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This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2018.
9 candidates ran for TUSD Governing Board in Nov. 2014: Adelita Grijalva, Michael Hicks, Jen Darland, Don Cotton, Debe Campos-Fleenor, Betts Putnam-Hidalgo, Rene Bernal, Miguel Cuevas, Francis Saitta (in order of the votes they received). And only 5 candidates for these same 2 seats this November.
I live outside TUSD so I don’t have a vote but if I did I can’t imagine any circumstances in which I would vote for a fifth term for any candidate unless I saw proof positive that the district was in substantially, verifiably better shape now than it was when that candidate ran for the first time. And when trying to decide which non-incumbents to support I’d be looking to see their grades on the old reliable ‘Works Well With Others’ scale. Nobody who’s just aching fora fight or who has a hair trigger temper ought to get any consideration. And party affiliation is no qualification for service on a school board. Please folks, it should be all about the kids,