Anne B. Holton
Richmond School Board member (District 6); former Virginia Secretary of Education
The gist
- Proposes helping all students read fluently by third grade.
- Supports ensuring mastery of key elementary math skills.
- Supports redesigning high school around career exploration.
- Pledges to attract and retain teachers for every classroom.
- Opposes an outside forensic audit; backs the in-house auditor.
- Pledges to press for more open responses to records requests.
- Supports sharply reducing student screen time and collective bargaining.
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Proposes helping all students read fluently by third grade.
Anne's PrioritiesCampaign website · Holton for School Board · anneholton4schoolboard.com
“Helping all students read fluently and joyfully by third grade”
Supports ensuring mastery of key elementary math skills.
Anne's PrioritiesCampaign website · Holton for School Board · anneholton4schoolboard.com
“Ensuring mastery of key math skills in elementary school, which are the building blocks for secondary STEM courses”
Supports redesigning high school around career exploration.
Anne's PrioritiesCampaign website · Holton for School Board · anneholton4schoolboard.com
“Redesigning high school to enhance passion for learning and career exploration, as outlined in RPS's Dreams4RPS strategic plan”
Pledges to attract and retain teachers for every classroom.
Anne's PrioritiesCampaign website · Holton for School Board · anneholton4schoolboard.com
“Attracting and retaining great teachers for every RPS classroom and strong PTA's for every school”
Holton, McDonnough stress importance of teachers, but differ on details at debateDebate / forum transcript · The Richmonder · richmonder.org
“an overwhelming majority of our teachers and staff are satisfied, and that metric has been improving”
Opposes an outside forensic audit; backs the in-house auditor.
Holton, McDonnough stress importance of teachers, but differ on details at debateDebate / forum transcript · The Richmonder · richmonder.org
“much cheaper to do in-house, and much more appropriate”
Pledges to press for more open responses to records requests.
Holton, McDonnough stress importance of teachers, but differ on details at debateDebate / forum transcript · The Richmonder · richmonder.org
“balance that against the public interest and the right to know”
Supports sharply reducing student screen time and collective bargaining.
Holton, McDonnough stress importance of teachers, but differ on details at debateDebate / forum transcript · The Richmonder · richmonder.org
“Both would like to see screen time sharply reduced for students, particularly younger ones. They also both voiced their support for collective bargaining”