[1] Board members Incumbents Sally Rue and Tom Wagner had decided not to run for reelection.
[4] Robert Starbard, Edith McHenry, Jan Marie Ferrell, and Stan Ridgeway were also candidates.
[1] She was in favor of a ballot measure to approve sale of $55.5 million in bonds in order to build a high school at Dimond Park for 1,500 students.
[8] Becker voted in favor of a new school policy making it optional for students to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
[9] Becker said that being seated for the Pledge of Allegiance is not respectful, although a policy requiring standing is not worth fighting in court.
[12] In January 2002, a teenager held a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" across the street from the 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay.
[14] The case, Morse v. Frederick, ended up going to the United States Supreme Court, and the Court held, 5–4, that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing, at or across the street from a school-supervised event, student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.