APS Candidate Forum rules

The APS School Board welcomes candidates to the APS Candidate Forum it will host next Tuesday, January 20, 2015.

It will be moderated by the League of Women Voters. 
The forum will be broadcast live on KANW 89.1 FM and 
also streamed live on KANW.com and APS.edu.

(The)... event will give students, parents, families, staff and community members an opportunity to hear your ideas and thoughts on issues. Here are some details about the forum:

1. Attendees from the community will provide the questions by writing them on cards and submitting them to the League of Women Voters volunteers.
2. Similar questions from attendees will be combined by the League of Women Voters.
3. There will be approximately ten questions asked over the course of the evening.
4. Depending on the complexity of the question, each candidate will have one minute or less to answer each question. The moderator from the League will tell you how much time you have for each question.
5. All candidates will be asked the same ten questions.
6. Each candidate will have one minute to give an opening statement.
7. Candidates within each district will draw lots prior to the forum to determine the order of response.
8. Candidates who arrive after 5:30 p.m. will not be allowed to participate in the forum.

Most people will arrive at the meeting believing that they are going to get to ask questions.  A careful reading of rules 1 and 2 reveals that is not the case.  Your question will be filtered through their standardization process.

Candidates are not going to be asked;

If elected, will you support community Roundtables at District and Community Relations committee meetings?

Unless a whole bunch of people get together to ask the very same question;

If elected, will you support community Roundtables at District and Community Relations committee meetings?

Make sure that when the League of Women Voters "combine" your questions into one, it reads;

If elected, will you support community Roundtables at District and Community Relations committee meetings?