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Matt Gresick
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Matt Gresick ran for election to the Baltimore County Public Schools to represent District 1 in Maryland. Gresick lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Baltimore County Public Schools, District 1
Lisa Mack defeated Matt Gresick in the general election for Baltimore County Public Schools, District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lisa Mack (Nonpartisan) | 59.6 | 20,074 | |
 | Matt Gresick (Nonpartisan) | 39.8 | 13,397 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 183 | ||
| Total votes: 33,654 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Baltimore County Public Schools, District 1
Matt Gresick and Lisa Mack defeated Deborah Arnetta Cason, Pete Fitzpatrick, and Richard Young in the primary for Baltimore County Public Schools, District 1 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Gresick (Nonpartisan) | 28.0 | 3,917 |
| ✔ | Lisa Mack (Nonpartisan) | 24.9 | 3,484 | |
| Deborah Arnetta Cason (Nonpartisan) | 20.0 | 2,801 | ||
 | Pete Fitzpatrick (Nonpartisan) | 15.5 | 2,172 | |
| Richard Young (Nonpartisan) | 11.7 | 1,634 | ||
| Total votes: 14,008 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Echo Prana Salisbury (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Gresick received endorsements from Maryland State Delegate Eric Ebersole, Maryland State Delegate Clarence Lam, Maryland State Delegate Terri Hill, and the Teachers Association of Baltimore County.[1][2][3]
Campaign themes
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Matt Gresick participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on March 23, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Matt Gresick's responses follow below.[4]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Equity |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Systemic transparency related to ensuring decisions are made that include all stakeholders and represent fair and equitable use of resources. Our job is to provide a quality education to all students regardless of zip code. Curriculum development and classroom mandates. We need to reduce classroom distractions so that teachers are empowered to fully engage each student in the classroom.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[6]
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Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Matt Gresick participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 7, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Matt Gresick's responses follow below.[7]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Equity |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Systemic transparency related to ensuring decisions are made that include all stakeholders and represent fair and equitable use of resources. Our job is to provide a quality education to all students regardless of zip code. Curriculum development and classroom mandates. We need to reduce classroom distractions so that teachers are empowered to fully engage each student in the classroom.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[6]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Matt Gresick answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | Delegate Eric Ebersole. He's a friend, a mentor, and a former coworker. Before he was involved in politics, he was someone I looked up to as a professional mentor. After working on his campaign for Maryland General Assembly, he became a political mentor. He represents the power of having an educator in the political process, bringing a unique view to policy making that emphasizes our most at risk populations.[6] | ” |
| “ | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.[6] | ” |
| “ | Empathy, humility, strong work ethic[6] | ” |
| “ | As the only active public school teacher in this race, I have advocated for people and policies that have done the most good for the most students, especially when it comes to advocating for kids who do not have the resources to advocate for themselves.[6] | ” |
| “ | To represent the best interest of students in our community and to serve as a check on executive power.[6] | ” |
| “ | Better facilities, empowered teachers who can reach the most kids, and established trust in the community through transparency.[6] | ” |
| “ | The Challenger Explosion when I was 5 years old.[6] | ” |
| “ | When I was 13, I would unload fruit and vegetable trucks in the summer. I had it for two summers.[6] | ” |
| “ | A girl once stole an apartment that I wanted from me so I had to take the apartment below her. We ended up moving in at the same time and one thing lead to another until she ended up becoming my wife.[6] | ” |
| “ | Thanksgiving because it's just family getting together without judgement, without presents, and without obligation, just enjoying each other.[6] | ” |
| “ | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It has a lot deep meaning within it that can speak to a diverse range of people with regards to their life's journey.[6] | ” |
