About

We are Former D49 students, parents, stakeholders, and taxpayers.

We believe that a public school board should operate in support of the entire community and its unique needs. We respect teachers as experts and believe that we should uphold and value their role in society. And above all, we believe in making students the top priority, always. Access to a free, quality public education for all is necessary to create a community that can think critically, navigate complex issues, grow, change, and excel.

In advance of this off-year school board election, we’ve come together with a common goal of:

• Encouraging everyone to vote in local elections
  • The more local a government, the more impact on our daily lives – yet voter turnout for local elections is significantly less than for federal elections. We want to reverse this trend.
• Educating about the role of school boards
  • School board elections affect every subset of the population, every demographic, whether you have students in public school or not.
• Providing information about the real problems affecting D49
  • D49 struggles with the teacher pay gap, post-pandemic learning loss, behavioral breakdowns, heavily delayed facilities maintenance, and overall financial instability. We need to focus on these issues and find creative solutions to address them. Instead, much of our board is distracted by hot-button national talking points.
• Holding our school board accountable
  • From election season through the end of their term, it is a community’s responsibility to pay attention and hold its elected officials accountable. In D49, the majority of the board is engaging in culture war distractions that are trickling down from the national stage, rather than fixing real problems.
• Electing leaders who care about the community as a whole, including those with different life experiences.
  • We not only accept diversity, we celebrate it. Our local neighborhoods aren’t made of people who all look, think, believe, and act the same, and our local schools should not become centers for conformity.