Angel Valentin
Angel Valentin was an at-large representative on the Jersey City Public Schools school board in New Jersey. Valentin resigned from the board effective August 1, 2018, citing ongoing health issues.[1] He won his seat in the at-large general election on November 8, 2016. He was part of the Education Matters slate of candidates.
Valentin was formerly a member of the board after he was first appointed to a seat in 2002. Valentin won an unexpired one-year term on November 5, 2013, but did not seek re-election in 2014.
Biography
Valentin resides in Jersey City, New Jersey. Valentin graduated from Ferris High School and earned his bachelor's degree from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick in 1980.[2][3] He spent 12 years employed with the Jersey City Employment & Training Program as a grants manager.[4]
Elections
2016
Three of the nine seats on the Jersey City Public Schools Board of Education were up for at-large general election on November 8, 2016. No incumbents filed for re-election. Ten candidates filed in the race, including former candidate Gina Verdibello and former board member Angel Valentin. They faced eight newcomers: Asmaa Abdalla, Mussab Ali, Luis Fernandez, Kimberly Goycochea, Natalia Ioffe, Mark Rowan, Sudhan Thomas, and Matthew Schapiro. Valentin, Fernandez, and Thomas won in the general election. Three candidates filed in the race but withdrew their candidacy and did not appear on the ballot: Dominique Lee, DeJon Morris, and Jose Vasquez.[5][6]
Results
| Jersey City Public Schools, At-large General Election, 3-year terms, 2016 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Angel Valentin |
15.96% | 16,308 |
| Sudhan Thomas |
15.69% | 16,033 |
| Luis Fernandez |
13.24% | 13,534 |
| Gina Verdibello | 12.54% | 12,815 |
| Matthew Schapiro | 12.34% | 12,615 |
| Asmaa Abdalla | 11.01% | 11,252 |
| Mussab Ali | 6.15% | 6,290 |
| Natalia Ioffe | 5.27% | 5,389 |
| Mark Rowan | 4.14% | 4,231 |
| Kimberly Goycochea | 3.66% | 3,736 |
| Total Votes | 102,203 | |
| Source: NJ.com, "Hudson County real-time election results 2016," November 8, 2016 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available. | ||
Endorsements
Valentin was endorsed in the election by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (D), the Jersey City Police and Firefighter Department unions, and the Jersey City Education Association (JCEA).[7]
2013
Valentin challenged fellow incumbent Carol Lester for an at-large seat with a one-year term in the general election on November 5, 2013. Valentin was a member of the "Children First" slate of candidates, which included Gerald Lyons, Lorenzo Richardson and Gina Verdibello running for the three-year term seats. Lester was a member of a separate slate of candidates endorsed by Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and campaigned under the name "Candidates for Excellence," which included Micheline Amy, Jessica Daye and Ellen Simon running for the three-year term seats.
Results
| Jersey City Public Schools, At-large General Election, Unexpired term, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Angel Valentin Incumbent |
54.1% | 7,698 | |
| Nonpartisan | Carol Lester Incumbent | 45.7% | 6,506 | |
| Nonpartisan | Personal choice | 0.2% | 26 | |
| Total Votes | 14,230 | |||
| Source: Hudson County Clerk, "Official Election Results," November 14, 2013 | ||||
Funding
Valentin reported $9,250.00 in contributions and $9,096.00 in expenditures to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, which left his campaign with $154.00 on hand.[8]
Endorsements
Valentin did not receive any official endorsements for his campaign.
2010
| Jersey City Public Schools, At-large General Election, 3-year term, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Sterling Waterman |
21% | 7,369 | |
| Nonpartisan | Angel Valentin Incumbent |
19.5% | 6,851 | |
| Nonpartisan | Carol Lester |
11.5% | 4,036 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sebastian D'Amico | 10.5% | 3,680 | |
| Nonpartisan | Gerald McCann | 6.9% | 2,410 | |
| Nonpartisan | L. Terry Dehere | 6.8% | 2,380 | |
| Nonpartisan | Hiral Patel | 6.6% | 2,306 | |
| Nonpartisan | Anthony Sharperson | 3.2% | 1,118 | |
| Nonpartisan | Evelyn Farmer | 2.8% | 986 | |
| Nonpartisan | Kevin Armstrong | 2.1% | 735 | |
| Nonpartisan | Arthur Zigman | 2.1% | 722 | |
| Nonpartisan | Gerald Lyons | 2% | 720 | |
| Nonpartisan | June A. Mulqueen | 1.6% | 561 | |
| Nonpartisan | John R. Muniz | 1.4% | 485 | |
| Nonpartisan | Aura Ordonez | 1.3% | 460 | |
| Nonpartisan | Marimer Navarrete | 0.8% | 271 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.1% | 34 | |
| Total Votes | 35,124 | |||
| Source: Hudson County, New Jersey, "School Board Election Results," accessed October 31, 2013 | ||||
Campaign themes
2013
In an interview with the Jersey City Independent, Valentin advocated "vocational and trade programs, after-school extracurricular activities and peer-to-peer tutoring" along with greater "local control" of public education.[3]
What was at stake?
2013
There were four seats on the school board up for election on November 5, 2013. Incumbents Carol Lester and Angel Valentin filed to run against one another for the single at-large seat with an unexpired one-year term, while fellow incumbent Gerald Lyons competed against 11 challengers for three at-large seats with three-year terms. Incumbent Sterling Waterman did not file for re-election. Josephine Paige, Peter A. Basso, and Jay Cordero initially announced runs for the three-year term seats, but all three withdrew from the race before November.[9]
Alleged board meeting incivility
During a candidate forum held on October 24, 2013, Ellen Simon criticized Lorenzo Richardson for comments he made during a school board meeting in July 2012 shortly after the hiring of district superintendent Marcia V. Lyles. Richardson had denounced the controversial hiring decision and told the board, "My advice to all of you board members: Whoever has a gun to your head, let them pull the trigger. At least you will die with respect. OK? Cause if I was in that position, I’d tell them to pull the trigger." Simon argued that this was symbolic of the degree of incivility common at Jersey City school board meetings and that Richardson had spoken inappropriately. She added that, "This rhetoric has no place in a board of education. [...] And this kind of incivility is what has torn the board apart." Richardson defended his comments, insisting that he meant the board should ignore pressure from the New Jersey state government to hire Lyles, not that he meant they should commit suicide for their decision.[10]
Recent news
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See also
- Jersey City Public Schools, New Jersey
- Jersey City Public Schools elections (2016)
- Jersey City Public Schools elections (2013)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Hudson Reporter, "Valentin resigns from Jersey City school board," July 27, 2018
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Angel Valentin," accessed October 31, 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jersey City Independent, "Meet the Board of Education Candidates: Carol Lester, Gerald Lyons, Lorenzo Richardson, Angel Valentin," October 30, 2013
- ↑ The Jersey Journal, "Jersey City school board member, 3 others out at McGreevey's jobs program," October 7, 2013
- ↑ Mandy Gillip, "Phone conversation with district business administration office," August 2, 2016
- ↑ Hudson County View, "Newark BRICK Academy Schools CEO withdraws from Jersey City BOE race," September 7, 2016
- ↑ New Jersey, "Jersey City teachers union endorses three in November school board race," August 22, 2016
- ↑ New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, "Standard Search," accessed December 20, 2013
- ↑ The Jersey Journal, "Shake-ups in Jersey City school board race; three hopefuls drop out," October 15, 2013
- ↑ The Jersey Journal, "Testy exchanges dominate Jersey City school board candidate forum," October 25, 2013
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