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In addition to our 2023 voter’s guide for the ISD 197 school board candidates and levies, we’ve added a printable voter’s guide for this year’s election. In our ongoing efforts to inform voters, we hope this at-a-glance chart can offer a quick overview and be a starting point for your election research.
Download the chart, print it, share it, use it. Remember to vote on Tuesday, November 7 (or before then with absentee voting).
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This printable voter’s guide is just a summary of candidate positions. For full responses and more details, be sure to check out our detailed voter’s guide, with more info on candidates, including links to our candidate questionnaires and other sources. The detailed voter’s guide will be updated throughout the election with the latest info.
We consider this chart to be a starting point for your research. Only so much can fit in a chart. Some notes about how we created it:
- We tried to include useful information that helped differentiate the candidates. This required leaving off some information, that while helpful, didn’t show any differences. This included questions about supporting LGBTQ+ rights (all said yes) and how many candidate forums they attended (all five have attended all of them so far).
- We also experimented with new questions, such as how many school board meetings the candidates had attended in person. Unfortunately, that question needs more nuance (such as adding a time frame like before you filed to run) and has a difficult issue of fact checking (incumbent Byron Schwab responded that he had attended “all” meetings—but we’re aware of one absence in the past three months, never mind the previous 11 years).
- For more detailed and nuanced responses, see our full election coverage.
- Finally, we always encourage voters to contact candidates directly if they have additional questions about a candidate’s position.
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