Julie French (Indiana)
Julie French is an at-large member of the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board in Indiana. She assumed office on May 6, 2008. Her current term ends on December 31, 2028.
French ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board in Indiana. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
French completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Julie French was born in Sullivan, Indiana. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Purdue University in 1984 and in 1986, respectively. French's career experience includes working as an executive director with Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc. She has been affiliated with the Indiana School Boards Association, with the Indianapolis East Rotary, and with the Immanuel United Church of Christ.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, Indiana, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board At-large (4 seats)
Incumbent Gloria Williams, incumbent Lashauna Triplett, incumbent Julie French, and incumbent Howard Dorsey, Jr. defeated Candace Hopkins in the general election for Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board At-large on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Gloria Williams (Nonpartisan)  | 23.1 | 11,275 | |
| ✔ | Lashauna Triplett (Nonpartisan) | 20.3 | 9,900 | |
| ✔ |  | Julie French (Nonpartisan) | 19.9 | 9,685 |
| ✔ | Howard Dorsey, Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 18.6 | 9,091 | |
| Candace Hopkins (Nonpartisan) | 18.1 | 8,815 | ||
| Total votes: 48,766 | |||
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Endorsements
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2020
See also: Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, Indiana, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board At-large on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Gloria Williams (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 8,899 | |
| ✔ | Lashauna Triplett (Nonpartisan) | 11.9 | 7,981 | |
| ✔ | | Julie French (Nonpartisan) | 11.1 | 7,450 |
| ✔ | Howard Dorsey, Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 7,409 | |
| L. Renae Azziz (Nonpartisan) | 10.4 | 7,024 | ||
| Lynn Matchett (Nonpartisan) | 9.6 | 6,465 | ||
| Randy George (Nonpartisan) | 7.7 | 5,173 | ||
| Haley Hilliard (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 4,788 | ||
| Khrisma McMurray (Nonpartisan) | 6.9 | 4,610 | ||
| Maria Beattey (Nonpartisan) | 6.2 | 4,167 | ||
| Yancey Carpenter (Nonpartisan) | 4.9 | 3,298 | ||
| Total votes: 67,264 | |||
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2016
Four of the seven seats on the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township school board were up for at-large general election on November 8, 2016. Board incumbents Randy George and Julie French filed for re-election and faced eight challengers: Lynn Matchett, Nancy Smith, Michelle Shuffitt, James Abbett, Howard Dorsey, Jr., Veronica Tyler, Gloria Williams, and Charles Ingram. French and George won re-election and were joined in their victory by Williams and Matchett. There was no primary.[2][3][4]
Results
| Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2016 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Julie French Incumbent |
12.46% | 6,126 |
| Gloria Williams |
11.83% | 5,817 |
| Randy George Incumbent |
11.82% | 5,812 |
| Lynn Matchett |
10.12% | 4,977 |
| Veronica Tyler | 9.93% | 4,882 |
| Howard Dorsey, Jr. | 9.85% | 4,846 |
| James Abbett | 9.10% | 4,473 |
| Charles Ingram | 8.81% | 4,334 |
| Michelle Shuffitt | 8.12% | 3,991 |
| Nancy Smith | 7.97% | 3,919 |
| Total Votes (100) | 49,177 | |
| Source: Indianapolis, "2016 General Election Results for Marion County, Certified Results," accessed November 29, 2016 | ||
Funding
French did not file a campaign finance report with the Marion County Board of Elections as of October 25, 2016.[5]
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Julie French completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by French's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Public education is “the great equalizer”. Providing a quality public education, accessible to all children, can level the playing field regarding socioeconomic backgrounds. It can bridge gaps by providing everyone with the same opportunities to learn. Public education must be accessible to all and provide a high standard of education regardless of a child’s background. In order to provide for a well-educated citizenry we need to provide a common public education system that allows children to understand multifaceted issues and gain an understanding of the importance of civic participation.
