At a standing room only forum, Croton-Harmon BoE candidates tackle technology in our schools.
At a standing room only forum, Croton-Harmon BoE candidates tackle technology in our schools.
Publish Date: 2026-04-25 10:07:00
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Above: Board of Education candidates just before the forum began.
Last Thursday evening, a candidate forum for the five contenders in the Croton-Harmon Board of Education election on May 19—in which three trustee seats are up for grabs—drew a standing room only crowd to the Parish Hall of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Croton.
The event was hosted by the Croton Community Collective, a group of parents and teachers founded in June 2025 by local teacher Jill Anderson, and which now counts about 320 members. The group’s focus, on technology in the schools and especially the potential harms of cell phones and other screen devices to children of all ages, has made it sometimes controversial, and caused some defensiveness among district officials and teachers.
Nevertheless, all five candidates quickly accepted and showed up for the forum, which turned out to be intense, lively, and—in our view—at a high pedagogical and intellectual level.
Rather than provide a summary of the discussion and the responses to the six questions posed to the candidates—which had been condensed and collated from about 120 questions the CCC received from community members—we will leave it to those interested in the detailed conversation to view the video, which is now online and which we have embedded below.
However, the questions put to the candidates were at times as interesting as the answers, and so perhaps the best service we can perform is to put them here all in one place (with thanks to the CCC organizers for providing them.)
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What are your perceptions about the proliferation of EdTech in our schools? What do you see as its benefits and drawbacks?
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Across the K-12 experience, how much of students’ reading and writing do you believe should be analog vs digital? Does our district’s current practice match your vision, and if not, what would you do to bring that vision to fruition?
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