{"id":315605,"date":"2026-10-27T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315605\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:26:11","slug":"incumbents-returned-to-public-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315605\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbents returned to public school board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters in Brantford have returned all four incumbent Grand Erie District School Board trustees,  including Carol Ann Sloat to the public school board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sloat, who has clashed with the public school board\u2019s administration in recent years, received 10,452 votes or 19.9 per cent of the ballots cast to return to the Grand Erie board. She was followed by Susan Gibson with 10,070 votes (19.1 per cent), Greg Anderson, 9,743 votes (18.5 per cent) and John Bradford, 8,653 (16.4 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other candidates included John Steinberg 5,282 (10 per cent), Dale Renout 4,949 (9.4 per cent) and Naser Hamed, 3,470 (6.6 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Brant County, Lorraine DeJong and Rita Collver were elected to the public board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeJong received 3,601 votes (31.3 per cent) while Collver got 3,220 (28 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Waldschmidt finished third with 3,078 votes (26.7 per cent) follow by Jason Gemmill with 1,609 (14 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City voters also elected Wenda Allicock and Birkin James Culp to the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board. Allicock received 1,825 votes (28.7 per cent) while Culp received 1,587 (25 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stan Verschoore finished third with 1,497 votes (23.6 per cent) while Eryn Ritter finished fourth with 1,550 votes (22.7 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Miller was acclaimed to represent Brant County of the Catholic district school board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Brantford have returned all four incumbent Grand Erie District School Board trustees, including Carol Ann Sloat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[128699,128700,128701,128702,136,138,137],"class_list":["post-315605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-128699","tag-brantford-expositor","tag-category-brantford-regional-news","tag-category-local-politics","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}