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Supports "keeping weapons and drugs off campus."

- Supports "keeping weapons and drugs off campus."

School Violence

Annandale Today, School board candidates outline their priorities at a Republican event

Wants to "focus on the fundamentals...reading, writing, and arithmetic."

Says “parents have the right to educate children the way they want.”

Says the top priority should be academic excellence.

- Wants to "focus on the fundamentals...reading, writing, and arithmetic."
- Says “parents have the right to educate children the way they want.”
- Says the top priority should be academic excellence.

School Curriculum

Wants research into how school funding is spent.

- Wants research into how school funding is spent.

School System Budget

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Kristin F. Ball

As of July 25, 2023, Ricardy J. Anderson’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Wants Middle Schools to start later in the day.

- Wants Middle Schools to start later in the day.

Supports increases to teacher's and staff pay.

Wants to "stop the practice of asking our PTAs/PTOs to provide funding for essential resources."

- Supports increases to teacher's and staff pay.
- Wants to "stop the practice of asking our PTAs/PTOs to provide funding for essential resources."

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Ricardy J. Anderson

- The school board runs the public school system, and it is entirely independent from the rest of the county government. 
- School board members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day. 
- Some school board members are elected by the entire city, while others represent specific districts. 
- School board members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.