Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election Voters Guide
June 2, 2020
Candidacy by Position
Candidacy by Topic
Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election voters guide includes campaign emails, social media, and websites of each Board of Education primary candidate for Prince George’s County’s 4th and 7th District.
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The primary election for Prince George’s County’s Board of Education was on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Top issues for this election include accountability, facility rehabs, and teacher salaries. Check out kBoulevard’s Prince George’s County’s Board of Education for the 4th and 7th District candidates’ guide.
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Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election Candidate
Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election for District 4
Mohammed Ali
M. Ali’s Bio
- Professor of Mathematics and Information Technology at Prince George’s Community College
- Served as School Education Board at Prince George’s Muslim Association in Lanham, Maryland
- M.Ed. in Education at Morgan State University
Initiatives
- Advocates to work with the school to help improve academic performance to help with higher education
- Seeks to understand the needs of students, parents, teachers, and all community stakeholders
- Proposes recruiting and retaining teachers through professional development
Shayla Adams-Stafford
(Winner)
- Developed the first Women’s Studies Curriculum for High School Students in Durham Public Schools
- Endorsed by Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA)
- Member of the National Faculty of the Buck Institute of Education
- Seeks to recruit and retain top talent – in PG and across the state we are losing highly qualified teachers every year
- Advocates for the need to promote, expand and enhance these programs with more funding partnerships
- Supports explore, enhance, and implement restorative practices in our classrooms and communities
Alethia J. Simmons
- Founder of non-profit 7 Keys to a Mother’s Heart Ministry, Wash, DC, and MD
- Educational Counselor and Program Coordinator
- M.S. in Guidance and Counseling from Trinity College
- Seeks to address school infrastructure (renovation, new construction, etc.) and engage the private sector for innovation, staff shortage, teacher accountability, and salary increase
- Advocates reaching out to the community (churches, nonprofit organizations, fraternal organization, businesses) for resources, support and partnerships
- Supports specialty programs, such as language immersion, recommending expanding program offerings
Bryan M. Swann
(Winner)
- Incumbent: Serves as Prince George’s County Board of Education District 4
- Serves as Deputy Director at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
- M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard University
- Cites more accountable and effective funding execution
- Proponent for Pre-K3 and Pre-K4 for all
- Advocates for competitive teacher pay
Trina D. Brown
Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election for District 7
Alexis Nicole Branch
(Winner)
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- Researcher for non-profit IMPACT-SE
- NAACP Vice President at Bennett College
- B.A. in Political Science from Bennett College
- Advocates to equip our students with iPad because it is eco-friendly, and we should not have waited until it was a pandemic to ensure our students had what they needed at home to be successful students
- Supports the expansion of specialty programs. I would like to see all elementary school students in a bilingual learning environment
- Cites the school system should focus on the mental health of our children to come back
Kenneth F. Harris, II
(Winner)
- Involved in projects at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Senior Engineering at NASA
- B.S. from University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Advocates to provide free preschool and pre-kindergarten for all three and four-year-old’s
- Seeks to enhance the classroom to internship pipeline
- Proponent for increasing teacher salaries
K. Alexander Wallace
- Incumbent: Serves as Prince George’s County Board of Education District 7
- Legislative and Constituent Aide to State Sen. Currie
- M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Seeks to establish a community school policy that will enable educators and administrators to seek beneficial partnerships with local, state, and regional nonprofits, businesses
- Cites Suitland High School needs to be rebuilt, determined to go to Annapolis and fight for construction funds
- Seeks to empower educators with an equitable salary that is comparable to their peers in other jurisdictions
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For the official 2020 Primary Election results for Prince George’s County, check out Maryland Board of Elections.
Prince George’s County Board of Education Primary Election Candidate by Topic
Candidates on Budget and Operations
District 4 – Alethia J. Simmons
- Seeks to address school infrastructure (renovation, new construction, etc.) and engage the private sector for innovation, staff shortage, teacher accountability, and salary increase
- Cites more accountable and effective funding execution
- Advocates improving the school bus system
District 7 – K. Alexander Wallace
- Cites Suitland High School needs to be rebuilt, determined to go to Annapolis and fight for construction funds
District 7 – Kenneth F. Harris, II
- Prioritizes rebuilding and renovating older school buildings
- Advocates to reopen Forestville Military School
- Advocates rebuild Suitland High School
Candidates on Curriculum
- Advocates for career and technical education
- Advocates for hands-on engagement
- Advocates to work with the school to help improve academic performance to help with higher education
District 4 – Shayla Adams-Stafford
- Cites to explore, enhance, and implement restorative practices in our classrooms and communities
District 7 – Alexis Nicole Branch
- Advocates for bilingual education in every elementary school classroom
Candidates on Community Relations
District 4 – Alethia J. Simmons
- Advocates reaching out to the community (churches, nonprofit organizations, fraternal organization, businesses) for resources, support and partnerships
- Advocates to maintain regular communication between home and school, i.e., text, emails, etc.
