RACE DETAILS
Home Page
Office/Race:
Olathe School District #233 - BOE
Position/District:
Board Member - Position 6
Term:
4 Year
Num Candidates to Advance:
1
Num Candidates each voter selects:
1
 
CANDIDATES [Click names to see candidate info and question responses.]
QUESTIONS SELECTED FOR THESE CANDIDATES
  • Age (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Family (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Occupation/place of employment (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Education (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Political experience (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Civic involvement (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Number of years you have been a resident of the city (Demographics / Personal Info)
  • Would you support an increase in the LOB (Local Option Budget) to enable the district to increase staff salaries? (uncategorized)
  • Do you believe that the cash balances of the school district are too low, about right, or too high? (General)
  • How do you feel about the district’s consideration of moving ninth grade students to the high school? (uncategorized)
  • What is your position on charter schools/vouchers that allow for public funds to be spent for private schools? (uncategorized)
  • What is the role of a Board member versus the role of the Board? What do you see as the major role of the board of education? (uncategorized)
  • What do you see as the major priorities of the school district for the next five years? (uncategorized)
  • What changes, if any, would you recommend in the school finance formula? (uncategorized)
  • Do you support recent actions by the Kansas Supreme Court to increase school funding? (uncategorized)
  • Why do you want to serve on the Board of Education and what makes you especially qualified to do so? (uncategorized)
  • If the Olathe District Schools Board of Education is called upon to make significant budget cuts in the 2009 and 2010 budgets, what approach you would take? (For example, should cuts be across the board or should they be more strategically targeted? If the latter, please list the first 5 budget items or categories you would examine to reduce, prioritized from 1 to 5.) (Education)
  • Our local school districts are facing the potential of cuts in previously proposed FY2010 funding increases due to the lack of revenue being generated, and projected to be generated, by the state. As a locally elected member of our school board, please explain your perspectives on the following issues:
    i. Should statewide tax rates be increased?
    ii. Should local tax levels (i.e. property taxes) be increased?
    iii. Should the Legislature grant greater taxing authority to school boards to utilize the Local Option Budget?
    iv. Should the local school district simply absorb the loss of revenue through spending cuts?
    v. Other thoughts/ideas? (uncategorized)