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Charles Love
Charles Love was a candidate for at-large representative on the Newark Public Schools Board of Education in New Jersey. Love was defeated in the at-large general election on April 25, 2017.
Love was a candidate for the board in 2015. He was defeated in the general election on April 21, 2015.
Biography
Love submitted the following biography to Ballotpedia:
| “ | Charles Love leads family engagement efforts throughout the City of Newark, Essex and Union Counties. A fourth generation Newarker and graduate of Central High School, he has served as a community organizer for a variety of Newark-based organizations, such as; the International Youth Organization (IYO), Babyland Family Services, FP Youth Outcry and Habitat for Humanity. He served for more than 15 years at NPS as a special needs paraprofessional for "the most at-risk students." Mr. Love has also served as a leader within the District’s Family Engagement Office at Newark Leadership Academy.
Mr. Love is a founding partner of Middle Generation Systems, an education and policy studies organization. Charles Love is an at-large candidate for the Newark Public Schools' Advisory Board (Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 8A). He is a graduate of Lincoln University, has studied Family Research at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and Nonprofit Leadership Development at Rutgers Business School. He is currently working on his PhD in Organizational Behavior at Fielding Graduate University. Charles and his wife Christine have (three) children within the District, Khair 17, Caidance 13 and Christian 8.[1] |
” |
| —Charles Love (2017)[2] | ||
Elections
2017
- See also: Newark Public Schools elections (2017)
The Newark Unity slate of candidates—Reginald Bledsoe, Josephine Garcia, and Flohisha Johnson—was victorious in the general election on April 25, 2017. This was the last election the Newark Public Schools Board of Education held before the board regains local control of the district. The board has held advisory status since it was taken over by the state of New Jersey in 1995. A total of 16 candidates filed to run for three seats up for at-large election, including one incumbent. Three of these candidates made up the Newark Unity slate, which was endorsed by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Three other candidates formed the Community Team slate. Following the 2016 election, all nine members of the board were Baraka-endorsed candidates and had been members of either the Children First Team or the Newark Unity slate.
Besides board incumbent Philip Seelinger, the candidates who filed to run in this election were Swapan Basu, Reginald Bledsoe, Patricia Bradford, Denise Cole, Anthony Diaz, Josephine Garcia, EZDehar Hatab, Jameel Ibrahim, Flohisha Johnson, Charles Love, Sheila Montague, Ryan Talmadge, Deborah Terrell, and Jimmie White. Bledsoe, Garcia, and Johnson ran as a part of the Newark Unity slate. Cole, Seelinger, and Talmadge made up another slate called the Community Team. Sixteenth candidate Sharon Smith filed for election but later decided she did not want to run in the race. Her name still appeared on the ballot. Diaz's name did not appear on the ballot.[3][4][5]
Results
| Newark Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Josephine Garcia |
17.93% | 3,595 |
| Reginald Bledsoe |
17.01% | 3,411 |
| Flohisha Johnson |
13.66% | 2,740 |
| Charles Love | 7.82% | 1,568 |
| Deborah Terrell | 7.45% | 1,494 |
| Patricia Bradford | 7.30% | 1,465 |
| Philip Seelinger Incumbent | 5.88% | 1,180 |
| Denise Cole | 5.25% | 1,053 |
| Sheila Montague | 3.79% | 761 |
| Swapan Basu | 3.65% | 732 |
| Jimmie White | 2.99% | 599 |
| Ryan Talmadge | 2.37% | 475 |
| Sharon Smith | 2.28% | 458 |
| EZDehar Hatab | 1.55% | 311 |
| Jameel Ibrahim | 0.91% | 182 |
| Anthony Diaz | 0.00% | |
| Write-in votes | 0.15% | 31 |
| Total Votes | 20,055 | |
| Source: Essex County Clerk, "2017 School Board Election," accessed May 26, 2017 | ||
Funding
School board candidates in New Jersey had to file reports of their campaign financial activity with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. Each candidate is required to appoint a treasurer (a candidate may serve as his or her own treasurer) and create a campaign depository (a bank account) and file this information with the commission. Candidates must establish a reporting committee, which has the sole name under which a candidate receives contributions, makes expenditures, labels his or her political identification statements, or otherwise does business. No later than 10 days after establishing a candidate committee, the candidate must file the Single Candidate Committee Certificate of Organization and Designation of Campaign Treasurer and Depository form.[6][7]
A candidate must begin filing reports with the commission on a date that depends upon when the committee's financial activity begins. If a candidate committee is set up within five months or less of the due date of the 29-day pre-election report, the committee must file a 29-day pre-election report as the initial election fund report. If the committee is established more than five months prior to the due date of the 29-day pre-election report, the committee must file a quarterly report as its initial election fund report. Beginning the 13th day before the election day and ending on election day, if a candidate receives more than $1,600 from a single source, the committee must file a report within 48 hours.[8]
There were five campaign finance reporting deadlines in 2017 for this school board election. Each deadline required the candidate to file a cumulative campaign report.
