Candidates
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Ken Chawkins
- Occupation: Businessman
- Parent
Priorities:
- Accountability for results connected to administrators, teachers and principals.
- Responsiveness to the community's needs, including those of teachers who need support and resources in the classroom.
- No excuses for mediocre performance.
Peter M. Soelter
- Occupation: Parent and PTA President - Previously, CFO, UCLA Extension
- I am the only CPA candidate - 9 yrs with the "Big-six" accounting firm of Ernst and Young and 5 yrs as Chief Financial Officer of UCLA Extension.
- I have the experience to make large educational bureaucracies more responsive.
- I am the only candidate with children in both middle and elementary school in PUSD.
- I expect the best for my children - from their teachers, principals and our school district.
- As a volunteer I am a PTA President and helped found the Community Coalition for Quality Public Schools and Education Summit process.
- I have begun many programs to improve schools in our District.
Priorities:
- Implement the recommendations of the Charter Reform Task Force. I am committed to insuring that the PUSD not drop the ball again.
- Look at creative ways to allow more children to attend school in their neighborhood. We have a historic opportunity in northwest Pasadena now.
- Look at creative ways to work with the cities and county areas that make up our district. For instance, to share library resources or property sites.
Teddy Choi
Marguerite Hougasian
Basic candidate data supplied by the applicable elections official.
Order of candidates is random and changes daily.
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Official Information
- City Clerk's Election Website
- Pasadena Unified School District Website
Events
- Candidate Forum
- Feb 24, 10am-1pm; contact League of Women Voters (626)798-0965
- Feb 24 Forum tape on TV Channel 56:
- Tues 2/27: 12-1:30pm; 5pm-6pm, 10pm-11pm
- Wed 2/28: 12:30pm-1:30pm; 4pm-5pm, 9pm-10pm
- Thur 3/1: 12-1pm, 3:30pm-6pm
- Fri 3/2: 12-2pm; 4:30pm-7pm, 9:30pm-12
- Sat 3/3: 2:30pm-5pm, 8:30 pm-11pm
- Sun 3/4: 4:30 pm-7pm
- Mon 3/5: 8:30 pm- 11pm
- Tues 3/6: 12 noon-1:30pm; 5pm-6pm, 10pm-11pm
- Candidate Forum
- Thurs Mar 1, 7 pm, Altadena Library Community Room, 600 West Mariposa, Altadena, Contact Altadena Town Council Education Subcommittee 626-797-6464
- Candidate Forum
- Monday Mar 5, 7 pm, Polytechnical School, Garland Theater, corner of California and Wilson; Contact: Natalie Kolawa (626)357-2503, Pasadena Youth Council
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