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Erin Grampp
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Erin Grampp is the Berkeley District representative on the Spotsylvania County Public Schools school board in Virginia. First elected in 2013, Grampp won a new term in the by-district general election on November 7, 2017.
Biography
A lifelong resident of Spotsylvania County, Grampp graduated from Courtland High School and from Mary Washington College with a bachelor's degree in economics. She started a riding school to teach horsemanship.[1]
Elections
2017
Three of the seven seats on the Spotsylvania County Public Schools school board in Virginia were up for by-district general election on November 7, 2017. In his bid for re-election to the Battlefield District seat, incumbent Baron Braswell ran unopposed and won another term. Incumbent Erin Grampp defeated challenger April Gillespie for the Berkeley District seat. In the race for the Lee Hill District seat, Lisa Phelps defeated Kathryn “Kassie” Palmer, who was appointed to the formerly vacant seat on July 10, 2017.[2][3]
Results
| Spotsylvania County Public Schools, Berkeley District General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Erin Grampp Incumbent |
52.19% | 2,468 |
| April Gillespie | 47.22% | 2,233 |
| Write-in votes | 0.59% | 28 |
| Total Votes | 4,729 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 November General," accessed November 21, 2017 | ||
Funding
Grampp reported no contributions or expenditures to the Virginia Department of Elections in the election.[4]
Endorsements
Grampp was endorsed by the Spotsylvania Education Association.[5]
2013
Grampp won election against fellow challenger Mark Marshall and incumbent J. Gilbert Seaux in the general election on November 5, 2013.
Results
| Spotsylvania County Public Schools, Berkeley District General Election, 4-year term, 2013 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Erin Grampp |
47.9% | 2,002 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mark Marshall | 36.5% | 1,527 | |
| Nonpartisan | J. Gilbert Seaux Incumbent | 15% | 627 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in Votes | 0.6% | 25 | |
| Total Votes | 4,181 | |||
| Source: Spotsylvania County, Virginia, "November 2013 General Election Official Results," accessed December 12, 2013 | ||||
Endorsements
Grampp was endorsed by the Spotsylvania County Republican Party.[1]
Funding
Grampp reported $14,875 in contributions and $14,850, which left her campaign with $25 on hand prior to the election, according to the The Free Lance-Star.[6]
Campaign themes
2017
Grampp highlighted the following issues on her campaign website:
| “ | Chairman Erin Grampp’s Statement on Trump Executive Order Limiting Federal Education Funding
President Trump recently passed an executive order in favor of limiting federal investment in education and transferring more control and responsibility to the States. Regarding this bold move, Spotsylvania County School Board Chairman Erin Grampp says, “We are closely monitoring the status of federal decisions so that we can be proactive if cuts happen and ensure Spotsylvania is at the front of the line for funding. We won’t wait to be told what we get after other localities; we’re driving the conversation with state legislators to maximize our share of the pie to meet the needs of Spotsylvania County’s students.” Grampp maintains her strong relationships with state legislators and has been an integral player in the development of several laws and policy changes that have had a lasting positive impact on our school system, as well as other localities. Most recently, Grampp has led the charge in creating extra activity bus programs, and her latest projects have been the development of the School Board Advisory Committee and the Evergreen Study implementation. The Positive and Truthful Approach to Education Erin values a high quality education and leads by a principled, conservative, ethical, fair, and honest example. She supports a school system that offers a variety of paths for students in job training, higher education, sports, arts, and preparation to have the right tools to succeed in life. While serving on multiple finance committees, she works tirelessly to manage the growing cost mandates, retain competitive staff salaries, and be a good steward of our tax dollars. Erin fights for you to maximize the investment that taxpayers make in our county schools with every vote. However, there are a few in the community who regularly and vocally create roadblocks to our efforts by spreading false narratives and untrue facts in order to get support for their hidden agendas. Erin encourages you as a voter, parent, taxpayer, and citizen to become educated on the true facts before reaching any conclusions. Erin is more than happy to meet with you and discuss your concern. She is a problem-solver and has the right experience and temperament to identify the fake news and give you the truth. Some claims that you may see circulating—and the truth behind the myths 'Spotsylvania County Schools are outspending the growth!!!!' Actually, SCPS is the 10th richest county in Virginia, and rank 80th in per pupil spending in the state. 