- March 20, 2017 (29th day pre-election report)
- April 5, 2017 (48-hour reporting began)
- April 7, 2017 (11th day pre-election report)
- April 18, 2017 (48-hour reporting ended)
- May 8, 2017 (20th day post-election report)[9]
Love had not reported any campaign contributions or expenditures to the commission as of April 12, 2017.
Endorsements
Love received official endorsements from Newark Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins, former Newark board president Leonard Anton Wheeler, New Jersey State Democratic Committee Chair Chris James, and South Ward Senior District Leader Hope Jackson.[10]
2015
- See also: Newark Public Schools elections (2015)
Three of the nine seats on the Newark Advisory Board were up for election on April 21, 2015. Only one incumbent, Marques-Aquil Lewis, filed to run for re-election. He faced the following seven challengers on the general election ballot: Natasha Alvarado, Veronica Branch, Dashay Carter, Crystal Fonseca, Ronnie Kellam, Charles Love III, and Sheila Montague. Lewis, Carter, and Fonseca were chosen for Mayor Ras J. Barak's "Children First Team" slate.[11]
Michael Diaz and Ivan Holmes also filed to run in this election but did not appear on the ballot. Holmes withdrew from the race and Diaz was disqualified.[12]
The Baraka-backed candidates Lewis, Carter, and Fonseca, won the three seat up for election.
Results
| Newark Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Crystal Fonseca |
21.9% | 3,745 | |
| Nonpartisan | Marques-Aquil Lewis Incumbent |
21.8% | 3,729 | |
| Nonpartisan | Dashay Carter |
19.4% | 3,311 | |
| Nonpartisan | Charles Love III | 11.4% | 1,955 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sheila Montague | 10.1% | 1,729 | |
| Nonpartisan | Veronica Branch | 9.6% | 1,637 | |
| Nonpartisan | Natasha Alvarado | 3.4% | 584 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ronnie Kellam | 2% | 347 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.4% | 63 | |
| Total Votes | 17,100 | |||
| Source: Essex County Clerk, "2015 School Board Election," April 27, 2015 | ||||
Funding
Love reported no contributions or expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission as of March 21, 2015.[13]
Endorsements
Love was endorsed by the Newark Parents Union, along with Veronica Branch and Sheila Montague.[14]
Campaign themes
2015
Love provided the following statement on his Facebook campaign page:
| “ | We know that the PARCC, One Newark, Common Core, School Safety, Parental Engagement, Professional Development, Co-location, Charter Expansion, Educational Equity and Local Control are all major concerns for EVERY parent in this City. We need qualified leadership to work with parents and educators to develop real solutions for EVERY child in EVERY school, EVERY day! I am committed to doing just that.[1] | ” |
| —Charles Love's Facebook campaign page (2015)[15] | ||
See also
- Newark Public Schools, New Jersey
- Newark Public Schools elections (2017)
- Newark Public Schools elections (2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email exchange with Charles Love," March 26, 2017
- ↑ NJ, "With local control on the horizon, 16 file to run for Newark school board," March 8, 2017
- ↑ Newark Unity Slate, "Endorsements," accessed March 22, 2017
- ↑ NJ, "On verge of local control, meet Newark's 15 school board candidates," April 3, 2017
- ↑ New Jersey Permanent Statutes, "Title 19:44A-11," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Permanent Statutes, "Title 19:44A-10," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "Compliance Manual for Candidates," accessed January 9, 2014
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "2017 Reporting Dates," accessed May 24, 2017
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email exchange with Charles Love," March 26, 2017
- ↑ NJ.com, "Ten candidates sign up for Newark school board race," March 4, 2015
- ↑ Margaret Koenig, "Email correspondence with Martha A. Jones, Newark Public Schools," April 14, 2015
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "View a Candidate or Election Related Committee Report," accessed April 2, 2015
- ↑ Facebook, "The Newark Parents Union: Mobile Upload," April 16, 2015
- ↑ Facebook, "Charles Love III for Newark Public Schools Advisory Board: Wall Post," March 30, 2015
| Newark Public Schools elections in 2017 | |
| Essex County, New Jersey | |
| Election date: | April 25, 2017 |
| Candidates: | At-Large: Incumbent, Philip Seelinger • Swapan Basu • Reginald Bledsoe • Patricia Bradford • Denise Cole • Anthony Diaz • Josephine Garcia • EZDehar Hatab • Jameel Ibrahim • Flohisha Johnson • Charles Love • Sheila Montague • Sharon Smith • Ryan Talmadge • Deborah Terrell • Jimmie White |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
