Wednesday, January 05, 2005

School board elections start

Assuming sufficient signatures survive, there will be three district school board races this April, but no primaries.

In the eighth district (south west side), Larry O'Neil decided not to run for re-election. The two candidates to replace him are Danny Goldberg and John Malloy Hagen.

Kevin Ronnie will run against School Board President Peter Blewett in the sixth district (west side).

Bernadine Bradford will run against Charlene Hardin in the fourth district (north side).

In the fifth district (east side and near south side), Jennifer Morales is unopposed, reflecting in part perhaps a belief that she was politically in synch with the political views of many of the east side activists and would be hard to beat. The lack of a contest also seems to reflect a lack of interest in MPS on the part of most east siders, few of whom have children in MPS.

More on this race as it develops. Coming up next: why MPS is important.


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