Joanne Lentino
Pinellas County School Board Dist. No. 1 / C / C / B / C / B / C
Matt Stewart
Pinellas County School Board District No. 1 / B / A / B / A / B / B+
Charlie Crist
Congressional District 13 / F / F / F / F / F / F
David Jolly
Congressional District 13 / A / B / A / A / A
Grading:
Ratings NO. A : Response in line with St. Petersburg Branch NAACP’s position with sufficient justification.
Rating No. B : Response not in line with St. Petersburg Branch NAACP but offered rational justification.
Rating No. C : Response is in line with St. Petersburg Branch’s NAACP position but not sufficiently justified.
Rating No. D : Response is not in line with St. Petersburg Branch NAACP position, and justification not supported/justified.
Rating No. F: Candidate simply did not respond appropriately to the question or candidate committed to attend but did not show or did not give sufficient notice that an emergency had arisen or simply failed to acknowledge the NAACP’s invitation.
Pinellas County School Board Candidates questions:
1. What do you see as the primary reasons there is such an achievement gap between African American students and their white counterparts?
2. If elected what are your top three priorities to close the achievement gap?
3. Do you support the so called challenged schools becoming magnet schools? If yes why? If no, why not?
4. If you were to give Dr. Grego a letter grade from A-F what would that grade be and your justification for the grade?
5. The School board is currently involved in two lawsuits, Bradley in the state courts and Crowley in the Federal courts, as a newly elected school board member what would be your position in bringing the district into compliance with the mandates of these two court cases?
Congressman Jolly questions:
1. If elected how do you see Congress financially supporting a strategy to support independently and faith based early childhood education centers to becoming "quality" early learning centers?
2. What involvement/influence have you had on addressing the issue of south St. Petersburg having 7 of the worst performing elementaryschools in the State of Florida located within the African American community?
3. What have you identified as the three most pressing socio-economic issues in South St. Petersburg? What do you propose to do to address those issues?
4. Have you formerly endorsed the GOP nominee for President. If yes, why? If no, why?