| “ | Indiana Jones. He gets to teach history and fight Nazis.[6] | ” |
| “ | My guitar. Me and my children all have our own guitars. They constantly see me fail at playing it, but they also never see me give up at it.[6] | ” |
| “ | Rise Up by Andra Day[6] | ” |
| “ | I was asthmatic as a kid and could not play sports. Through hard work, I was able to overcome it and eventually made the Pennsylvania All Stars for football in high school.[6] | ” |
| “ | As I said before, to represent the best interest of students in our community and to serve as a check on executive power.[6] | ” |
| “ | The people of District 1. We are an incredibly diverse and concerned community who are ready for a voice.[6] | ” |
| “ | Ensure an equitable distribution of funding.[6] | ” |
| “ | I have already been involved with community associations, PTA's, advocacy groups, and established government entities.[6] | ” |
| “ | There's a lot we can do. It starts with being transparent in our actions and in our availability to our community.[6] | ” |
| “ | Yes. Diverse students need to see diverse role models in their classrooms. Successful school systems often have alumni as teachers. We need to recruit from our local colleges and universities to bring the success back to the community.[6] | ” |
| “ | Seeing students as data points instead of complex human beings and viewing schools as businesses are roadblocks to improving our education. We need to get back to teaching our students not teaching towards tests and we need to fight back against initiatives to privatize education.[6] | ” |
| “ | What constitutes good art? This is an subjective thing to measure that we cannot put a one size fits all score on. We need to support teacher improvement that is relevant to the unique teaching circumstances of our educators. We can't just look at the test scores of their students. We need to look at who they teach and how they have facilitated meaningful growth.[6] | ” |
| “ | Students need to be guided toward skills in innovation of technology. They also need to be able to evaluate arguments, judge whether sources are reliable, and be able to have civil discourse with people who disagree with them.[6] | ” |
| “ | A 21st Diploma should be as individualized as our students; however, given that that would be logistically impossible I propose varied diplomas based on whether students go a traditional academic path, a vocational path, or a magnet program path. Maryland has College and College-Ready Standards; it’s time for us to honor the career side of those standards.[6] | ” |
| “ | We have a need for advanced technical and apprenticeship programs and we should have road-maps toward those goals that are easily understood and accessible by the general public. For instance, third grade has a parent road-map to success for that grade so in turn we should have a student road-map for success toward college and career readiness.[6] | ” |
| “ | The Kirwan Commission should be honored and fully funded, paying particularly close attention to our most at-risk populations.[6] | ” |
| “ | The number one principle that needs to be fostered to ensure school safety is that every student that attends Baltimore County Public Schools should know that they have an adult advocate in their corner. This kind of relationship fosters trust and troubleshoots dangerous outcomes where individuals feel that there are no other options than to resort to violence.[6] | ” |
| “ | We need more support services and staff to assess and then help those students/faculty/staff in need.[6] | ” |
| “ | Right now, technology is outpacing morality and society’s ability to adjust to new realities that advances in technology present. Keeping that in mind, technology should always be seen as a tool to enhance instruction and not its replacement.[6] | ” |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Baltimore Sun, "First southwest area candidate files for Baltimore County school board", January 4, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia via email on April 7, 2018
- ↑ Baltimore Sun, "In Baltimore County exec race, Almond and Brochin land key endorsements", April 12, 2018
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Matt Gresick's responses," March 23, 2018 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
| Baltimore County Public Schools elections in 2018 | |
| Baltimore County, Maryland | |
| Election date: | Primary Election: June 26, 2018 • General Election: November 6, 2018 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Deborah Arnetta Cason • Pete Fitzpatrick • Matt Gresick • Lisa Mack • Echo Prana Salisbury • Richard Young District 2: • Anthony Miles Glasser • Cheryl Pasteur District 3: • Incumbent, Kathleen Causey • John Egan • Paul Evitts • Paul Konka • John Lang III • Joan Magnani • Michael Petrella • Michael Voelker District 4: • Gaston Horne • Tara Huffman • Makeda Scott • Regina Ann Smith • Autrese Thornton • Kathleen White District 5: • Incumbent, Julie Henn • Peter Beilenson District 6: • Edward Kitlowski • Lily Rowe District 7: • William Feuer • Rod McMillion • Eric Washington |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
