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Questions for school board candidates from "Issues and Action in Education", an e-letter of EdWatch, a non profit organization in Minnesota October 11, 2005
Following are some suggested questions to use to help evaluate your school board candidates. If you have a good candidate to support, please do what you can to help them get elected.
POLICY
- Do you oppose the collection and maintenance of data on student health, performance, attitudes, behavior, and family, as well as academics, in computerized databases?
- Do oppose routine mental health screening for all students?
- Do you oppose school-based health clinics, which may perform examinations, provide immunizations and medications, and dispense birth control devices and abortion referrals, without parental consent or knowledge?
- Do oppose "social and emotional" standards being incorporated into the curricula?
- Do you oppose accepting outside grants from wealthy special interest foundations and from state and federal government that set the district agenda, such as establishing smaller learning communities (a form of School-to-Work), expanding early childhood education, diversity training, and global citizenship programs?
- Do you oppose the targeting of commercials to students in the classroom through Channel One television?
- Do you support traditional class scheduling, as opposed to block scheduling?
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