What's holding Richmond back? and What motivated candidates to run?
(Cover Photo from RISC's August 29th Mayoral Forum)
This week we asked Richmond’s Mayoral and Council candidates about how to spend revenue from cannabis sales and how to improve youth homicide. We asked our School Board Candidates to discuss services for English Learner and Hispanic students, and who to credit with this year's improvements to graduation, attendance, and SOL scores.
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This week we asked Richmond’s Mayoral and Council candidates about recent headlines out of the city's Finance Department, and we asked our School Board Candidates to discuss the results of a recent audit.
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This week we asked Richmond’s Mayoral and Council candidates how they will address the causes and effects of climate change, and our School Board Candidates to discuss their budgeting philosophy as a fiscally dependent governing body.
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This week we asked Richmond’s candidates to indicate their support for past and current policy proposals in a LIGHTNING ROUND
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This week we asked Richmond’s candidates to weigh in on the ever-important relationship between City leaders and the Richmond School Board.
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This week we asked Richmond’s candidates to share a bit about their public engagement philosophy - and asked the Richmond community how they preferred to be engaged. Let’s see how their answers lined up!
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We asked Mayoral and City Council candidates to describe their ideal development project, and asked School Board candidates how they would address over crowding and underutilization of RPS schools.
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Building off of Week 1’s question, we asked all candidates:
“How do you plan to find the funding to invest in your priorities?“
We kicked off our survey with an obvious - but important! - question:
”What is your biggest funding priority?”