Somerville Candidates' Forums week of Sept. 1st
- kennedyschoolpta
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THREE IMPORTANT CANDIDATES' FORUMS WILL BE HELD IN THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1ST.
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***SOMERVILLE MAYORAL CANDIDATE FORUM,
sponsored by Somerville Educators' Union, Somerville Stands Together, and others***
Tuesday, September 2, 6:30pm-8:30pm
ONLINE ONLY via Zoom -- you must pre-register here for link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CYRGkwZbRBSYVD1s9fSEPg#/registration
10 co-sponsors including SEU, Padres Latinos, Mothers Out Front, the Somerville Community Growing Center, Somerville Stands Together and others inviting the public to their Mayoral Candidate Forum. Expect a variety of questions, including many focused on education and families.
***WARD 3 SCHOOL COMMITTEE CANDIDATES FORUM HOSTED BY WARD 3 DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE***
Thursday, September 4, 7:00pm
LOCATION: Lower Cafeteria at Somerville High School. Use the main entrance.
Featuring the three candidates for the ward’s representative on the Somerville School Committee. All members of the community are invited.
• The forum offers an opportunity to hear from the candidates about K-12 education, early childhood programs, special education, and the future of Somerville schools in our rapidly changing community.
• The public is invited to submit questions or topic ideas to Ward3dems.somerville@gmail.com
• While they cannot guarantee that all submitted questions will be posed at the forum, we hope to include as many as possible. The forum moderators will also offer questions.
Organized by
the Somerville Public Library Foundation, the Friends of the Somerville Public Library and the Somerville Council of PTAs***
Friday, September 5, 2025, Doors Open 6:30pm Forum from 7:00-8:00pm
Location: East Somerville Community School Auditorium, 50 Cross St, Somerville
(There will not be a virtual option, but the event will be recorded and the video will be posted on the event web page here: https://sites.google.com/view/town-hall-libraries-schools/home
Live interpretation in Haitian Creole, Spanish, and Portuguese will be available
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT LIBRARIES & SCHOOLS FOR THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES? Click here to submit questions & RSVP: bit.ly/46QkIvr
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT QUESTIONS IS AUGUST 28TH
RSVP not required for attendance - it helps us to plan for free pizza!
Join us for a discussion with the mayoral candidates about education issues, with all questions sourced from YOU, the community ahead of time.
A note from PTA Co-President Becky Lopes-Filho:
It's election season and that means lots of important opportunities are coming up to hear from the candidates in their own words. In the second week of school alone, there will be three different candidates' forums focused on schools.
Our City's relationship to, and support of, its Schools Department is in sharp focus and it's time for all of us, as advocates, to tune in where we can.
With a major school buildings planning process underway, a looming tax override to pay for the replacement of the Winter Hill Community Innovation School and the possibility of combining the future Benjamin Brown School and Winter Hill School communities into one building, the dire state of the federal education budget and dismantling of the Department of Education, contracting state revenues and competing budgetary pressures at the state and local levels, and threats to the safety and liberty of our immigrant students and their families, it's hard to imagine a more fraught moment to run for political office.
The heart of our Somerville community is our children.
We are an urban school district full of absolutely amazing kids from all possible backgrounds and an enormous spectrum of needs who, more than anything, need safe and equitable access to the best whole-child education we can possibly provide them.
Our voices and our visibility as concerned residents are key at this time.
Please tune in, show up, make your voices heard, and if you have the ability, vote in the preliminary election on September 16th and in the municipal election on November 4th.
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