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School Board candidate forums for 2025

As they do every year, First State Educate hosts a series of candidate forums ahead of the May 13 School Board elections. Appo, Capital, Cape, Christina and Smyrna are virtual. Register for these school board forums here.  

The Brandywine forum will be held at Brandywine High School. No registration is required.

Note: the Colonial forum is cancelled because none of the open seats had challengers.

Delaware School Board Candidate Forum Recordings

List of meetings to learn about school board candidates

Links to any virtual forum recordings and any media coverage of the forums will be posted here.

Appoquinimink School Board Forum

Sandhya Celestin-Brown and Tim Higgins participated in the April 14 session.

Watch the Forum

 
Capital School Board Forum (Coming Soon)

All four candidates vying for 2 at-large seats participated in the April 15 forum.

Watch for Forum

 
Smyrna School Board Forum 

Two of the three candidates participated in the April 8 session. Read More (Delaware Public Media)

Watch the Forum

Watch highlights of the 2023 CRI education forum and learn the Delaware story

Each topic is summarized in six-minute clips about Delaware’s education system. 

Academic Performance & Spending – Dr. Tanya Hettler, Ph.D., CRI

Discipline, Violence and Bullying – Dr. Beth Conaway, retired administrator

Teacher Shortages & Student Absenteeism – Rep. Ruth Briggs King

Parental Involvement & School Choice – Britney Mumford, Delaware CAN

Greater Parental Involvement – Adam Coleman, author of Black Victim to Black Victor

Options in School Choice – Americans for Prosperity

 

Where are the parents in this fight for their children's education?

Where are the parents in this fight for their children's education?

Dr. Elana Fishbein asks during the 2023 town halls: what happened to all the parents who would jump in front of a bus for their children? 

Why are they afraid to publicly stand up for their kids? 

(2:14 minutes)

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