Lisa Anderson-Levy

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Lisa Anderson-Levy

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Beloit School District Board of Education At-large

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Lisa Anderson-Levy was a representative on the Beloit Board of Education in Wisconsin. She did not seek re-election in 2018.

Biography

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Anderson-Levy is a professor at Beloit College. She is the parent of two children who attend school in the district.

Elections

2015

See also: Beloit School District elections (2015)

The general election on April 7, 2015, in Beloit School District featured two at-large seats up for election. Incumbent Missy Henderson ran against challengers Lisa Anderson-Levy, Dennis Baskin and Kenneth Streeter II. Anderson-Levy and Baskin triumphed over Henderson and Streeter in this election.

Results

Beloit School District, At-Large General Election, 3-year term, 2015
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Lisa Anderson-Levy	33.1%	1,802
	Nonpartisan	Dennis Baskin	27.5%	1,498
	Nonpartisan	Missy Henderson Incumbent	27.3%	1,489
	Nonpartisan	Kenneth Streeter II	12.2%	663
Total Votes				5,452
Source: Rock County Clerk, "2015 Spring NonPartisan Election," accessed May 27, 2015

Funding

Candidates were only required to file campaign finance reports if they did one of the following:

• accepted contributions, made disbursements or incurred obligations in an aggregate amount of more than $1,000 in a calendar year
• accepted more than $100 from a single source in the calendar year, except contributions made by candidates to their own campaigns

Endorsements

Anderson-Levy was endorsed by the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE).

Campaign themes

2015

Anderson-Levy participated in the following Q&A about her campaign with the Beloit College Round Table:

“	Q: Would you mind explaining the school board position you’re running for and what exactly that entails? A: There are not specific duties attached to any one position. They rotate. There are two vacancies right now and four candidates running. One position has an incumbent in it and the other position is open. As a member of the board I would be thinking about and making long term strategic plans for the district and setting the tone for how administrators behave, although “behave” isn’t quite the right word. But [I would be] setting the tone for the district, and making decisions about budget, decisions about the operation of the district. And [that also includes] what I started with earlier — a vision, a long-term vision. This may happen before I even get there — but the board is also now beginning the process of hiring a new superintendent. The superintendent retired, so that’s part of it, too. Q: Would you briefly explain your platform? A: I don’t really have one position. I am interested in running primarily because it seemed to me that the board right now has trust issues in various parts of the community. So lots of different constituencies don’t trust the board to act in their best interest. I think I have some ideas and a particular skillset that might help with that, but I don’t have one axe that I’m grinding. Q: What would you say your major goals would be after you get elected? A: I have a broad set of issues that I’m interested in, and most of them revolve around increasing access. So, access to the board, transparency of board procedures and policies. I think the board can do a better job about outreach to various parts of this community. And all of these have to do with the thing about building trust that I started with. So one example of access is how when you go to school board meetings on a regular day or evening when there are no hot-button issues, there are very few people there. One issue is, of course, that people are busy, but another is that the notices for when school board meetings happen are all online, and I think that seems like a problem for a community with this much poverty. So maybe there are other ways to advertise it, for example. And in my conversations with various parts of the Latino community here, language is also a problem. So people are willing to come but they are frustrated when they don’t fully understand and when they know that their ideas won’t be fully understood. And finally, aside from “the” language barrier, I think there are language barriers in terms of using language that people can understand…all boards or groups have a language that they use, that other groups who are less familiar with don’t understand, whether it’s acronyms or particular kinds of jargon or whatever. I think we have a responsibility to explain things when people come. I think the board needs to engage in intercultural literacy or competency training, because the board does not reflect the community demographically. Especially around the issue of poverty, I think it’s important that the board understand what poverty does to families and to children. So what does it look like in the classroom when a kid comes in who’s homeless or who doesn’t have enough to eat? I think that I would like to see the board become more aware or more educated about what those things look like, because I think that would, or may, change their approach or their decisions. Q: Is there anything you’d suggest for students who’d like to get involved? A: Vote, vote, vote! On April 7th. I have a couple students on my campaign committee actually, and they’ve been wonderful. I don’t have campaign resources for hundreds of yard signs that people can walk around the town with or any of that. So the big thing that students can do is get up on Tuesday the 7th and vote. And register beforehand. The rules are changing about when you register and when you can vote. Q: Is there anything else you’d like people to know? A: Oftentimes, school board and who sits on the board is not something that people pay attention to, which is interesting because everybody cares about school in one way or another. And especially in a town like this, where the district is the biggest employer in the town, and has the capacity to be a big influence. It has the capacity to be a reason why people move here, and it has been, in the past, a reason why people leave. I feel as though people need to care more across the board. Folks are busy, but I think it’s important that people pay attention and keep school board members accountable.	”
—Beloit College Round Table's website (2015)

See also

• Beloit School District, Wisconsin
• Beloit School District elections (2015)
• Hot tub Gatorade, turnout in Peoria and the Wisconsin state...
• Wisconsin school districts 2014 review

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