 Our Board of education incumbents and candidates' goals include:
- ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING INVOLVEMENT AND INPUT FROM STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS TO MAKE POLICIES IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR STUDENTS. - Insisting on TRANSPARENCY, CLEAR COMMUNICATION, AND COLLABORATION between the Administration, staff, parents, and students. - Implementing policies that will help INCREASE THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN OUR TEACHER/STAFF population. Over 25% of Ledyard High School graduates are Black and Brown, while our teachers do not come close to matching that ratio. - Empowering students and teachers to have HONEST, OPEN DISCUSSIONS about history and culture. - CONSULT with our local INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES on curriculums to ACCURATELY and APPROPRIATELY teach and represent indigenous people. - Fully APPRECIATING THE VIBRANT DIVERSITY IN OUR STUDENT BODY and celebrating all that makes us unique as well as all that unites us. As stated by current BOE vice chair Kate Di-Palma-Herb, “our staff should be representative of our student body and currently it is not. We are making progress toward our goal of a more diverse staff, but we are not done. Every student should see themselves represented in the staff and find trusted adults that they can lean on for guidance, mentorship, and understanding. I will continue to advocate for staffing goals that include diversity in hiring and an environment of inclusion.” (Source: https://www.vote411.org/ballot) To be absolutely clear, do ANY of our candidates advocate teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Ledyard Public Schools? Absolutely not - because there is no curriculum for CRT in grade schools. CRT is a collegiate and law school-level academic framework that examines how systems, policies, and the law perpetuate systemic racism. We hope this helps to clarify our candidates’ positions. Please send any questions to [email protected]!  Even after the shocking events of January 6 and the clear threat posed to our democracy, the Ledyard Republican Town Committee still bought into the "Big Lie" promoted by the former president.
They hosted "Fight Voter Fraud" at their March RTC meeting, a discredited organization whose frivolous lawsuits have been consistently thrown out in court (see comments for more info/links). The RTC's chosen speaker was "scolded for filing invalid complaints." The Ledyard RTC are too extreme for Ledyard. Enough is enough. We need a town government that is:
View our platform and candidate info on our website at www.ledyarddtc.com/candidates. Republicans like to say they are the party of fiscal responsibility and accountability, but under their leadership, Ledyard's school renovation project has dragged on, costing us taxpayers hundreds of thousands of extra dollars, while they repeatedly deflect blame.
The school renovation project has been badly managed by Republican leadership, who have not held irresponsible contractors accountable for fulfilling their contracts in a timely manner. Since we have been unable to close out these projects when they were supposed to have been already finished, it is costing our town tens of thousands of dollars EVERY MONTH that this project stays open. Ledyard Republicans have been unable to come up with solutions. Instead, they consistently try to blame others and downplay the seriousness of the problems. Enough is enough. We need a town government that is:
View the Democratic candidates' platform at www.ledyarddtc.com/platform and learn more at: www.ledyarddtc.com/candidates! |
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