Hawaii Board of Education Election on Sat. in Kona

Posted on September 19, 2008. Filed under: Big Island Hawaii Events, Community Up-Building, Local Announcements | Tags: board of education, candidates, election, hawaii, kona |

Linda Morgan has sent me this email about the Hawaii Board of Education Candidates:

Hi friends,
I don’t mean to tell you how to vote on Saturday for our Big Island representative on the Board of Education, but I spent almost 3 hours on Monday searching for info on the 4 candidates running for this office, and it’s really hard to find information, so I want to share what I found.

Herb Watanabe has been our rep. for a very long time, and is definitely part of the disfunction of the Board of Ed., so he should only get our votes if we believe we have great schools, and I do not.

Bryant has not filed statements anywhere I could find online, so I assume if he is not competent enough to make his platform available, he cannot adequately represent us.

Walsh made some pretty silly statements about how he would improve education in Hawaii. He seems to be most concerned with “keeping order” in the classroom. The problems go way beyond poor student behavior!

Sanborn will get my vote, although with reservations. He supports decentralization, a good thing in my opinion. He also supports equal funding for charter schools, a pono idea. He sounds qualified and mostly on the right track in his statements. My reservations are about his interest in exploring vouchers.

If you haven’t had time to explore these candidates, I hope this note will help you make your decision.

Aloha,
Linda Morgan

Spread the word, yo!