Election 2016 Dashboard for WCCUSD (West Contra Costa USD)

Updated 11/​8
Here’s a smor­gas­bord of links for the 2016 West Contra Costa Unified School District school board elec­tion: en­tries in Ballotpedia and Voters’ Edge, en­dorse­ment ed­i­to­ri­als, news­pa­per ar­ti­cles, an­swered ques­tion­naires, and can­di­date fo­rum record­ings.

• Election day re­sults on county web­site

Entries on General Voting Information Resource Websites

Here are the en­tries for WCCUSD #Election2016 on these sites.

• Voters’ Edge (used to be called Smartvoter)
• Ballotpedia (no longer crowd-edited like Wikipedia)
• Candidate state­ments on county elec­tions site

Endorsement Editorials

East Bay Times

News Articles

• School board can­di­dates vet­ted by Education Matters be­fore en­dorse­ment (Richmond Confidential 11/​8/​2016)
• Last-minute at­tack ad tar­gets board of ed can­di­date (Richmond Confidential 11/​8/​2016)
• High stakes in West Contra Costa school board race (East Bay Times 11/​2/​2016)
• Charter school or­ga­ni­za­tions pro­vide ma­jor­ity of cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions in school board race (Richmond Confidential 11/​1/​2016)
• Pro-char­ter money floods West Contra Costa school board race (East Bay Times 10/​20/​2016)
• School board can­di­dates dis­cuss char­ter schools, dis­trict fund­ing (Richmond Confidential 10/​10/​2016)
• First pub­lic fo­rum gives vot­ers glimpse of WCCUSD school board can­di­dates (Richmond Confidential 9/​22/​2016)
• West Contra Costa school board elec­tion could sig­nal change in course (East Bay Times 8/​31/​2016)

Candidate-Answered Questionnaires

There were many ques­tion­naires sent to can­di­dates. These are ones I know of that are “pub­lished” on the sites of the or­ga­ni­za­tions pos­ing the ques­tions.

• United Teachers of Richmond: [After the ini­tial post­ing of this ar­ti­cle, the teach­ers union took down the can­di­date state­ments.]
• Education Matters
• GO Public Schools West Contra Costa

Candidate Forum Recordings

These are record­ings of events that were pro­moted as open fo­rums and have record­ings avail­able. Most of the video is cour­tesy of one of the can­di­dates, Don Gosney.

1. El Cerrito Democratic Club (El Cerrito) 8/​27 [Audio Only]
2. West County United Methodist Churches (Richmond) 9/​12
3. League of Women Voters/​WCCUSD #1 of 3 (Richmond) 9/​19
4. BlackBoard/​Bright Futures (El Sobrante) 9/​22
5. Fairmede Hilltop Neighborhood (Richmond) 9/​29
6. Bayside Council of PTAs #1 of 2 (El Cerrito) 10/​3
7. GO Public Schools WCC (Richmond) 10/​4
8. League of Women Voters /​WCCUSD #2 of 3 (Pinole) 10/​13
9. Ad Hoc Parents Group (Richmond) 10/​21
10. Christ Lutheran Senior Center (El Cerrito) 10/​24
11. League of Women Voters /​WCCUSD #3 of 3 (El Cerrito) 10/​24
    
12. Bayside Council of PTAs #2 of 2 (San Pablo) 10/​26
13. RYSE Center (Richmond) 10/​27

Odd & Ends

• Candidate Contact Info
• A col­lec­tion of just the ques­tions from dif­fer­ent groups for WCCUSD can­di­dates
• WCCUSD Candidate Forums page

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I’ll up­date as needed.