'The County spends a larger portion of the budget on the schools!!' Since 2014, the schools have received less than 50% of the county general fund. IN FY18, SCPS will receive 48.41%. In fact, the schools will receive only 28.9% of the General Fund increase over 2017. 'The schools’ budget has increased largely!!' Since 2014, SCPS budget has one of the lowest percent increases of all the departments in the county budget. With an increase of $8,911,754 or 7.2%, SCPS has met the double digit increases in health insurance and VRS mandated payments. 'Residents do not support investing in education!!!' As proven by the vote on the 2014 bond for education which received the highest passing rate of any of the five bond questions, Spotsylvania County residents do support investment in education. Businesses seeking to invest millions here and create high paying jobs—widely sought by residents—require an educated workforce and proven quality schools when they choose a county with which to partner. 'Employees are not a priority for SCPS!!' Since 2014, SCPS employees have received a Step plus 8% salary increase. The employees continue to be the top priority during budget season. The Operating budget is 88% salary and benefits proving the schools are a service industry and investing in quality employees results in a quality product. Spotsylvania County is home to 71% of the SCPS workforce. 'SCPS is not transparent!!!' While still not mandated after the bill failed again, SCPS remains the only area school system to post bill lists weekly to the website for the public to view, and has since 2008. 'SCPS does not offer choices to students!!!' SCPS offers a variety of programs to help serve all of the students. Some of these programs are the International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, Commonwealth Governor School, Career and Tech Ed, Alternative ED, Anger management Counseling, Substance abuse instruction, Smoking cessation course, Rappahannock Juvenile detention center, Dual enrollment, Gladys Todd academy, adult ed, virtual learning, home school access to credits, PBIS, Alternative behavior ed, Read and math 180, JROTC, and middle and high school VHSL athletics. Special ed programs offered include Special ed, Title VI-B, Deaf and blindness, Intellectual disability for mild, moderate, and severe, hearing impaired, speech and language impairments, visual impairments, emotional disturbance, orthopedic impaired, autistic, learning disabled, developmental delay, community based training, parent resource center, and early childhood development center. 'The School Board has made no effort to lower costs!!!' As previously stated, since 2014, the total budget has only increased by 7%. The mandated expenses have increased at a far higher rate. In order to keep spending low the school board has used many tools to reduce the budget. They include restructuring central office, retirement programs, non-compensation reductions, eliminated or modified programs, hiring a grant writer, joint procurements with the county, and self funded health insurance. Additional funds are sought from local business partnerships, donations, and tireless PTA and booster volunteers. 'The schools do not work with the county!!' SCPS has many joint procurements and shared services with Spotsylvania County. They include Anthem Insurance, Evergreen solutions, Revere Gas, Anderson Oil, James River petroleum, Eagle towing, Cherry Beckaert, Bolton Partners, Joint Fleet service, recycling, risk management with Sheriff, and Grounds maintenance.[7] |
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2013
Grampp highlighted the following issues on her campaign website:
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See also
- Spotsylvania County Public Schools, Virginia
- Spotsylvania County Public Schools elections (2017)
- Spotsylvania County Public Schools elections (2013)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Erin Grampp for School Board, "About Me," accessed October 15, 2013
- ↑ News Talk 1230, "Spotsy School Board Selects Palmer," accessed July 11, 2017
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Christina Johnson, Spotsylvania County Chief Deputy Registrar," June 14, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports: Search Committees," accessed January 17, 2018
- ↑ Spotsylvania Education Association, "Reminder," October 16, 2017
- ↑ The Free Lance-Star, "CAMPAIGN 2013: Here’s how contributions shake out in Spotsylvania races," October 31, 2013
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Re-elect Erin Grampp, "Issues," accessed October 19, 2017
- ↑ Erin Grampp for School Board, "Issues," accessed October 15, 2013
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