The August primary election in Duval County has four school board seats on the ballot. District 5 is an open seat because current board member Warren Jones has reached his term limit.
– Reginald Blount served 30 years in the military. He also helped develop adult continuing education programs at Florida State College. He’s a lifelong Jacksonville resident, and multiple generations in his family have attended Duval County schools.“I really want to do a strategic, just a sanitized budget from the state level, not to get people in trouble,” Blount said. “But to find out where is this money going.
He said if elected he wants children to feel safe in school, and he plans to fight to keep neighborhood schools open. “When you look at pico dollars, we have not been able to achieve the state’s funding pertaining to pico dollars in almost a decade,” Nicks said. “For what reason, I don’t know, but I would do my best to go through that budget line by line to see how there are opportunities to put back into maintenance issues as well as upgrades.”“I don’t want our children to have a temporary teacher and a full-time substitute,” Nicks said.
If elected he wants to ensure that all students are safe, and keep as many traditional public schools open as possible. He said the district needs to do a better job at marketing schools and the programs they offer. “I would really want to work with our school district, our superintendent, on telling the story of what’s happening,” Rogers said. “And I think if we tell the story again, we’ll win students back, we’ll win families back, and hopefully we’ll change the trajectory of the decline in enrollment because families can make a wise decision as to where they want to send it to kids.
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