Fresno Unified trustees, who have been holding their public meetings electronically since the start of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago, will meet on April 7 at Roosevelt High School. The meeting will be the first opportunity for community members to directly address board members in over a year. Public...
Challengers Outraise Incumbents in Key Valley Races. Will It Matter at the Polls?
Candidates for state and local office reported how much they raised for the November election. Aside from state and national races, voters within the cities of Fresno and Clovis will decide several school board contests. Politics 101 reviewed the latest financial reporting data, covering the period through September 19. Incumbents don't...
Terry Cox Won’t Seek Another Term on Central Unified Board
The biggest development in Fresno-area school board races perhaps is who won't be on the November ballot. Longtime Central Unified trustee Terry Cox tells GV Wire℠ that she won't run for a sixth term. Cox says that after 20 years on the board she wants to focus on her job as...
2020 Election: Who’s Running for School Boards?
While the November ballot will have a major race on top of the ticket — president of the United States — there will be no races for city or county elected offices. The Fresno mayoral and council races were wrapped up in the March primary. Same with county supervisor races....
Five Candidates Apply for Vacant Clovis Unified Trustee Seat
The six members of the Clovis Unified school board interviewed five candidates Thursday night to fill a vacancy and join them on an interim basis. The board chose to appoint a candidate after longtime trustee Brian Heryford retired last month. The appointee would complete the remainder of a term expiring...
What Might Censure Mean for Fresno Trustee Slatic?
The Fresno Unified School Board will consider taking the rare step of publicly reprimanding one of their own at next Wednesday's board meeting. But there seems to be disagreement among the trustees as to exactly what impact a censure might have on trustee Terry Slatic. Slatic, who represents the Bullard...
Angry School Board Chastises Slatic Over Cheerleader Controversy
For much of Thursday night's school board special meeting, Fresno Unified trustee Terry Slatic sat at the dais, hands folded, nary an expression on his face. The meeting was called to discuss recent actions by Slatic — who has found himself embroiled in several controversies since he joined the board...
Can Fresno Unified Trustees Get Along? They Meet to Find Out.
Officially, the purpose of Wednesday’s (May 22) special Fresno Unified school board meeting was a “governance check-in.” In reality, it was nearly two and a half hours of trustees airing grievances over things like confidentiality, board behavior and agenda-setting. And while no trustee would say as such, the meeting also...
County School Board Candidates in Their Own Words
The Area 1 seat on the Fresno County Office of Education board is open, and three candidates are campaigning for the seat. Incumbent Ismael Herrera opted not to run for re-election and instead is running unopposed for the Kerman City Council. The trustee for Area 1 serves the Central, Firebaugh-Las...
More Homework? More Taxes? Highlights from Sunnyside Area Debate.
Mark Ratchford kept a serious face all night. He doesn’t like the direction of Fresno Unified and wasn’t shy talking about it. Ratchford, educator Karl Diaz, and incumbent Valerie Davis met Monday (Sept. 24) night at the CMAC studios downtown in a debate among candidates for the Fresno Unified trustee...