The Voter Interests Project continues our Candidate Interviews 2023 series with interviews of Oak Harbor School District Director, Position 2. We invited Jessica Aws and Karen Lesetmoe to do interviews.
Jessica Aws
The League of Women Voters of Whidbey Island (LWVWI) live-streamed a candidate forum via YouTube on Wed., Oct. 18, 2023. The forum featured candidates for North Whidbey Fire and Rescue, Oak Harbor Mayor and City Council, and the Oak Harbor School District.
The Voter Interests Project tracks the candidate filings for offices in Island County for the November 2023 elections. Updated daily.
Below is a list of the Island County elected officials whose positions are on the ballot in 2023.
The Oak Harbor School Board has decided to table a gender policy revision that would allow counselors to tell parents that their child is transgender, even if the student does not want them to.
Several Oak Harbor parents voiced their opinions on a proposed policy revision for the Oak Harbor School District that would allow counselors to tell parents that their child is transgender, even if the student does not want them to.
The Oak Harbor School District board of directors are considering a policy change that would permit counselors to inform parents about their children’s transgender or “gender-expansive” status.
In the wake of John Diamond’s resignation, community members spoke in support of Jessica Thompson to fill his seat. Thompson lost narrowly to Diamond last fall.