Tonight is the Board of Education Candidates Forum at 6pm in the Hartford Public Library (main).
On November 3, 2009, Hartford voters will elect four members of the Hartford Board of Education. The Hartford Public School System is in the midst of significant reform efforts. Attend this forum to learn more about the candidates, their vision for Hartford schools, and their ideas and positions on the issues.
In a city where it seems most people make their voting choices entirely by which political party they belong to or by using second-hand information that is too often filtered by the media, it is especially important for the voters to actually meet and see the candidates in action.
If tonight’s forum is not an option for you, I would suggest checking out the BOE Candidate Focus series on Cityline, which has the candidates all responding to the same questions:
Achieve Hartford! has also compiled questions for the candidates. It is telling when candidates simply do not respond to such requests. Does this mean they have no answers? No time for explaining their perspectives to the public? No sense of commitment? Assumption that they’ll be carried by their political parties?
It’ll be interesting to see which candidates decide that the library forum is worth their time.