How Closely Can District Employees Become Involved With Elections?
In the wake of the recent election, Patch examines local policy.
Another Minnetonka School Board election is over, but the campaign process itself had some candidates and community members wondering how involved, if at all, school district employees should become during the campaign season. An e-mail widely circulated by a special education paraprofessional who works for the district supported four “great, conservative, pro-family candidates.” Recipients of the Oct. 5 email were asked to remember the acronym “STEM”—the first letters of the four candidates’ last names. Some community members also alleged a district agenda to get voters to elect the “insiders”—incumbent candidates and other individuals who were previously involved with district organizations or boards. On Oct. 27, a notice regarding …
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