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Shawnna Hayes-Tavares
Shawnna Hayes-Tavares ran for the District 6 seat on the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education in a general election on November 5, 2013.
Biography
Hayes-Tavares graduated from Wilberforce University with a B.A. in Mass Communications and completed master's work at Georgia State University in Sociology. She has held numerous parent/community positions, including, PTA President & Vice-President, Local School Councils, Parent Liaison. She has lead numerous committee chairs such as: Special Needs, Parental Involvement, Legislative & Advocacy, Community Outreach, Cultural Arts, Communications, Website and others. She has served her community in her Neighborhood Planning Units (NPU) as vice-chair and education committee chair and served as the Education’s Committee Legislative/Advocacy Sub-Committee Chair for The Atlanta Planning Advisory Board at the time of her candidacy. She has traveled throughout Georgia with the Georgia PTA hosting workshops for teacher’s training on Building Successful Partnerships with an emphasis on parent relationships. Hayes-Tavares also served on U.S. Congressman John Lewis’ inaugural Education Committee. As the Parent Liaison at ML King Middle School, she led meetings with parents, developed Parent Patrol and held monthly leadership meetings with feeder pattern PTA leaders, Parent Liaison, Local School Council and principals. She has also served on the Parental Involvement Task Force and Committee, Special Needs Task Force, Middle School transition committee, Parent Handbook, Placement Focus Group, Design Team, Renovation Committee, Superintendent Stakeholders interviewee and sat on the panels to hire the Gifted and Talented Executive Director, Academy Leaders and Principal panels. She represented parents at the launch of the “Be There” Campaign for APS at WXIA Channel 11 and co-sponsored the only city-wide Candidates Forum for the 2009 BOE candidates. Hayes-Tavares recently presented at the GA PIRC Conference at the GA Aquarium, where she spoke to over 200 attendees and was the highest rated facilitator for the three day conference with her workshop “Navigating the Atlanta Public School System”. She represented parents on the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce EduPac Stakeholders Board, CIS of GA Board and led the “Parents and Educators for Kasim Reed”, an initiative for the then candidate and now mayor of Atlanta to continue partnerships for public schools. In 2010, she co-founded CASE (Community Advocates for Special Education) and was elected president for SNAPPS (Southwest & Northwest Atlanta Parents & Partners for Schools). She facilitated workshops to inform, educate and empower parents and those who work with parents at the CIS of GA PIRC Conference at the Georgia Aquarium with her emphasis on Special Needs. Hayes-Tavares has represented Atlanta parents at various events, such as being one of 50 people invited by CNN to a personal conversation about education and as a delegate from Georgia to attend Senate hearings and Congressional meetings in April 2011 to give testimony on Elementary & Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Recently, she earned her Urban Family Engagement Initiative Certification (Train the Trainer) a national family engagement program from National PTA. Hayes-Tavares also sits on educational panels and is solicited regularly by local, state, national and international media to give her views on public education. She is married to husband, David, and has four children who attended APS schools.[1]
Elections
2013
- See also: Atlanta Public Schools elections (2013)
Hayes-Tavares ran for the District 6 seat against Anne Wofford McKenzie, Dell Byrd and Eshé Collins on November 5, 2013. Opponents Eshé Collins and Dell Byrd faced each other in a runoff election on December 3, 2013.
Results
| Atlanta Public Schools, District 6 General Election, 4-year term, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Eshe Collins |
35.9% | 2,830 | |
| Nonpartisan | Dell Byrd |
25.4% | 2,000 | |
| Nonpartisan | Shawanna Hayes-Tavares | 23.1% | 1,818 | |
| Nonpartisan | Anne Wofford McKenzie | 15.4% | 1,217 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in | 0.2% | 17 | |
| Total Votes | 7,882 | |||
| Source: Fulton County Board of Election, "Election Results," accessed October 30, 2017 | ||||
Funding
Hayes-Tavares reported $12,370.88 in contributions and $6,075.84 in expenditures to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission , which left her campaign with $6,295.04 on hand.[2]
Endorsements
Hayes-Tavares did not receive any official endorsements for her campaign.
About the district
- See also: Atlanta Public Schools, Georgia
Atlanta Public Schools is located in parts of Fulton County and DeKalb County, Georgia. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County. Atlanta is home to 443,775 residents.[3]
Demographics
Atlanta underperforms the state in median household income and poverty rate, but outperforms the state in higher education. According to the 2010 Census, the median household income in Atlanta is $45,946 compared to Georgia's statewide median of $49,736. The rate of residents below the poverty level in Atlanta is 23.2% while the state rate is 16.5%. The percentage of residents over 25 with a bachelor's degree or higher in Atlanta is 46.1%, compared to the state average of 27.5%.[3]
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Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Shawnna Hayes-Tavares Atlanta School Board District 6, "Bio," accessed October 29, 2013
- ↑ Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission, "Hayes-Tavares, Shawnna," accessed December 26, 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 2010 Census: Quick Facts, "Atlanta," accessed October 23, 2013"
- ↑ Fulton County Registration and Elections, "Archived Election Results," accessed October 23, 2013
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