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Journal Times staff Racine Area Manufacturers and Commerce, in cooperation with The Journal Times, sent a questionnaire to the five candidates on the ballot in Tuesday’s Racine Unified School Board election. In District 6, Auntavia Jackson and Carmella Venturini are competing to replace John Heckenlively, who is not seeking re-election. In District 5, Ally Docksey is challenging incumbent Jane Brewer Barbian. Incumbent Julie McKenna is running unopposed in District 4. Their answers to two of the six questions appear below. In your opinion, what does a successful school distri...

School climates, reducing school suspensions and decreasing student arrests. nikki, pardon the interruption, will you also apparently it is working because so far this year only 8% of the eighth graders have been suspended and we're already to february. >> what i'm going to say is i don't know that it's necessarily working. there has been a policy the last couple of years that's changed the criteria in which suspensions are given to students. and i do think that there should be positive reinforcement. but why aren't we rewarding students for good grades? why aren't we rewarding students for po...

Tolerance or foolishness, we need to take a pause. we need more interventions that are positive interventions and positive school climates and social workers as much as we need school safety agents. >> let's talk about those positive alternatives. we're asking people at home who are moved by this story as so many have told us they are already, to call and find out are there positive alternatives? are there programs specifically targeting at risk youth? do you think there's enough of that? >> i'm thrilled you are doing this. i hope that every single person who tunes in will respond with an idea...