1. In your own terms, how would you define the role of the School Board?  What are your responsibilities as a member?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

2. The current Caddo Schools’ Operating Budget is over $490M. What is your experience with understanding and working with budgets and what experience do you have that prepares you to oversee the operation of an organization of this size?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

3. Which Caddo Parish Schools programs or initiatives do you believe are working well and producing results?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

4. Which Caddo Parish Schools programs or initiatives do you believe need to be updated or changed?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

5. One of the greatest challenges facing the state are the unfunded pension liabilities.  While the state has primary control over the retirement portion, the medical portion is under the control of the district.  What steps do you believe the district needs to undertake to address this issue, both long and short term?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

6. For the past decade, the student population of CPPS has been declining. While there have been a number of school closures, the number and location of schools no longer match the demographics of the district.  What steps do you believe the school system should take to address these changes?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

7. While each Board Member represents a specific district, many of the challenges facing the CPPS are district-wide.  How will you balance your responsibility to your District with your responsibility to CPPS as a whole – can you give us an example where a CPPS priority might outweigh a District one?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

8. What two priorities will you have as a School Board member and how will you work collaboratively with other Board members to integrate these priorities into the work of the Board?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |

9.  Is there anything you would like to address that we have not yet covered?
| John L. Albritton | Dottie H. Bell | Darrin Dixon | Jasmine R. Green | Rodney Jiles | Orlisa Nash Johnson | Katie McLain | ‘Mike’ Morales | Kisha Gayle Newsom | Barbara Johnson Simpson | Jessica Yeates |