The San Antonio Record’s much-lauded Citizen Overview is a preferred amongst visitors, a staple of our public involvement initiatives and a labor of love for our team.
Throughout the years, it’s expanded and transformed in several methods to much better assistance San Antonians browse complicated political elections.
Today, we could not be prouder of this most recent development: We have actually prolonged the 2025 Citizen Overview further than ever before down the tally to profile 38 college board prospects and 3 significant bond political elections citizens will certainly evaluate in on May 3.
We discovered at an early stage when producing overviews such as this that the accounts of lesser-known prospects can be equally as preferred as those running in top-level races, merely due to the fact that there aren’t many areas citizens trying to find details can most likely to review them.
Last year we additionally found just how much our visitors appreciate what some could typically take into consideration lower-interest political elections like the Bexar Assessment Area board seats, and particularly, the off-year North East ISD college board races.
Recognizing what a solution the Citizen Overview is to visitors, and just how much they appreciate public education and learning, this year our newsroom wished to prolong our regular citizen overview to consist of prospects competing college board in 7 Bexar County-area independent college areas– a significant financial investment of time and sources for our tiny team.
The overview function accounts of races in San Antonio ISD, Northside ISD, Alamo Levels ISD, Comal ISD, Judson ISD, Medina Valley ISD and Southwest ISD.
We additionally assembled educational overviews for the bond political elections taking place in the Alamo Colleges Area, Floresville ISD and East Central ISD. This was especially essential help our detached newsroom, taking into consideration just how political college bonds have actually come to be in recent times.
Education press reporter Xochilt Garcia located call details for the several prospects and hard-to-find information regarding ballot places in college areas that go across region lines, which was an initiation rite for among the most recent participants of our enthusiastic newsroom.
Andrea Drusch, that authored most of our 2025 Citizen Overview, assisted guide the task and obtain it over the goal, with some small preparation and survey assistance from our modifying group.
We recognize that in a political election period, determining what to anticipate when you reach the tally box can be an uphill struggle.
In 2025, we have actually done our ideal to provide visitors a clear image of what details they will certainly and will not have, and motivate everybody to intend in advance when they most likely to elect. Paper notes are allowed the ballot cubicle, while phones and tablet computers are not.
If you’re a Bexar Region citizen, I motivate you to invest time with the education and learning web pages of our overview as you prepare your ballot. Early electing starts April 22.
For much of these college board races, the victor on political election day will certainly take the race– unlike in the mayoral and Common council races, which might include drainages. All that to claim, your ballot this May 3 political election will certainly be additional essential!
To sight our complete 2025 Citizen Overview, visit this site.
