CUSD Board of Education Election

The candidates for November's Claremont Unified School District Board of Education got together Thursday night at a candidate forum hosted by Active Claremont. The Daily Bulletin gave a rundown on the event.

There are three candidates vying for two seats.

By all accounts, it was a pretty pedestrian affair, with the candidates in agreement on most of the issues. There aren't any crises facing the district, and no one seems to want to touch the issue of another school construction bond.

(The $48.9 million from the 2001 Measure Y bond is all gone, partly through misspending by the Claremont 400-controlled CUSD board. As we've pointed out in the past, the district has spent all the money without completing some of the projects they said the money was urgently needed for. But we good Claremonters don't tal about that in polite company.)

So, the event will be, like most Claremont elections, the equivalent of a high school popularity contest. The three all seem likable, they seem to be in agreement on the issues, so take a look at the candidates' qualifications, which is the only factor separating them at this point.

We're getting that Carnac feeling again. (It's not too hard to figure out the dynamics of these things.) We'll post our forecast the day before the election. Let's see if we've got the right read on it.