| (This item appears here as a matter of public record. For the full article, please contact the Miami Herald at www.herald.com) NEWS Published Sunday, November 5, 2000, in the Miami Herald Broward school-vote change nearly done BY SUSAN FERRECHIO [email protected] For the first time, the School Board member who represents Broward's urban core will be elected solely from that urban core. That's the result of a soon-to-be completed transition from countywide election of School Board members to election from single-member districts. Single-member districts were established in 1998, ending the policy of allowing every voter in the county to vote for candidates in each of the seven School Board districts. ..... As part of the switch to single member districts, the board is expanding from seven members to nine, two of whom will be ``at-large'' members representing the entire county. .... It may be more than money, however, that cost Bogdanoff the School Board seat. School Board elections, until this year, were partisan. Bogdanoff ran as a Republican, Oliphant as a Democrat. At the time, a Republican had not been seated on the board since 1982. That streak was broken two years ago when a single member district was created that included enough Republicans to elect Judie S. Budnick, who won a second term in September's primary. ..... ``People have a real choice,'' Fertig said. ``I think what happened in District 5 is really exciting. When you have a choice and it brings people out to vote, it involves people in the system and we need that to enable school reform.'' Ernestine Price, a grandmother and a school activist who lives in Pompano Beach, said she believes single-member districts help make board members more accountable to their constituents. But she also believes the district lines should be redrawn so that schools in poor and wealthy neighborhoods are distributed more evenly. District 5, the only School Board race on the Broward ballot Tuesday, includes most of the poorest neighborhoods in the county. ``The lines ought to be drawn so that everyone will be accountable to the students and the residents in this county,'' Price said. |
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