It’s election season, and 23 PUSD high school students are running for positions to serve on the district’s student board known as the Student Assembly/Council. This week, posters were added to bulletin boards on five high school campuses – Blair, Muir, PHS, Thurgood Marshall – and for the first time since PUSD initiated its Student Assembly/Council – the Center for Independent Study (CIS).
Some of the seats are uncontested while others have up to four candidates vying for one position. This week, posters were added to the main bulletin boards on all campuses and were distributed to the candidates.
PUSD’s Student Think Tank, the student leadership body that plans the elections and oversees the ballots, has set tight restrictions that the candidates must follow: they can only showcase one image on social media that takes viewers to PUSD’s website where all candidates are showcased, and they can only distribute their 25 posters on their campus and classroom walls. The printed posters were delivered to them this week.
The restrictions were set in order to prevent “popularity” voting, since some candidates have more social media followers than others. The election planning team also wants students who wish to learn about the candidates to visit PUSD’s webpage so they can understand that the positions are for district-wide representation – and are different from ASB.
Ballots will be distributed via teachers during the week of November 10, 2025 and the elected representatives will be sworn in at PUSD’s December 11 Board of Education meeting. This year’s elections is the third round since 2023-24 when the Student Think Tank’s leadership structure was approved by PUSD’s Board of Education.
