I do hope, when you cover TUSD, that you will cover the active members of the community that call for accountability for the district. The board meetings and a meeting held the other night about moving the desegregation around included some very important comments critical of the idea. There is usually another viewpoint than that of the district of their actions but it tends to get MUCH LESS coverage than "the official story". Particularly when it comes to using the deseg money as a district-wide ATM machine or slush fund, there is clearly always more than one side to the story. In addition, I would just like to add that endorsements are NOT always a good indicator of a candidate's value for the job: they may come because a candidate (especially incumbents) is better connected to the entity than others,or because a candidate is a member of a political machine that subsidizes volunteer workers, offers free office space, etc. or all of the above and more. Obviously endorsements have value, but probably not as clean a value as the sort of meritocracy that you imply that they represent. You only need to run one time to see all of the myriad ways that newcomers are at a gros disadvantage when it comes to endorsements, entry, attracting aid, volunteers, etc.
I do hope, when you cover TUSD, that you will cover the active members of the community that call for accountability for the district. The board meetings and a meeting held the other night about moving the desegregation around included some very important comments critical of the idea. There is usually another viewpoint than that of the district of their actions but it tends to get MUCH LESS coverage than "the official story". Particularly when it comes to using the deseg money as a district-wide ATM machine or slush fund, there is clearly always more than one side to the story. In addition, I would just like to add that endorsements are NOT always a good indicator of a candidate's value for the job: they may come because a candidate (especially incumbents) is better connected to the entity than others,or because a candidate is a member of a political machine that subsidizes volunteer workers, offers free office space, etc. or all of the above and more. Obviously endorsements have value, but probably not as clean a value as the sort of meritocracy that you imply that they represent. You only need to run one time to see all of the myriad ways that newcomers are at a gros disadvantage when it comes to endorsements, entry, attracting aid, volunteers, etc.