Candidate Forum Follow Up

Thanks to all who made Monday night's Citywide Parent Council forum with the school committee candidates such a great success. The Sun wrote a nice article about the forum (although the school committee article was buried on page 13 of the paper while the article on the city council forum - which was sponsored by the Sun - made page 1). One of the highlights of the CPC forum was the ability of folks watching the live broadcast at home to submit questions via email. Perhaps a dozen such questions were received during the broadcast. With additional questions from the studio audience and others that were submitted in advance, a wide range of issues were discussed by the candidates. If you missed the live broadcast, the forum will be shown repeatedly on Lowell cable TV channel 22 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:00 P.M. and on Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 A.M. Special thanks to the students and staff at the Lowell High Communications Academy whose technical expertise and spirit of cooperation would rival the most sophisticated commercial television operation. Thanks also to the computer staff at LHS for setting up the computer and email connection that allowed us to receive questions by email. Finally, if anyone has any suggestions on how we can improve our candidate forum for future elections, please let us know now while it's fresh in your mind.