Yolanda Franklin
Non-Partisan | Kansas
Candidate Profile
Liberal (Conditional)
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Yolanda Franklin
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2023
Election
General Municipal and School Board
Race
Lawrence Public Schools USD 497 Board of Education, At Large
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
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WORK & MILITARY
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AFFILIATIONS
Community Children Center, Board Member, Nothing Unique Organization
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
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POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
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Race
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Campaign Finance Reports
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Agree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Agree
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Neutral
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Disagree
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
I believe the government should be fully funding public education
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
School districts should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Strongly Agree
EDUCATION
What is the function of the local school board?
The function of the local school board should be to provide a bridge between the community and the State as well as making sure that the children are always in the forefront of the decision that are being made.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
The State as well as the local school board
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
When they are threatening and disrespectful towards the attendees at the board meetings
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
Mathematics, Science, Personal Finance, physical fitness, art & music language arts,
Which more closely matches your view of America's founding principles? A) Liberty and equality. B) Slavery and racism.
A
What does "equity in education" mean to you?
Equal learning for everyone
Written parental consent (opt-in) must be obtained before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL).
Strongly Agree
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Strongly Disagree
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
School boards are accountable to parents and taxpayers.
Strongly Agree
Do you believe students should have access to materials that graphically depict and describe sexual acts?
No
All print and digital material available or presented to students should be easily accessible for public review.
Agree
Do you believe print and digital material available or presented to students should be easily accessible for public review, including those without children enrolled in school.
Yes
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe there is one faith, one God, one baptism. Everyone has the constitutional right to worship and believe in whatever or whomever they choose.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Agree
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Strongly Agree
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
That responsibility should first start with the parents and whatever appropriate age they see for. The schools job is to just build off what the parents have already taught their children
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
Physical & emotional health outcomes, contraceptive methods, consent, abstinence, human & reproductive system.
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Disagree
I support allowing public middle and high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Strongly Agree
Biological males should be allowed in female locker rooms and bathrooms.
Disagree
No school official should be involved in the social or medical transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Strongly Agree
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
ABOUT YOU
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
No
A candidate's personal moral values are relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Strongly Agree
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Liberal
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
LJWorld interview
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
No
I voted in these primaries and general elections:
2014 Democratic Primary 2016 Democratic Primary 2018 Democratic Primary 2020 Democratic Primary 2020 General Election 2022 Democratic Primary 2022 General Election
2ND AMENDMENT
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Disagree
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
Vaccinations should be a recommendation and not a requirement for school enrollment. We don’t know what everyone’s religions or cultural beliefs are about vaccines, so we should not be requiring parents to have this done in order for their kids to enroll.
I support mask mandates.
Strongly Agree
All official open meetings should be live streamed, recorded, and have transcripts available online for public access.
Strongly Agree
All votes should be roll call votes and recorded in meeting minutes.
Strongly Agree
