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Carolyn Edwards
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Prior offices
Clark County School District Board of Trustees District F

Education

Bachelor's

Earlham College

Graduate

Rutgers University

Contact

Personal website

Carolyn Edwards represented District F on the Clark County Board of Trustees in Nevada from 2006 to 2019. Edwards did not seek re-election in 2018.

Biography

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Edwards obtained a B.A. from Earlham College and an M.S.W. from Rutgers University. She worked as a family therapist in Virginia for a decade prior to moving to Las Vegas in 1992. Edwards has been involved with district schools as a volunteer and a former president of the Gray Elementary School PTA. She and her husband, Charles, have two children who graduated from district schools.[1]

Elections

2014

See also: Clark County School District elections (2014)

Three seats on the Clark County Board of Trustees were up for election in 2014. The June 10 primary featured Charles Ware running against Stavan Corbett, Kevin Child and Wesley Cornwell. Corbett and Child advanced to the general election on November 4, 2014. The District F primary included incumbent Carolyn Edwards and challengers Ileetha J. Groom and Ralph Krauss Edwards and Krauss advanced to the general election. Incumbent Erin E. Cranor faced Ira Kimball and Joe Spencer in the District G primary. Cranor and Spencer advanced to the November 4 ballot.

Results

General election
Clark County School District, District F General Election, 4-year term, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngCarolyn Edwards Incumbent 63.4% 24,827
     Nonpartisan Ralph Krauss 36.6% 14,356
Total Votes 39,183
Source: Nevada Secretary of State, "Silver State 2014 Election Night Results," accessed December 29, 2014
Primary election
Clark County School District, District F Primary Election, 4-year term, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngCarolyn Edwards Incumbent 55.2% 7,729
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngRalph Krauss 31.9% 4,467
     Nonpartisan Ileetha J. Groom 12.9% 1,801
Total Votes 13,997
Source: Nevada Secretary of State, "County Results Clark," accessed October 13, 2014

Funding

Edwards has reported $22,578.57 in contributions and $6,203.48 in expenditures to the Nevada Secretary of State, leaving her campaign with $16,375.09 on hand as of June 5, 2014.[2]

Endorsements

Edwards was endorsed by the following:

  • Clark County Education Association
  • Education Support Employees Association
  • Clark County Black Caucus
  • Clark County Firefighters
  • Asian Chamber of Commerce
  • Latin Chamber of Commerce
  • AFL-CIO
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  • Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters
  • Service Employee International Union
  • Plumbers and Pipefitters
  • Laborers Union
  • Sheet Metal Workers

2010

Clark County School District, District F General Election, 4-year term, November 2, 2010
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Nonpartisan Green check mark transparent.pngCarolyn Edwards Incumbent 59.3% 41,854
     Nonpartisan Ken Small 40.7% 28,722
Total Votes 70,576
Source: Clark County Registrar of Voters, "Historical Election Results and Related Data," accessed March 17, 2014

Campaign themes

2014

Edwards provided the following statements on her campaign website:

“ What we need to do

Improve Student Achievement

  • Over the last four years we have implemented a significant reform movement, and it is essential that we continue along this path. The reforms have moved us away from the failed federally mandated No Child Left Behind program to a system where every school is expected to make progress in student achievement every year. This relentless focus on improving school performance was started under Superintendent Dwight Jones, it is continuing under Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky, and it is getting results.

Increase the graduation rate

  • The graduation rate has improved over the last four years, and we are also doing a better job of measuring the true graduation rate. Four years ago CCSD reported a graduation rate of 58%. It is now 72% as a result of both better tracking of students and actual improvements in the graduation rate. This is better than it was, but it is still not good enough.

Address School Overcrowding

  • Many of our elementary schools are well above their capacity. Enrollment in CCSD is the highest ever at 315,000 students, and next year is projected to be even higher at 319,000 students. We will not be able to build new schools unless the voters approve a bond fund, and even if that happens in 2016 we will not have schools on line until close to 2020. This leaves us a limited number of options including selectively implementing 12 month schedules, using portables, moving some 5th grade classes into middle schools which have available capacity, and moving some classrooms into available commercial real estate. None of these are ideal, but it is likely that all of them will be necessary.

Stabilize Education Funding

  • CCSD has cut over 500 million dollars in annual costs since I joined the board in 2006. During this time student enrollment has increased, so the district is clearly doing more with less. Many administrative positions have been eliminated, but we have also curtailed some valuable programs and have increased class sizes. The Trustees have no direct control over the size of the CCSD budget, that is controlled by the legislature. As a trustee I will continue to work with the legislature to both ensure adequate funding and ensure consistent funding. Wild swings in funding levels are inefficient and wasteful

Minimize Bullying

  • Bullying has been with us since the dawn of recorded history, but that doesn't mean that we should accept it as a fact of life. CCSD has clear anti-bullying policies and programs, but too often we learn that they have not been effective. I will continue to push to strengthen our anti-bullying programs, improve the training of our personnel on appropriate handling of bullying situations, and provide support to the victims of bullying.

Improve Transparency

  • In my first term I successfully pushed for live webcasts of board meetings. I also restructured the public input sessions to ensure that the public had a voice on specific issues, not just on general policies. I insisted that CCSD put detailed budget documents on their web site, and recently we have upgraded the web site with the Open Book system which gives detailed budget and cost information for CCSD.[3]
 ”
—Carolyn Edward's campaign website (2014)[4]

What was at stake?

Recent news

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See also

External links

Additional reading

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Clark County School District, "Trustee Board Member: Carolyn Edwards," accessed April 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "Nevada Contributions & Expenditures," accessed May 21, 2014
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Carolyn Edwards for School Board Trustee, "Our Challenges," accessed October 13, 2014
2014 Clark County School District Elections
Las Vegas, Nevada
Election date:November 4, 2014
Candidates:District D: • Kevin Child • Stavan Corbett

District F: • Carolyn Edwards • Ralph Krauss
District G: • Erin E. Cranor • Joe Spencer

Candidates defeated in primary: • Wesley Cornwell • Charles Ware • Ileetha J. Groom • Ira Kimball •
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