Stephen Spring

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Stephen Spring

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Elections and appointments

Last election

November 2, 2021

Stephen Spring ran for election to the Atlanta Public Schools school board to represent At-Large Seat 7 in Georgia. Spring lost in the general election on November 2, 2021.

Elections

2021

See also: Atlanta Public Schools, Georgia, elections (2021)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Atlanta Public Schools school board At-Large Seat 7

Tamara Jones defeated KaCey Venning in the general runoff election for Atlanta Public Schools school board At-Large Seat 7 on November 30, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tamara Jones (Nonpartisan)	66.9	45,034
	Submit photo	KaCey Venning (Nonpartisan)	33.1	22,250

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 67,284
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General election

General election for Atlanta Public Schools school board At-Large Seat 7

Tamara Jones and KaCey Venning advanced to a runoff. They defeated Patricia Crayton, Royce Carter Mann, and Stephen Spring in the general election for Atlanta Public Schools school board At-Large Seat 7 on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tamara Jones (Nonpartisan)	39.2	30,391
✔	Submit photo	KaCey Venning (Nonpartisan)	19.9	15,392
	Submit photo	Patricia Crayton (Nonpartisan)	15.1	11,708
	Submit photo	Royce Carter Mann (Nonpartisan)	12.9	10,003
	Submit photo	Stephen Spring (Nonpartisan)	12.2	9,434
		Other/Write-in votes	0.7	567

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 77,495
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Campaign themes

2021

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Campaign website

Spring's campaign website stated the following:

“	Defund Standardized Testing - It's about Equity The Atlanta Public School system has a decades-long practice of over-testing children. Every student in every school in Atlanta suffers because of this top-down, institutional malpractice . Our children are missing out on time to learn the curriculum we are legally bound to provide. Over-relying on these narrow tests denies our teachers opportunities to extend learning beyond the basics so that our students get the holistic and more comprehensive world-class education they deserve. In our schools whose mere existence is determined by these standardized tests, our students are denied 1/3rd of the curriculum year after year after year. By the time many of our students get to high school, they have been denied 3 years of learning. Standardized testing leads to greater inequities in our schools and this has to stop. I am your candidate and I am uniquely qualified to interrupt the system. When you elect Stephen Spring, you will have a voice who promises to defund the mechanisms that take away learning time from our children and youth. In year one, I will be voting to defund standardized testing in Atlanta Public Schools and I will work 24/8 to get four more votes on Atlanta's School Board to stand up for learning and do the right thing. Reallocate Taxpayers' $$$$ to the Point of Learning - It's about Outcomes Successful school systems put your money at the point of learning - IN THE CLASSROOM! The current Atlanta School Board spends an oversized chunk of your money in areas far removed from the point of learning. Tens of millions of dollars of your money are spent on wasteful personnel, assessments, and unnecessary and ineffective curriculum oversight. I am your candidate and I am uniquely qualified to interrupt the system. When you elect Stephen Spring, he will step up to make sure that these dollars are reallocated to the classroom. Rather than spending your money on bureaucracy and outsourcing your dollars to for-profit schemes, I will be using my seat at the budget table to make sure your students have quality, well-paid teachers, relevant curriculum resources, and reduced class sizes so that our children are given the attention needed to be held to rigorous learning and the space to explore possibilities. Empower School Communities to make Real Decisions - It's about Relevance The people close to the heart of their neighborhood school know what's best for their children. Families, teachers and school staff, students, and community members must be given far greater authority and autonomy to make decisions on curriculum, policy, and resource allocation. Stephen Spring will interrupt the top-down and highly ineffective tradition in Atlanta Public Schools of telling teachers what and how to teach and families what and how their children will learn. He will interrupt the tradition of doing policy to schools. Spring will empower GoTeams, PTAs, and other formal and informal parent-teacher-community groups to - like the communities that crafted and sustained Atlanta's Paideia School or the Freedom Schools model in Detroit - enact effective programs and policies that they know work for their children. And we do this to not only keep children and families in Atlanta Public Schools, but because it's simply the right thing to do.... period. And, by reallocating tens of millions of dollars to the point of learning, decisions on how to spend real money will be in the hands of those closest to our children. I am your candidate and I am uniquely qualified to interrupt the system.	”
—Stephen Spring's campaign website (2021)

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