Shivi Prasad-Madhukar

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Shivi Prasad-Madhukar

Prior offices

Edison Township Public Schools school board, At-large

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Education

Graduate

New York University, Wagner School of Public Service

Personal

Profession

Policy analyst

Shivi Prasad-Madhukar was an at-large representative of the Edison Township Board of Education in New Jersey. The general election was held on November 3, 2015. Shivi Prasad-Madhukar won the general election on November 3, 2015.

Prasad-Madhukar previously ran for an at-large seat on the board in 2014. She lost in the general election on April 23, 2014.

Biography

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Prasad-Madhukar earned her M.P.A. with a specialization in public policy from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. She began her career by spending more than 15 years in the public sector before taking a policy analyst position with the nonprofit Poverty Research Institute operated by Legal Services of New Jersey. Prasad-Madhukar has volunteered at Martin Luther King School in the Edison Township school district and serves as the vice president of the John Adams Middle School PTO.

Elections

2015

See also: Edison Township Public Schools elections (2015)

Three seats on the Edison Township school board were up for general election on November 3, 2015. The seats of incumbents Deborah Anes, Lora L. Fong, and Margot Harris were on the ballot. Anes won re-election, while newcomers Ralph Errico and Shivi Prasad-Madhukar joined the board. They defeated William Araujo, Richard Brescher, Hollie Gilroy, Dennis Pipala, Deborah Schildkraut, and Kiel Thoms. Anes, Pipala, and Schildkraut were running as a slate.

Results

Edison Township Board of Education, At-large, General Election, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Deborah Anes Incumbent	17.1%	3,325
Ralph Errico	13.6%	2,639
Shivi Prasad-Madhukar	13.4%	2,607
William Araujo	13.0%	2,535
Deborah Schildkraut	10.7%	2,081
Dennis Pipala	10.1%	1,978
Richard Brescher	10.1%	1,957
Hollie Gilroy	7.6%	1,485
Kiel Thoms	4.3%	823
Total Votes		19,430
Source: Middlesex County, "Nov 3, 2015 General Election," accessed December 18, 2015

Funding

Prasad-Madhukar reported no contributions or expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission as of October 27, 2015.

Endorsements

Prasad-Madhukar did not receive any official endorsements in this election.

2014

See also: Edison Township Public Schools elections (2014)

Shivi Prasad-Madhukar lost to incumbents Jingwei Shi and Frank Heelan and fellow newcomer Beth Moroney for the three at-large seats in the general election on April 23, 2014. Shi, Heelan and Prasad-Madhukar campaigned as one slate and Moroney, Kiel Thoms and Chang-Hui Shen campaigned as a separate "Team E3" slate.

Results

Edison Township Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Beth Moroney	18.1%	2,133
	Nonpartisan	Frank Heelan Incumbent	17.7%	2,089
	Nonpartisan	Jingwei Shi Incumbent	15%	1,768
	Nonpartisan	Shivi Prasad-Madhukar	13.4%	1,581
	Nonpartisan	Kiel Thoms	12.4%	1,466
	Nonpartisan	Patrick Amaral	11.5%	1,353
	Nonpartisan	Chang-Hui Shen	8%	945
	Nonpartisan	Naseeruddin Mohammad	4%	473
Total Votes				11,808
Source: Edison Township Public Schools, "Public BOE Meeting - Reorganization Meeting," April 28, 2014

Funding

Prasad-Madhukar did not report any campaign contributions or expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission during the election.

Endorsements

Prasad-Madhukar did not receive any official endorsements for her campaign.

Campaign themes

2014

Prasad-Madhukar shared a campaign website with Jingwei Shi and Frank Heelan, where they listed themes for their 2014 campaigns:

“	Students First Every act by a school board should be based on what is best for students. A school system exists primarily to advance the interests of the students, not the interests of the adults. Independence and Integrity We three candidates pledge to always act with integrity. Furthermore, we are independent and not beholden to any group or organization. In addition, none of us has or will have a relative working for the system. Fiscal Responsibility Taxpayers of Edison are shouldering a huge burden to support their public schools. They pay 90% of the costs whereas, in the average school district in the State, the local taxpayers provide only 56% of the operating funds. We will always spend money responsibly and with full appreciation of the needs of taxpayers. Governance Governance is the work of school boards. They do not administer the schools. That is the job of the superintendent and those he/she recommends for the various positions. Meddling in the work of employees by board members is called “micromanagement”: it is improper and we deplore it. Openness There will be no secrets on the school board on which we serve. We will fully divulge what we do to the extent legally permissible and air the issues. The people pay the bills and they have a right to know what is happening.	”
—Jerry Shi, Frank Heelan and Shivi Pradad's slate campaign website, 2014

See also

• Edison Township Public Schools, New Jersey
• Edison Township Public Schools elections (2014)
• Edison Township 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)

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