Tuesday, November 6, 2012
See who prevailed in the tight race for the District 2 seat.
Update, 5:30 a.m., Wednesday Rebecca Smondrowski of Gaithersburg appears to have edged out Rockville resident Fred Evans in a close general election race for the District 2 seat on the county's Board of Education. Election night unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections showed Smondrowski with 117,294 votes (50.59 percent) and Evans, a former Montgomery County Public Schools principal, with 113,642 votes (49.02 percent). When combined with early voting numbers, this gave Smondrowski a total of 149,184 votes compared to Evans' 141,049--a lead of more than 8,000 votes. The unofficial results show board members Phil Kauffman and Christopher Barclay with enough votes to be reelected to their respective at-large and …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
In the Montgomery County Board of Education primary, Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots respectively for the At-Large ballot; Fred Evans and Rebecca Smondrowski took the top spots for District 2.
Although the Republican presidential primary bolstered Maryland into national headlines Tuesday, locally, Montgomery County voters also narrowed the field for the Board of Education’s general election in November. The unofficial results show that Phil Kauffman and Morris Panner beat out the two other candidates on the ballot to advance to the general election for the at-large seat. Kauffman received 60.3 percent of the vote, and Panner received 17 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Lou August, received 11.9 percent of the vote. "I am really honored to have received the support I did," Panner, a resident of the Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, told Chevy Chase Patch. "It is such an important time in our [c]ounty's history and a …
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Morris Panner, a father of four children—all enrolled in the county school system, is running for an at-large position on the county school board.
With four school-aged children, Somerset resident Morris Panner is a busy dad. He’s also a strong supporter of public education—for his children (all of whom attend Montgomery County Public Schools) and for the rest of the kids in Montgomery County. When an at-large spot on the county board of election opened up recently, Panner decided to run for it. “Public education is the glue of democracy,” Panner said in an email to Patch. “It ensures that all of us have a chance to make our lives better. Public education enables everyone to have a chance to learn and advance,” he added. “Serving on the school board would be one of the ways I could ensure we all had an enduring and quality public education system.” On April 3, Panner’s name will be …
Esther French
3:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thanks for the clarification, Theresa! Yes, voters should vote countywide for the Board of Education races. more ›