IN PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Students plan KUSD School Board candidates forum, weigh in on why they should be heard
On March 29, students from five Kenosha Unified high schools will play host to a unique forum in which they will ask six School Board candidates why they feel they're best suited for the job.
The 11-member youth town hall cohort of the Kenosha non-profit Building Our Futures has been meeting over the last several weeks, planning the student-led forum that will take place from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Lincoln Middle School Auditorium, 6729 18th Ave. The cohort consists of students from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
PLANNING THE YOUTH-LED CANDIDATES' FORUM 3-2-22
STUDENT-LED FORUM Kayla Mitchell with DaRon Green
Kayla Mitchell offers a suggestion as DaRon Green turns around to listen during a Wednesday planning session for the upcoming student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Marciara Fuller
Marciara Fuller talks about the importance of youth voices being heard during a planning session for the upcoming student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Ariana Ervin
Ervin
STUDENT-LED FORUM Benjamin Rothove
Benjamin Rothove talks about the types of issues students would like Kenosha Unified School Board candidates to address, everything from curriculum to the quality of school lunches, as members of the youth town hall cohort start formulating questions for the March 29 forum they are leading. Behind him, is Leo Ruffolo. Both are members of an 11-member forum planning group, which met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM DaRon Green
DaRon Green talks about some of the questions he’d like addressed, including Kenosha Unified’s dress code that he said often targets Black students, during the student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates on March 29.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Aniyah Ervin
Aniyah Ervin said the student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates gives youth a voice and control over the format without the hectic environment of a board meeting. The forum planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM with facilitator Brandon Morris
Brandon Morris, manager for community engagement and college readiness with Building Our Future, offers a few suggestions during planning meeting on Wednesday for the March 29 student-led town hall-style Kenosha Unified School Board forum to be held at Lincoln Middle School.The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Benjamin Rothove, front, leads a discussion Wednesday to decide the format of the March 29 student-led town hall-style forum at Lincoln Middle School that the youth cohort is playing host to for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Benjamin Rothove, standing in front, leads a discussion to decide the format of the March 29 student-led town hall-style forum at Lincoln Middle School that the youth cohort is playing host to for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Members of the youth town hall cohort of Building Our Future, a Kenosha non-profit with a mission to insure the success of children, meet Wednesday, March 2, 2022, to plan the March 29 student-led KUSD School Board candidate forum. The forum will be held in the Lincoln Middle School Auditorium.
PLANNING THE YOUTH-LED CANDIDATES' FORUM 3-2-22
STUDENT-LED FORUM Kayla Mitchell with DaRon Green
Kayla Mitchell offers a suggestion as DaRon Green turns around to listen during a Wednesday planning session for the upcoming student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Marciara Fuller
Marciara Fuller talks about the importance of youth voices being heard during a planning session for the upcoming student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Ariana Ervin
Ervin
STUDENT-LED FORUM Benjamin Rothove
Benjamin Rothove talks about the types of issues students would like Kenosha Unified School Board candidates to address, everything from curriculum to the quality of school lunches, as members of the youth town hall cohort start formulating questions for the March 29 forum they are leading. Behind him, is Leo Ruffolo. Both are members of an 11-member forum planning group, which met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM DaRon Green
DaRon Green talks about some of the questions he’d like addressed, including Kenosha Unified’s dress code that he said often targets Black students, during the student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates on March 29.
STUDENT-LED FORUM Aniyah Ervin
Aniyah Ervin said the student-led forum for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates gives youth a voice and control over the format without the hectic environment of a board meeting. The forum planning group met at the Kenosha Area Business Alliance training center on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
STUDENT-LED FORUM with facilitator Brandon Morris
Brandon Morris, manager for community engagement and college readiness with Building Our Future, offers a few suggestions during planning meeting on Wednesday for the March 29 student-led town hall-style Kenosha Unified School Board forum to be held at Lincoln Middle School.The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Benjamin Rothove, front, leads a discussion Wednesday to decide the format of the March 29 student-led town hall-style forum at Lincoln Middle School that the youth cohort is playing host to for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Benjamin Rothove, standing in front, leads a discussion to decide the format of the March 29 student-led town hall-style forum at Lincoln Middle School that the youth cohort is playing host to for Kenosha Unified School Board candidates. The planning group consists of 11 students selected to coordinate the forum and who are from Bradford and Tremper high schools, Indian Trail High School and Academy and Harborside and LakeView Technology academies.
STUDENT-LED FORUM planning meeting
Members of the youth town hall cohort of Building Our Future, a Kenosha non-profit with a mission to insure the success of children, meet Wednesday, March 2, 2022, to plan the March 29 student-led KUSD School Board candidate forum. The forum will be held in the Lincoln Middle School Auditorium.
Kenosha police officers took a 36-year-old woman into custody after she was accused of pointing a gun at a man following an argument in the parking lot of Mahone Middle School Monday afternoon.
The father of a former Lincoln Middle School student, injured when an off-duty Kenosha Police officer reportedly knelt on her neck following a fight with another student in the school’s cafeteria, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Kenosha Unified and the officer.
Voters in the Kenosha Unified School District returned a long-time incumbent and elected two newcomers to the School Board on Tuesday night.
