Southwest Washington Education (K-12)

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”– Socrates

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Education Questions for 2016 Election

We prepared and emailed a list of nine (9) education questions (2016_Candidate_Education_Questions) to people who had registered to run for an elected office in the State of Washington that could vote on or impact education – with a focus on South West Washington. For those running for the US House (District 3) and the US Senate we chose seven (7) questions and asked them to respond: 2016_US_House_Senate_Candidate_Education_Questions_Final

In the end we established a due date of June 30, 2016 (midnight) after which any submissions would not be accepted. Why the cutoff? We want to make sure no candidate could read the responses of others and then craft their answers for advantage. So, to be clear, all candidates who responded by the deadline have their comments next to their name below.

Feel free to download our questions and email them to candidates and ask them for a response. If you choose to do that and get answers back please share them with us. We would love to get them although we won’t publish them. Given the importance of education we NEED to know where the candidates stand.

Why might not someone have responded?

  1. They didn’t care?
  2. They didn’t know how to answer?
  3. They thought their answers would hurt them?

Should you vote for someone if they didn’t respond? That is, of course, up to you. From our perspective failure to respond has meaning.

So, who responded and who didn’t by position? Following is each position we reached out to:

State Superintendent of Schools (6 out of 7 responded)

Erin Jones: Erin Jones Questionnaire

Chris Reykdal: 2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_Reykdal

Robin Flemming:

Ron Higgins:  SWW education questionnaire.response_Ron_Higgins 

David Springs:  2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_from_David_Spring

Grazyna Prouty – Grazyna Prouty ANSWERS to SWWEducation.org – June 13, 2016

Al Runte – Al_Runte_SWW_Education_Survey_Responses_2016

Governor (2 out of 11 responded)

Jay Inslee:

Bill Bryant:

Bill Hirt:

Patrick O’Rourke:

David W. Blomstrom:

Mary Martin:

Steve Rubenstein:  2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_SteveRubenstein

Goodspaceguy:

Johnathan Dodds: Johnathan_Dodd_ANSWERS – 2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_May_2016

Christian Pierre Joubert:

James Robert Deal:

Lt. Governor (0 out of 11 responded)

Javier Figueroa :

Brad Owen : 

Karen Fraser  :

Cyrus Habib  :

Mark Greene:

Paul Addis:

Phillip Yin:

Steve Hobbs:

Marty McClendon:

Bill Penor:

Daniel B. Davies:

Karen Wallace:

17th District – House (2 out of 11 responded)

(Position 1) – Vicki Kraft –

(Position 1) – Sam Kim –

(Position 1) – Jerry Oliver – J.Oliver_17th_House_Seat

(Position 1) – Tanisha Harris –

(Position 1) – Don Orange –

(Position 1) – Melanie Davis –

(Position 1) – Joshua Egan –

(Position 1) – Rob Frisina –

(Position 2) – Paul Harris – Paul_Harris_Candidate_Education_Questions_2016

(Position 2) – Martin Hash –

(Position 2) – Richard Colwell –

17th District – Senate (0 out of 2 responded)

Lynda Wilson:

Tim Probst:

18th District – House (2 out of 8 responded)

Brandon Vick (Position 1) –

Karen Jankowski (Position 1) –

Justin Oberg (Position 1) –

Lisa Anderson (Position 1) –

Liz Pike (Position 2) – Pike SW WA ED Org.Cand

Shane Bowman (Position 2) –

Kathy Gillespie (Position 2) – Kathy_Gillespie_SWWEdquestionnaire

Ilana Brown (Position 2) –

18th District – Senate (0 out of 2 responded)

Ann Rivers –

Eric K. Holt –

49th District – House (2 out of 6 responded)

Sharon Wylie (Position 1) –

Kaitlyn Beck (Position 1) –

Carolyn Crain (Position 2) – 2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_Sent_Jan_27_2016_Carolyn_Crain

Monica Stonier (Position 2) –

Alishia Topper (Position 2) –

Wade McLaren (Position 2) – Wade_McLaren_49th_2016_Candidate_Education_Questions

49th District – Senate (1 out of 4 responded)

Annette Cleveland –

Justin M. Forsman –

Vaughn Gregor Henderson –

Lewis Gerhardt – Lewis_Gerhardt_49th_Senate_2016_Candidate_Education_Questions

US House (2 out of 6 responded)

Jamie Herrera Beutler – Jamie_Beutler_2016_US_House_Senate_Candidate_Education_Questions_Responses

Angie Marx (D) –

David McDevitt (D) –

L.A. (Worthy) Worthington –

Kathleen (Grandma Warrior) Arthur –

Jim Moeller – 2016_Candidate_Education_Questions_Jim_Moeller 

US Senate (6 out of 17 responded)

Chris Vance: C_Vance_SWWEducation_Questions_Response

Patty Murray:

Ted Cummings – Ted_Cummings_USSenate_SWWEducation_Question_Responses

Alex Tsimerman –

Sam Wright –

Mike Luke – Mike_Luke_US_Senate_Education_Qs_Responses

Donna Rae Lands – Donna_Lands_ US_House_2016_US_House_Senate_Candidate_Education_Questions

Uncle Mover –

Chuck Jackson –

Philip L. Cornell –

Scott Nazarino – Scott_Nazarino_SWWEducation_Questions_Responses_June_2016

Pano Churchill –

Mohammad Said – SWW Education.2016_US_House_Senate_Candidate_Education_Questions_M_Said

Thor Amundson –

Jeremy Teuton –

Zach Haller –

Eric John Makus –

 

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