS, and south Arlington in particular, with no additional facilities or dollars to serve them. To be blunt: poor families are a money maker for the powers that be and they don’t want to put aside any of that money for schools when they can pocket it themselves in the form of more developments and higher salaries. That’s why they want to control the school board, so that no one says, “hey, while you’re spending tens of millions on affordable housing, how about spending a little on educations, too?”

or heaven forbid dare to say, "build some over there and stop building it here because it's not in the best interest of our schools or our students. As if our SB would ever say such a thing, anyway.

As to the bolded statement above:
Yes - if what they want and need is high poverty schools segregated from opportunities
But actually, no - there will just be more black and brown kids getting the resources the ones already here need

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Anonymous wrote:The black and brown kids are going to get more of the resources they so desperately need. Oh no!!! What ever shall we do?!?!

Sock puppeting is very unbecoming.

Seriously, the Cristina sock puppet is so blatant and defensive I'm starting to wonder if it's not a seriously high-quality troll...

I think it's her campaign or PR manager.

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Anonymous wrote:The black and brown kids are going to get more of the resources they so desperately need. Oh no!!! What ever shall we do?!?!

Sock puppeting is very unbecoming.

Seriously, the Cristina sock puppet is so blatant and defensive I'm starting to wonder if it's not a seriously high-quality troll...

I think it's her campaign or PR manager.

Clearly someone close and emotionally invested. A few pages back someone said Cristina had a Master's in educational leadership and Comrade Socko shot back with "it's a master's in curriculum and instruction!"

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NP: I saw the arlNOW article listing the candidates and visited all their pages. I am really pleased to see equity and diversity being prioritized by candidates and so many of color, in as some pointed out, a minority majority county.

My personal ranking:
Sims
Priddy
Walker
Diaz-Torres
Munnell

I would be happy with the first 4 candidates - I can understand their platforms and I live in S Arl. Munnell needs to work on her platform - it read as tone deaf to me. Not that she's wrong, but I think she's missing the direction we're moving in. That said, I get the impression Munnell would be the candidate of N Arl. Is that correct?

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Anonymous wrote:NP: I saw the arlNOW article listing the candidates and visited all their pages. I am really pleased to see equity and diversity being prioritized by candidates and so many of color, in as some pointed out, a minority majority county.

My personal ranking:
Sims
Priddy
Walker
Diaz-Torres
Munnell

I would be happy with the first 4 candidates - I can understand their platforms and I live in S Arl. Munnell needs to work on her platform - it read as tone deaf to me. Not that she's wrong, but I think she's missing the direction we're moving in. That said, I get the impression Munnell would be the candidate of N Arl. Is that correct?

Everyone’s the candidate of north Arlington. That’s how it goes.

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Anonymous wrote:NP: I saw the arlNOW article listing the candidates and visited all their pages. I am really pleased to see equity and diversity being prioritized by candidates and so many of color, in as some pointed out, a minority majority county.

My personal ranking:
Sims
Priddy
Walker
Diaz-Torres
Munnell

I would be happy with the first 4 candidates - I can understand their platforms and I live in S Arl. Munnell needs to work on her platform - it read as tone deaf to me. Not that she's wrong, but I think she's missing the direction we're moving in. That said, I get the impression Munnell would be the candidate of N Arl. Is that correct?

Everyone’s the candidate of north Arlington. That’s how it goes.

FWIW, Arlington is 61 percent non Hispanic white, so not minority majority yet. Though I would guess SA has been minority majority for years and it’ll be many years more before NA is.

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Krieger is running. I didn't think I could have a candidate I would rank lower than Cristina until I saw his campaign website. He is running to 'keep communities together' and 'bring back summer enrichment'. Umm- how exactly do you want to account for new growth if 'communities' always have to stay together?
https://www.stevenforschoolboard.com/nice-to-meet-you

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Anonymous wrote:Krieger is running. I didn't think I could have a candidate I would rank lower than Cristina until I saw his campaign website. He is running to 'keep communities together' and 'bring back summer enrichment'. Umm- how exactly do you want to account for new growth if 'communities' always have to stay together?
https://www.stevenforschoolboard.com/nice-to-meet-you

Just what we need, a single issue grudge candidate. If the Key move happens it will be final before this guy takes office. So then what of his tenure?

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Anonymous wrote:NP: I saw the arlNOW article listing the candidates and visited all their pages. I am really pleased to see equity and diversity being prioritized by candidates and so many of color, in as some pointed out, a minority majority county.

My personal ranking:
Sims
Priddy
Walker
Diaz-Torres
Munnell

I would be happy with the first 4 candidates - I can understand their platforms and I live in S Arl. Munnell needs to work on her platform - it read as tone deaf to me. Not that she's wrong, but I think she's missing the direction we're moving in. That said, I get the impression Munnell would be the candidate of N Arl. Is that correct?

Everyone’s the candidate of north Arlington. That’s how it goes.

FWIW, Arlington is 61 percent non Hispanic white, so not minority majority yet. Though I would guess SA has been minority majority for years and it’ll be many years more before NA is.

Sadly, I see Arlington just getting richer and whiter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Krieger is running. I didn't think I could have a candidate I would rank lower than Cristina until I saw his campaign website. He is running to 'keep communities together' and 'bring back summer enrichment'. Umm- how exactly do you want to account for new growth if 'communities' always have to stay together?
https://www.stevenforschoolboard.com/nice-to-meet-you

Just what we need, a single issue grudge candidate. If the Key move happens it will be final before this guy takes office. So then what of his tenure?

Is he the change.org guy who helped stopped the site process, then we got the swap? Now his community is again up in arms for round 3. Yeah, not hopeful about this candidate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Krieger is running. I didn't think I could have a candidate I would rank lower than Cristina until I saw his campaign website. He is running to 'keep communities together' and 'bring back summer enrichment'. Umm- how exactly do you want to account for new growth if 'communities' always have to stay together?
https://www.stevenforschoolboard.com/nice-to-meet-you

Just what we need, a single issue grudge candidate. If the Key move happens it will be final before this guy takes office. So then what of his tenure?

Is he the change.org guy who helped stopped the site process, then we got the swap? Now his community is again up in arms for round 3. Yeah, not hopeful about this candidate.

That’s him. I know him and actually can’t think of a good thing to say about him. Arrogant doesn’t begin to describe him.

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Anonymous wrote:Krieger is running. I didn't think I could have a candidate I would rank lower than Cristina until I saw his campaign website. He is running to 'keep communities together' and 'bring back summer enrichment'. Umm- how exactly do you want to account for new growth if 'communities' always have to stay together?
https://www.stevenforschoolboard.com/nice-to-meet-you

Just what we need, a single issue grudge candidate. If the Key move happens it will be final before this guy takes office. So then what of his tenure?

At least he has kids in APS and is motivated by his interest in our schools, not a political career. None of the candidates are perfect, but so far Cristina is the only one to have no legitimate connection to our schools and it’s disgraceful that she’s being endorsed by the Arlington democrats. I’d rather a bunch of pissed off parents at the helm than someone without a vested interest in the day to day realities of our schools.