Republican candidate Chuck Smith today released a list of 12 “Third District Churches Backing Chuck Smith”, a list which includes 7th District School Board representative Don Coleman and Bishop Darryl F. Husband of Mount Olivet Church. It turns out, though, that at least Coleman has not endorsed Smith and says that he is “offended” by [...]
A message from Donald Coleman, 7th District School Board representative: Richmond Public Schools is pleased to bring The Choice campaign to the 6th & 7th Districts on Saturday, September 18, 2010. Beginning at 10 a.m. – noon, the roll out of this campaign will kickoff at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School with students, staff, [...]
A message from 7th District School Board representative Donald Coleman: Greetings! Richmond Public Schools, Councilwoman Cynthia Newbille and I, in collaboration with Civic Associations and other community entities here in the East End, are organizing a School Supply give-away on Saturday, August 28th at 10am to 12 noon at the East End Family Resource Center [...]
A message from Don Coleman, 7th District School Board Member, on the Building a Better Richmond Martin Luther King (MLK) Middle School Project Community Input Meeting set for Thursday, April 29th, from 6-8PM at MLK Middle School: The purpose of this meeting is to provide a Building A Better Richmond status update and to drill [...]
School Board 7th District member Don Coleman sent out his email newsletter for June today, with a wrap-up of recent issues and activities, including his visit to Milwaukee to study successes of Violence Free Zones, Franklin Military now accepting applications for 6th graders for 2009-2010, the playground fire at George Mason, and spotlight on Fairfield [...]
School Board 7th District member Don Coleman sent out his first monthly email newsletter today, with an introduction on where he is coming from, his email address and phone number, and a wrap-up on 7th District issues, including expansion at Franklin Military, the upcoming June 29 Open House at Armstrong, and the dramatic rise in [...]
About 60 people turned out for today’s 7th District Meeting hosted by interim City Council 7th District representative Betty Squire at the Peter Paul Development Center. Speakers included Mayor Dwight Jones, RPS Superintendent Brandon, a representative from the Richmond Police Department, Delegate Jennifer McClellan, and School Board 7th District representative Don Coleman.
The 2009-2013 RPS School Board members were sworn-in yesterday in ceremony at City Hall. The new board has four returning and five freshman members, including the new 7th District School Board member Don Coleman. [via]
The city website has a map of all of the voter precincts and a breakdown of the recent vote by precinct. Interesting numbers if you’re into that kind of thing…
As a follow-up to our mayoral poll back in August, here are the results of a (certainly very unscientific) poll of the support for each of the 3 school board candidates…
Bellevue Elementary and the Church Hill Association hosted a sparsely attended forum for the 7th District School Board candidates this evening. A more well-attended forum that included school board, council, and mayoral candidates took place immediately following at the Powatan Community Center in Fulton.
I sat down on July 23rd with Don Coleman, candidate for the 7th District School Board seat, and Brandon Jaycox, Coleman’s campaign manager, for an interview at Buzzy’s.
From the Coleman for School Board folks: We want to hear from you! Please join us at Capt Buzzy’s Friday 27th from 6:00pm-7:30pm to have your voice heard regarding 7th District Schools, the last year’s school board and what you want from your school board in the future. [...] Don Coleman will be there to [...]
Now there are three: An email from Don Coleman says that he is “strongly considering and have begun the process that will be official on June 10th” to run again for the 7th District School Board seat. Keith West beat Coleman by 41 votes in the 2006 contest.
For what it is worth, I’m stepping up for Don Coleman for the school board. I’ve been going back and forth on this, and I’ve come down on the side of speaking my piece.
