Online Forum Spotlights Candidates for School Board Seats in SB Unified and Goleta Union Districts
By Jerry Roberts of Newsmakers
Up against the Rams-49ers game for ratings, 10 candidates for five seats in two local school districts shared their views Monday night about literacy, sex ed, pandemic learning loss and a host of other issues facing public education.
A partnership of community groups, including The Resource Santa Barbara, the Coalition for Neighborhood Schools and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, sponsored a campaign forum featuring competitors for both the Goleta Union and Santa Barbara Unified district boards of educations.
The November 8 election is the first under a new district election system for local school board contests, and the candidates answered questions for 90 minutes about challenges confronting public schools, both universal and district-specific.
Participating in the event were:
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Three contenders for an open seat in SBUSD Trustee Area #1 - retired educator Efigenia Banales, student affairs professional Gabe Escobedo and parent Dan Le Berge
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The incumbent in the Santa Barbara district's Trustee Area #4, Rose Munoz, and her challenger, small business owner Phebe Mansur.
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The rivals in Goleta Union's Trustee Area #1 - incumbent and UCSB professor Richard Mayer, facing off against school teacher Caroline Abate.
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Two of three candidates in the Goleta District's Trustee Area #3 - teacher Christy Lozano and teacher Emily Zacarias. Also on the ballot is businessman Bert Haley.
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Ethan Bertrand, a Democratic Party activist, who is the only candidate for the seat representing Goleta Union's Trustee Area #5.
Among the more contentious matters were the sex education curriculum in Santa Barbara and a joint-use agreement between the City of Goleta and the School District.
The affair was co-moderated by longtime public schools advocate Lanny Ebenstein and Newsmakers' own genial host.
You can watch the forum via YouTube below or by clicking through this link. Check back for a link to the podcast version.
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Oct 05, 2022 08:33 PMYou’re making zero sense.
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Oct 05, 2022 08:36 PMhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alright
There are better reasons to criticize Basic ... like a) the fact that the criticisms of "Fair Education Santa Barbara" and its agenda of inserting religious ideology into our schools have already been laid out in response to his absurd comments about "improving" those schools and b) he's changing the subject from whether it was ok for him to "ridicule, laugh and insult" Jerry Roberts (among others protecting their own and other people's health).
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Oct 05, 2022 09:00 PM@8:33PM It makes sense to intelligent people, the sort who don't attack cancer sufferers for wearing a mask.
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Oct 05, 2022 09:10 PMAlright Marcel and Sac - tell us all who to vote for, and why. Thank you.
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Oct 06, 2022 02:17 PMFor you couple who are arguing semantics, and apparently having not been around the university for the past couple decades, it’s called the ITP. Just leave it at that and stick to real issues.
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Oct 06, 2022 02:56 PM"stick to real issues" - like what? You're the one who derailed this whole thing by making it all about the cancer-surviving moderator and his mask. What are the "real issues" you think we should be discussing here?
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Oct 06, 2022 03:05 PMBasic, as usual, is wrong. It's the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).
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Oct 06, 2022 03:09 PMFor those of you who haven't been around reality for quite some time:
https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
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Oct 06, 2022 03:34 PMIf you don’t think masking is a real issue for schools, I can’t help you Sac. There are candidates on both sides of it. Some are ready to mask and shutdown, others are not. Covid and other viruses aren’t going away.
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Oct 06, 2022 03:39 PM"If you don’t think masking is a real issue for schools" - where did I say that?
1) YOU, not me, said we need to "stick to real issues." I asked what those where. You failed to answer but instead put words into my mouth in an attempt to deflect, much like your RW/con/Rep buddies here.
2) I agree that is a real issue, if that is what you now want to discuss here. Good thing is, NO PUBLIC SCHOOLS are requiring masks right now. So........
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