Special Election for School Board — Voting Now!

A special election for an open seat on the FCPS School Board is underway and will culminate with in-person voting next Tuesday, March 3.  The open seat represents the Braddock District.  The position became available when the prior office-holder resigned to run for the county Board of Supervisors.

To vote in this special election, you must be a registered voter who resides in the Braddock District.  If you are unsure of your district, you can check by clicking HERE.  This site will also show the voting location for your precinct.

This special election is an opportunity to introduce diversity into what is now a monolithic, “progressive” School Board  Fairfax County citizens — regardless of their party affiliation — would greatly benefit by adding a moderate voice for fiscal responsibility and for excellence in education, without ideological bias.

Every member of the current School Board was endorsed by the Democrat Party when they were on the ballot.  In theory, this shouldn’t matter, because politics shouldn’t have anything to do with how our children are educated.  The ballot assumes nonpartisanship: It doesn’t indicate any party affiliation for the candidates.  But the political parties do endorse candidates, and since Fairfax County tends to vote “blue,” the Democrat-endorsed candidates have won in all recent elections.  Here’s the problem: The individuals who have put themselves forward for Democratic endorsement have almost all been political activists, not moderates; and most voters don’t take the time to carefully study what each candidate stands for.  This is how conformity, lack of diversity and political ideology take over school boards.

Fairfax Schools Monitor endorses Saundra Davis in the Braddock District election.  She is moderate, common-sense, and non-ideological.  Her priorities, which she summarizes on her website, are excellence in learning, without excuses; fiscal responsibility; protection of parental rights; and real oversight without one-party rule.  Her opponent makes no bones about being a “progressive” — someone who will conform to the views of all of the other eleven members of the School Board.  Diversity is needed.  Good governance requires all reasonable viewpoints to be represented.  Saundra Davis on the School Board would benefit everyone, whether they be Republican, Democrat or Independent in their party affiliation.

Success in adding an independent voice to the School Board requires personal commitments to turn out the vote.

Please vote if you live in the Braddock District, and encourage others to do so as well.  Early voting is available through Friday of this week from 9 to 5 at the Burke Centre Library, 5935 Freds Oak Road in Burke.  In-person voting at your normal precinct polling place is next Tuesday, March 3, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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