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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://51st.news/dc-election-2026-snow-response/

Among other things they asked candidates for office if they supported Bowser’s decision to open when she did.

Janeese Lewis George was vague but recognized how important school is beyond education, like free meals. (I’d have liked her also to point out that actually educating the kids is also really important.) Kenyan McDuffie didn’t answer the questionnaire at all.

Jacque Patterson, Candace Nelson, Dyana Forester, and Ryan Prince (all at large candidates I think?) all would have kept kids away from education longer.

Elissa Silverman (running for at large) had a good answer I thought, agreeing that schools should open and recognizing the challenges some faced by suggesting there be virtual options. Don’t know if that was feasible or not (and if available, might have become an excuse never to go back until everything melts) but it was clearly better than the others’.
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He will not speak on schools (assuming until it’s time to debate). He has not done much for schools beyond advocating for modernizations. He’s a big business kind of guy. He will be a worse or similar Bowser 2.0.

I have heard he also wouldn’t do the questionnaire from DCPS teachers either. That’s probably why he wasn’t endorsed. [/quote]

He was never going to be endorsed by WTU anyway. WTU is run by someone who wears an n95 mask in her social media profile pictures. Of course she's picking the DSA candidate.[/quote]

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