Ian Riccaboni (Salisbury Township School District, At-large, Pennsylvania, candidate 2025)
Ian Riccaboni (Democratic Party) is running or ran for election to Salisbury Township School District, At-large in Pennsylvania.[1]
Elections
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ian Riccaboni completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Riccaboni's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a 2005 Salisbury High School graduate who is proud of the school and the students it supports. I am seeking re-election to the Salisbury Township School District School Board to continue academic progress while promoting all avenues of career-readiness.
My wife Sarah and I moved back to Salisbury in 2017. It was the best decision we ever made. Our children attend Salisbury and we are their biggest fans. I’ve coached soccer in the community over the last four years and baseball and basketball for the last two. You’ll always find my kids and the kids I am privileged to coach trying to dunk me in the dunk tank at the Ice Cream Festival each year and I am always the first to sign up to be a mystery reader at the school.
I have a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Higher Education Management. While I am a firm believer in college education, I come from a union family of tradesmen and women and strongly support Salisbury’s parternship with LCTI.
My experience in pharma has given me experience managing large budgets and my recent MBA from Lehigh University has improved and cemented that knowledge. As of July 1, 2025, I will serve as Salisbury’s Treasurer.
As someone that has lived in both the East and West side of the district, I am uniquely attuned to the concerns of a complex, diverse, and thriving community. I am running to continue the excellent work previous boards have put forth and build a brighter future.
- I love and care about the community and will make decisions based on what supports our children. I am prepared to continue to make difficult decisions faced with limited financial resources and am willing to compromise. I believe in what our board has done, building a surplus that can support future capital projects that directly impact learning and quality of life as documented in our Master Facilities Plan and will continue our healthy relationship with parents, the administration, and community at large.
- I will continue to be an ear for your concerns, a sounding board, and will remain visible and available. My ears are open and I am ready to listen and meet the moment.
- While I encourage a rigorous academic baseline and standards, I will continue to support trade education for our students. I want our students to thrive, graduating Salisbury with either a plan for continuing education or prepared to embark on a career.
My dad. He is a hard worker, he is honest, he admits when he needs to learn more about something before making a decision. Most importantly, he is a man of his word.
I have empathy, I am honest, and I don’t stop working until the job is done.
I want to ensure that the upcoming Salisbury graduates are afforded more opportunities than I was, and I was afforded many!, when my time on the board resolves.
Honesty, integrity, and authenticity. The ability to say “I don’t know; may I learn more before we talk again?” And put in the work, mean what you say.
To know or learn enough about the specific circumstances your district is facing and propose actions that not only satisfy the immediate future but also consider the near- and long-term ramifications of your decision.
To be available to your constituents and engage in community events, such as the Art Show, the Ice Cream Festival, Mystery Reader Days, coaching sports teams and more.
To foster strong relationships that lead to clear dialogue with the Salisbury administration.
I am uncle to awesome kids that have autism. I am passionate about advocating for support for kids like them, including local, state, and federal funding and learning more about how we can build inclusive, compassionate environments for them.
I believe Salisbury should meet both its moral and legal obligation regarding financial transparency and government accountability. We are fortunate to have a Superintendent, CFO, Solicitor, and other admins that prioritize this.
Our CFO has partnered with the board to deliver timely reporting and five-year forecasting. The audits are now completed in a timely manner. Planning for capital projects is conducted publicly with an accessible Master Facilities Plan that the public had extensive input in.
Transparency and accountability does not stop at the existence of material. In its next stage, it continues to public partnership. I am proud that Salisbury has timely reporting and takes appropriate accountability.
I was a Morning Call paperboy for about three years delivering papers to the East side of Salisbury while I was in Middle School.
I would like to continue to expand upon the district’s upcoming AI guidance to make sure our kids know how to safely and appropriately use AI while being mindful of its environmental costs.
The residents of Salisbury Township but also those that have attended Salisbury Schools prior. When my time on the school board is done, I wish to leave Salisbury better than I found it.
I would continue and support the extensive work that is being put in in partnership with Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit, support our LCTI students who are pursuing trades, support our students pursuing college, and welcome our growing Spanish-speaking population by continuing the excellent work that our administration and board has put into motion by offering Spanish communications when available to engage the most of our community that we are able.
In a community the size of Salisbury, it is possible to not only meet but know most of your constituents. Both despite and because of commitments in the community, I am very visible and available. I want our kids to feel welcome and safe, in an environment where they feel they can learn. While I feel our schools do a great job currently, I am all ears and want to know how we can make our schools more welcoming for our kids.
Our five-year forecast is our most powerful tool and it shows that barring increased state or federal funding or a jump in business privilege tax, Salisbury will find itself with tough decisions to face by year four of that plan. But careful planning and discretion in the four-year term I am seeking can help limit the impact and actually keep us properly funded.
I do my best to get to know not only the players of the teams I coach but also their parents. I have time for all parents and encourage them to write to schedule time with me if there is ever a question about a vote I have made, an issue I support, a policy that was added to the handbook, or anything that may affect their student or the community.
Safe, welcoming, with clear expectations.
I believe we should continue to define what is appropriate use of AI for students and continue to increase our Spanish language resources.
Good teaching goes beyond repetition and memorization. It is engaging and memorable. It helps generate critical thought, even in the youngest grade levels. I admire and am appreciative of the teachers at Salisbury for what they do for our kids. We will continue to monitor with standardized tests but also with in person visits to newer offerings like Learning Lab.
I trust our administration and our talented teachers to bring back more advanced teaching approaches learned through conferences. I love hearing about them in our curriculum meetings.
It is important for our kids to be able to express who they are at school in an environment that allows them to make mistakes but to also face consequences when appropriate. Safety is not just being safe from external forces: I support continued emotional intelligence and behavioral augmentation for the students as well as continued celebration of what makes our increasingly-diverse student population and community special.
Continue our existing community partnerships to meet our community where they are at.
I feel like Salisbury made a number of tough decisions that were unpopular among some community members but ones that put Salisbury on stable financial footing and made the district more sustainable for the future.
Romeo’s Tune by Steve Forbert
The Beanie Baby Bubble - it is a fascinating look at a trend from my childhood that includes hubris, theft, gratitude, joy, and more. It is well-researched and is a page turner.
I am a workaholic.
Clark Griswold - a man that cares about both his immediate family that wants the best for them, for them to see and experience the world and contributes through his fulfilling career at the food additive company. Clark regularly lives full days: he laughs, he cries, and is he is authentic and human.
The 1992 Presidential Election! In an upset, the students of Salisbury Elementary School, then known as Harry S Truman, cast their mock vote for Ross Perot!
To be both the school’s biggest fan but also its most stringent and ardent critic that has the ability to both hyper-focus and see things from an unbiased and critical 10,000 foot view.
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[1] ↑ Submitted to Ballotpedia's candidate survey in 2025.
