BETHLEHEM Eight candidates are vying for three seats on Bethlehem’s seven-member school board in a race not unusually crowded for the largely suburban district.
doesn’t like the direction of the current school board, so he’s running for one of three seats in the May 17 election. Kawczak would listen to taxpayers, he says of what he would bring to the board.
The current budget crises highlights what is wrong with the public education system, said , and he’s making his first run for the school board because “something needs to be done.”
is running to keep his seat on the school board because he’d like to build programs when the economy turns around. He started his first term on the board three years ago, just as the recession was beginning.