- Funding is important. Public Funds should be for public schools. Currently, public schools take every child. Charters, though public and private schools do not. Public schools pick and choose their students and charter schools often use a lottery system to decide who gets to attend and who does not. It is not parent choice it is school choice, where the schools pick the students they want and the rest go to public schools. Neither charters nor private schools are as transparent as public schools are with financial reporting requirements. Currently, ninety percent of all Indiana children attend public schools. Public schools need a stable financial influx of money in order to improve programming for the vast majority of school-aged children.
- Public schools have been improving – not getting worse. Proponents of school choice like saying that, educationally, public schools are getting worse, and that is not true. As shared on the ICPE (Indiana Coalition for Public Schools) website, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has Indiana outperforming the national average on all 56 NAEP basic assessments since 1990. Steady improvement over the last 25 years has Indiana public schools standing at or near their highest marks on attendance rate, SAT math, ACT, National Assessment, ISTEP+, and the percentage earning Academic Honors diplomas and CORE 40 diplomas. Redirecting students to private schools weakens the support and obstructs further improvement in public schools.
I sing it to my grand daughter with different words that I sing to her.
Yummy yummy yummy I got food in my tummy
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2020
Julie French completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by French's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Recruit and retain great teachers
- Educational equity
- Safe and secure schools
Our schools provide meeting rooms for community use and we have an adult education program that parents and other community members have utilized to gain new knowledge and skills. We believe in communication. Our mantra lately has been 10 times / 10 ways in reaching out to students, staff, families and our community.
Of course, compensation is one way of retaining teachers. Because of that, we are working with legislators to secure legislation that will allow us to compensate our teachers better and allow for a reasonable living wage for the education our teachers and administrators have completed. Job satisfaction also plays a big role in retaining teachers. We are providing teachers with ways to network and collaborate with each other as well.
I can guarantee, when an active shooter incident is occurring at a school, every board member in the nation is finding out what school is involved and they are praying that it is not one of their schools. I have attended many safety seminars and workshops at state and national conventions and fortunately, the facts are that you are much more likely to have other safety and security concerns arise than an active shooter in your building. Train for them, yes, but you really need to consider other safety issues as well. The best thing we did to take control of our districts safety and security was to start our own police department. Before, we were at the mercy of other providers on who came to our school building to provide security at our schools. Many times our philosophy and the officer provided did not match up. We know that when working with children, this one word is important. Relationships. Let me say it again Relationships. First, as our own police force, we hired School Resource officers and School Safety officers with that in mind. We assign our officers to schools with the age group that theyc can relate to and they build relationships with the kids outside of a punitive setting so that later, should they need to de-escalate a situation, they already have a relationship with the student in which to build upon. Our police officers have programs such as "Reading With a Cop" and we have a young women's empowerment program that is ran by one of our female officers along with many other programs that build relationships. When you see kids walking up to police officers and high fiving them or fist bumping them, you know what you are doing is working.
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School board candidates in Indiana who received more than $500 in contributions or made more than $500 in expenditures had to have a principal committee. This committee was designated by a candidate to accept contributions and make expenditures to promote him or her for the election. Each committee was required to have a chairperson and a treasurer, and no contribution or expenditure could be accepted or made on behalf of the candidate's committee without the authorization of the chairperson or treasurer.
Once the $500 threshold was reached, the candidate had to also file a Statement of Organization form no later than at noon, 10 days after the candidate exceeded the limit. The requirement to form a principal committee and file a statement was lifted for candidates who did not meet the $500 threshold requirement. The pre-election report was due October 21, 2016, and the annual report was due January 18, 2017.[6]
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 9, 2020
- ↑ Indianapolis, "Candidate Filings," accessed August 30, 2016
- ↑ Warren Township, "School Board," accessed August 30, 2016
- ↑ Indianapolis, "2016 General Election Results for Marion County," accessed November 9, 2016
- ↑ Marion County Board of Elections, "Warren Twp School Board," accessed October 25, 2016
- ↑ Indiana Election Division, "2016 Indiana Campaign Finance Manual," accessed October 7, 2016
