In the Greater Victoria School District, the region’s largest with about 20,000 students, 30 candidates — up from 13 in the last election — are vying for nine seats on the board
There are two crowded races shaping up in the capital region’s four school-board elections, with everything from a daughter looking to succeed her mother in the Sooke district to a former Saanich district superintendent in the mix for a seat as a trustee.
Trustees are elected at-large from the seven municipalities that make up the district, which means they have to campaign in a large area, Axford said. “It’s quite a deal for the candidates to even advertise in that many places.” Another impetus for the large number of trustee hopefuls is backlash against proposed cuts to school music programs in the past two years, which “galvanized” a lot of people, said Humphreys, who is also the executive director of BCEdAccess — a volunteer-run group that works with families of students with disabilities and complex learning needs.
In Sooke, meanwhile, one of the fastest-growing districts in the province, 14 people are running to fill seven spots. The Saanich district, which is divided into electoral zones, has five of its seven seats already filled by acclamation. The open seat, for the North Saanich zone, is being contested by Keven Elder, who served as district superintendent from 2005 to 2017, incumbent Elsie McMurphy and accountant/governance advisor Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland.
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