As of Tuesday night, Danielle and Stephen Lindemuth appear likely to walk away as two of four Republicans to earn their party’s nomination for a spot on the Elizabethtown Area
The entire slate of school board candidates might be on your partyâs ballot on May 18, but donât be fooled: There are vast differences among those who are vying for party nominations this year.
Candidates running for school board, unlike many other elected offices, are allowed to file on both the Democratic and Republican tickets. Thatâs because school board director is considered a nonpartisan elected position.
But a closer look at the candidates in several races shows nonpartisanship is not always the case.
Take Elizabethtown Area, for instance. Every candidate in that race, regardless of whether they are registered Democrats or Republicans, filed as a Republican. Only the endorsed Democrats are on the Democratic ballot.
Wake Up, Elizabethtown! We have an important choice to make in the upcoming election for the Elizabethtown Area school board.
We have the opportunity to choose thoughtful, hardworking, respectful, inclusive candidates who will help improve our school district and our community. Kristy Moore, Sarah Zahn and Jagger Gilleland are three open-minded, forward-thinking people who are committed to allowing our next generation to become the critical thinkers we will need. They support encouraging our young people to read varied perspectives from numerous sources, to discuss and form their own opinions based on facts.
They also support respecting all people; transparency; teaching honest history to learn from it; social-emotional instruction and support in schools and bolstering both the academic program as well as extracurricular activities in our schools.