Greater Essex County District School Board - Compare Candidates

		incumbent	incumbent
	Salena Hamilton	Cathy Cooke	Gale Simko-Hatfield	Luca Lazarus

CLC Rating	Pro-parental rights	position unknown	position unknown	Unknown

RATING COMMENTS:	Gave perfect answers to CLC's 2026 public school trustee ... <More> See Full Profile	Has not responded to CLC's 2026 election survey, so posit... <More> See Full Profile	Has not responded to CLC's 2026 election survey, so posit... <More> See Full Profile	<More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER	ANSWER
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1. Do you agree that parents, not the state, have the inherent right of primacy in education of children?	yes	no response	no response	no contact info
2. Will you defend the inherent right of parents to be notified in advance regarding any lesson, speaker or presentation involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	yes	no response	no response	no contact info
3. Do you agree that parents should have the right to withdraw their children from classroom lessons or presentations involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	yes	no response	no response	no contact info


	May Lyman	Michael Serdan

CLC Rating	Caution	Unknown

RATING COMMENTS:	May Lyman flatly refused to respond our CLC’s 2026 publ... <More> See Full Profile	<More> See Full Profile
SURVEY QUESTION	ANSWER	ANSWER
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1. Do you agree that parents, not the state, have the inherent right of primacy in education of children?	refused to answer	no response
2. Will you defend the inherent right of parents to be notified in advance regarding any lesson, speaker or presentation involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	refused to answer	no response
3. Do you agree that parents should have the right to withdraw their children from classroom lessons or presentations involving controversial issues such as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and gender ideology?	refused to answer	no response

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