- Advocates to increase partnerships with local businesses, public organizations, churches, etc.
- Cites efforts to understand the needs of students, parents, teachers, and all community stakeholders
District 7 – Alexis Nicole Branch
- Seeks more mentorship programs involving our parents, more transparent conversations hosted by the school with the students and parents, more effective counseling services
- Promotes demand for more real community service not just turning in coats for hours but delivering the coats, serving meals, and encouraging them to get more involved
District 7 – K. Alexander Wallace
- Advocates the “A Sense of Pride” initiative, a budgetary line item will where a student or an approved student group, can submit a grant seeking funding to assist with the identified event/endeavor/initiative
- Proposes the establishment of an alumni engagement team that will be tasked with working with all high schools to assist in engaging with their alumni
Candidates on Extracurricular Programs
District 4 – Alethia J. Simmons
- Supports specialty programs, such as language immersion, recommending expanding program offerings
District 4 – Shayla Adams-Stafford
- Supports students in learning coding languages early on and provide them with pathways to earn a certification
- Advocates for the need to promote, expand and enhance these programs with more funding partnerships
District 7 – Alexis Nicole Branch
- Supports the expansion of specialty programs. I would like to see all elementary school students in a bilingual learning environment
- Seeks to provide more opportunities for our children like study abroad programs, free scholarship grants, and mentorship
District 7 – Kenneth F. Harris, II
- Seeks to increase innovative programs to spark curiosity and encourage learning
- Seeks to expand summer school and extended school day opportunities
- Seeks to enhance the classroom to internship pipeline
Candidates on Inclusion, Special Needs, and Cultural Issues
District 4 – Alexis Nicole Branch
- Advocates to equip our students with iPad because it is eco-friendly, and we should not have waited until it was a pandemic to ensure our students had what they needed at home to be successful students
- Opposes the lottery program, I think every child in the county should have the same opportunity at a successful future
- Seeks more equity in our classrooms
Candidates on Health Services and Public Safety
District 4 – Alethia J. Simmons
- Advocates schools should begin to prepare a comprehensive plan to be executed should another pandemic, contagious disease outbreaks, national emergency, as well as reopening’s
- Promotes soliciting concerns, address them, and follow up
- Advocates for safe and welcoming schools for all
- Advocates for increase mental health support
District 7 – Alexis Nicole Branch
- Cites the school system should focus on the mental health of our children to come back
- Helping students understand their worth
District 7 – K. Alexander Wallace
- Proposes students who commit a nonviolent, nonbullying, and nonsexual offense shall be required to complete community service or in-school counseling, as opposed to being removed from school
- Supports the establishment of an Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign in all high schools that are developed and implemented by each school’s Student Government Association
Candidates on Pre and Post Education
- Proponent for Pre-K3 and Pre-K4 for all
District 7 – Kenneth F. Harris, II
- Advocates to provide free preschool and pre-kindergarten for all three and four-year-old’s
- Seeks to expand Universal Free Pre-K
Candidates on Teach and Staff Support
- Proposes recruiting and retaining teachers through professional development
- Seeks to enable teachers to do what they do best
District 4 – Shayla Adams-Stafford
- Advocates for the need to provide similar opportunities for teachers in our district and to help them grow in their practice
- Seeks to recruit and retain top talent – in PG and across the state we are losing highly qualified teachers every year
District 7 – K. Alexander Wallace
- Seeks to establish a community school policy that will enable educators and administrators to seek beneficial partnerships with local, state, and regional nonprofits, businesses
- Seeks to empower educators with an equitable salary that is comparable to their peers in other jurisdictions
District 7 – Kenneth F. Harris, II
- Advocates to lower the average class sizes
- Proponent for increasing teacher salaries
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