On Saturday, March 12 the League of Women Voters – Whitewater Area sponsored a forum for the candidates who are running for the Whitewater Unified School District School Board in the April 5 election. Four candidates are running for two open seats. All of the candidates participated: Miguel Aranda, Jennifer Kienbaum (incumbent), Joseph Kromholz (incumbent), and Andrea Svec. Approximately twenty people were in the audience. The forum was moderated by Whitewater High School student Alex Martin under the supervision of the League and WHS American Government teacher Greg Stewart.

[From the League of Women Voters’ website] Candidates were asked questions about how to address the needs of English language learners, whether or not the school board should hold listening sessions with the students, if they would support any policy blocking what could be taught in the classroom, how a school board knows if they are achieving their goals, how to address the waiting list for free counseling at the high school, whether or not they would vote to require masks be worn at school, and much more!

The forum was filmed by Whitewater Community TV. You can watch a recording of the forum on Vimeo. The recording will be rebroadcast on Channel 990 during the weeks leading up to the April 5 Spring Election.