Harold Cardwell
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Harold Cardwell is a District A representative on the Alexandria City School Board in Virginia. The general election was held on November 3, 2015.[1] Harold Cardwell won the general election on November 3, 2015.
Biography
Cardwell received his B.S. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia in 1986. He later earned a Ph.D. in water resources engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1992. Cardwell is a water resources engineer. He and his wife have three kids.[2]
Elections
2015
Opposition
The Alexandria City School Board is a nine-member board elected by district to three-year terms. There are three districts on the board with three board members per district.[3] The general election was held on November 3, 2015.[4] The seats of all nine incumbents were up for election.[5]
Incumbents William Campbell and Karen Graf and challenger Harold Cardwell ran unopposed and won the three District A seats. District B incumbent Kelly Booz lost her seat after facing challengers Cindy Anderson, Mimi Goff, Margaret Lorber and Veronica Nolan. Anderson, Lorber and Nolan won the three District B seats. The District C race for three seats featured incumbents Ronnie Campbell, Patricia Hennig and Christopher Lewis and challengers Darla Dillard and Ramee Gentry. While Campbell and Lewis won re-election, Henning lost her seat to Gentry.
Results
| Alexandria City School Board, District A, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Karen Graf Incumbent |
36.2% | 7,131 |
| William Campbell Incumbent |
32.4% | 6,371 |
| Harold Cardwell |
29.3% | 5,770 |
| Write-in votes | 2.12% | 418 |
| Total Votes | 19,690 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2015 November General", accessed November 3, 2015 | ||
Funding
Cardwell reported $50.00 in contributions but no expenditures to the Virginia State Board of Elections, which left his campaign with $50.00 on hand as of October 28, 2015.[6]
Endorsements
Cardwell earned the endorsement of the Alexandria Political Action Committee for Education.[7]
Campaign themes
2015
Cardwell answered the following questions from The Connection about issues in the district:
| “ |
What is one issue that defines your call to serve, why does it matter, and how will you tackle it? I’m vested in ACPS. I grew up in Alexandria and went thru ACPS (TCW ’82). After living in other states and countries I returned here in my 30’s, and have spent the last 11 years as a ACPS parent with kids currently in elementary, middle and high school. I want to contribute to making sure that my kids and the rest of ACPS’s students get top-notch education opportunities like I did a few decades ago. In terms of priorities, redistricting and facilities issues are probably at the top of current concerns with the system’s schools bursting at the seams. How will we meet these challenges while remaining committed to meeting the various educational needs of an extremely diverse student population? My long history in Alexandria and within ACPS should help, as will my background in both collaborative processes and systems engineering, and as will my Spanish language skills. What distinguishes you from your opponent(s) and why should voters choose you? Three of us are running for three slots from District A. I look forward to working with Bill Campbell, Karen Graf, and the other members of the next board. How can Alexandria address overcrowding within the current budgetary confines? What ideas and skills do you bring to solving this? ACPS is already being creative at meeting the needs of its growing student population, but we need more space. The next school board will need to work with the council and with the community to develop funding and facility solutions — from building new schools to expanding existing facilities. My long history in Alexandria and within ACPS should help address these challenges, as will my background in both collaborative processes and systems engineering. While the majority of Alexandria schools remain accredited, what can be done about continuing problems facing Jefferson-Houston? For incumbents, what lessons have been learned from the problem? For non-incumbent candidates, what would you have done differently? There are no easy solutions. We need to understand the needs of individual students, and work with the teachers and staff to develop interventions that work. We need to collect data on what’s working in our schools and what isn’t, and learn from best practices around the city and around the world. We need to make sure that our teachers have the resources and training to implement new strategies and follow-through rather than moving on to the next shiny idea-of-the-month. [8] |
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| —Harold Cardwell (2015), [2] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia
- Alexandria City Public Schools elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "List of Candidates," September 9, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Connection, "School Board–Alexandria District A: Hal Cardwell," October 26, 2015
- ↑ Alexandria City Public Schools, "School Board," accessed September 17, 2015
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2015 November Election Calendar," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Alexandria City Public Schools, "School Board Members," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Virginia State Board of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ AlexandriaNews.org, "Alexandria Educators Endorse Candidates," July 13, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
