Before we consider the third question we included in our voter guide for the following election, Chairman, Prince William County School Board, At Large, we have an admission. None of the candidates responded to our survey. Therefore, we have decided not to release results.

So what will we do? With this post I have provided a complete list of the questions. In addition, we have included news articles that you can use to determine how the candidates might have answered our questions.

Here are the questions.

1. Do you support or oppose allowing home school students to participate in school sports programs?
2. Do you support or oppose allowing the school board to have taxing authority to impose taxes dedicated to Prince William county schools?
3. Do you support or oppose giving school boards more control over the hiring and firing of teachers and administrators?
4. Do you support or oppose using only abstinence-based sex education curricula?
5. Do you support or oppose teaching that “sex is assigned at birth” in Family Life Education classes?
6. Do you support or oppose allowing students to use school restrooms, locker rooms, showers of the gender with which they identify, even when inconsistent with their biological sex?

Here are relevant news articles.

• PWCS School Board Chairman Candidate Babur Lateef Wants Less Drama, More Student Success (bristowbeat.com)
• Satterwhite: ‘A School Board that is constantly distracted by politics is not able to focus’ (bristowbeat.com)
• PWCS School Board Candidates Discuss Funding Class Size Reductions, Salaries (bristowbeat.com)
• Prince William School Board chair election has familiar faces, so far (insidenova.com)
• Lateef calls for more school funding; Satterwhite defends vision at forum (insidenova.com)
• Candidates debate teacher pay, school safety in Prince William School Board chair debate (insidenova.com)
• Prince William School Board candidates aim to turn the page on Sawyers, talk funding, security (potomaclocal.com)
• Funding, or lack thereof, a key topic in first school board chair debate (princewilliamtimes.com)

The next three posts in this series will complete this series by explaining the importance of the first three questions.

The election for Chairman, Prince William County School Board, At Large, is scheduled for November 6, 2018 (see 2018 ELECTIONS). Please investigate the candidates before you vote.