Michael Ouk
Michael Ouk was a candidate for at-large representative on the Lynn School Committee in Massachusetts. He was defeated in the general election on November 3, 2015.[1]
Elections
2015
- See also: Lynn Public Schools elections (2015)
The Lynn School Committee consists of seven members, six of whom are elected to two-year terms. The seventh member and chair of the board is the Mayor of Lynn. The other six members of the board are elected at large by the district as a whole. The general election was held on November 3, 2015. Incumbents Donna Coppola (D), John Ford Jr. (D), Patricia M. Capano (D), and Maria O. Carrasco (D) won re-election, while Lorraine Gately (D) and Jared Nicholson (D) joined the board. They defeated Dolores Jean DiFillipo (D), Natasha Megie-Maddrey (D), June Natola (R), and Michael Ouk (I).
While the school committee is a nonpartisan office, candidate filings for this election included the party enrollment of each candidate. Eight Democrats, one Republican, and one unenrolled candidate filed for the at-large race. A primary election was not necessary because all 10 candidates appeared on a joint ballot in the general election.[1]
Results
| Lynn School Committee, At-large, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Donna Coppola Incumbent |
13.4% | 4,560 |
| John Ford Jr. Incumbent |
12.5% | 4,257 |
| Lorraine Gately |
12.5% | 4,248 |
| Jared Nicholson |
11.9% | 4,024 |
| Patricia Capano Incumbent |
11.4% | 3,867 |
| Maria Carrasco Incumbent |
10.9% | 3,712 |
| Dolores Jean DiFillipo | 9.1% | 3,104 |
| Michael Ouk | 8.5% | 2,867 |
| June Natola | 5.2% | 1,762 |
| Natasha Megie-Maddrey | 4.3% | 1,451 |
| Write-in votes | 0.22% | 74 |
| Total Votes | 33,926 | |
| Source: City of Lynn, "Municipal Election: Lynn, MA," accessed November 4, 2015 | ||
Funding
Ouk reported $3,155.00 in contributions and $1,659.41 in expenditures to the Lynn City Clerk, which left his campaign with $1,495.59 on hand as of October 28, 2015.[2]
Endorsements
| Candidate forum, July 29, 2015 |
Ouk received the official endorsement of the North Shore Labor Council.[3]
Campaign themes
2015
Candidate website
Ouk's campaign website listed the following themes for 2015:
| “ |
Educating the Whole Child I look forward to collaborating with our school administrators and educators to increase student and family services while carefully coordinating with outside agencies, such as Girls, Inc. and the YMCA, in order to overcome social and non-academic barriers to student learning. Doing so would help bridge the achievement gap while mitigating some of the burdens placed on teachers in the classroom. Funding K-12 Public Education For Fiscal Year 2015, the State Legislature established the Foundation Budget Review Commission (FBRC) to reexamine the state's formula for determining how much it costs to adequately educate each child in our public schools and make recommendations to the Legislature for potential changes to the formula. If elected, I will use my office to seek inclusion in the FBRC's discussions and advocate for the Legislature to take a fresh look at the model school budget in light of the FBRC's recommendations and the State's potential capacity to invest more in K-12 public education and to update the formula to reflect recent changes in our education needs, such as new classroom technologies, accounting for Lynn's relatively larger proportion of low-income families, accommodating our many English Language Learners, and meeting the need for more Mental Health/wraparound services. If the State can dedicate a larger share of resources to education spending while relying less on local revenue to fund K-12 education, it may free up Lynn to allocate more resources to other needs in the city, such as public safety and improvements to infrastructure, while still ensuring that our students continue receiving the best education possible to prepare them to be competitive in the 21st century workforce. Lynn's Education Infrastructure I will work with my colleagues on the School Committee to continue planning and forging ahead with replacing our aging school buildings with safer, more comfortable ones that can adequately accommodate our students and to help ensure they get as much as possible out of their time spent in school. [4] |
” |
| —Michael Ouk (2015), [5] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Lynn Public Schools, Massachusetts
- Lynn 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LynnCam TV, "School Committee," accessed September 8, 2015
- ↑ Lynn City Clerk, "Campaign Finance Report Archives 2015-2010," accessed October 30, 2015
- ↑ Facebook, "Michael Ouk for Lynn School Committee," October 1, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ouk for Lynn, "Issues," accessed October 26, 2015
