Robert Barr (R) - Board of Education District 2
Q: How important is it for the Board of Education to ensure children and families have access to healthy and affordable food? (1-5 scale)
A: 5
Q: How will you help combat rising food insecurity in Forsyth County and provide access to healthy, sustainable foods? (open-ended question)
A: The school board would work alongside other agencies and build collaborations to help our children.
Q: How important is it for WS/FCS to integrate local environmental issues like climate change into school curriculum? (1-5 scale)
A: 4
Q: As a Board of Education member, how will you ensure we are teaching about vital environmental issues like climate change? (open-ended question)
A: It can be a part of a strategic plan.
Q: How important is it for the Board of Education to ensure educational and administrative buildings are energy efficient? (1-5 scale)
A: 5
Q: As a Board of Education member, how will you promote renewable energy and energy efficiency within WS/FC schools? (open-ended question)
A: By giving direction to the superintendent to create plans, ideas, and recommendations when she meets with the associate superintendent over Buildings and Grounds which would later come to the board for discussion and a vote.
Q: How important is it for the Board of Education to ensure equitable and sustainable school transportation? (1-5 scale)
A: 5
Q: When elected, will you support allocating funds to update school buses to electric models? (yes/no)
A: Yes
Q: The City of Winston-Salem is currently working on a NCDOT-funded Safe Routes to School project to increase the number of students who bicycle or walk to, from, or at school. Do you support the Safe Routes to School project? (yes/no)
A: Yes
Q: How important is it for the Board of Education to support environmental justice curricula and actively address environmental racism in schools? (1-5 scale)
A: 5
Q: As a Board of Education member, how will you promote environmental justice within the WS/FC school system? (open-ended question)
A: Have an independent and non bias group assess and make recommendations to the board.
Q: How important is it that the Board of Education implement more recycling and composting opportunities in school buildings? (1-5 scale)
A: 5
Q: As a Board of Education member, what will you do to increase school wide recycling and composting? (open-ended question)
A: Create a marketing campaign that emphasizes the need for recycling and composting and how to practically accomplish it.