Brad Young
Brad W. Young was an at-large member of the Frederick County Board of Education in Maryland. He assumed office on December 1, 2010. He left office on December 6, 2022.
Young ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the Frederick County Board of Education in Maryland. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Biography
Young received an associate degree in business from Frederick Community College, a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland-College Park, and a master's degree in business from Frostburg State University. Young has worked as a certified financial planner and has been associated with the Maryland Financial Planning, serving president.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Frederick County Board of Education At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Frederick County Board of Education At-large on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad W. Young (Nonpartisan) | 17.7 | 50,179 |
| ✔ |  | Karen Yoho (Nonpartisan) | 13.8 | 39,242 |
| ✔ |  | Liz Barrett (Nonpartisan) | 13.4 | 38,146 |
| ✔ |  | Jay Mason (Nonpartisan) | 13.4 | 37,971 |
 | April Fleming Miller (Nonpartisan)  | 12.6 | 35,938 | |
 | Cindy Rose (Nonpartisan) | 11.2 | 31,968 | |
 | Camden Raynor (Nonpartisan) | 9.9 | 28,191 | |
 | Kim Williams (Nonpartisan) | 7.5 | 21,321 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 1,206 | ||
| Total votes: 284,162 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Frederick County Board of Education At-large (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the primary for Frederick County Board of Education At-large on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad W. Young (Nonpartisan) | 17.2 | 19,413 |
| ✔ | | Karen Yoho (Nonpartisan) | 11.7 | 13,176 |
| ✔ | | Jay Mason (Nonpartisan) | 11.5 | 12,932 |
| ✔ | | Liz Barrett (Nonpartisan) | 11.0 | 12,396 |
| ✔ | | April Fleming Miller (Nonpartisan) | 9.5 | 10,703 |
| ✔ | | Cindy Rose (Nonpartisan) | 8.7 | 9,770 |
| ✔ | | Camden Raynor (Nonpartisan) | 8.1 | 9,172 |
| ✔ | | Kim Williams (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 5,094 |
 | Marie Fischer-Wyrick (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 5,069 | |
| Edison Joseph Hatter (Nonpartisan) | 3.7 | 4,132 | |
 | Masai Troutman (Nonpartisan) | 3.4 | 3,837 | |
 | Jonah Seth Eisenberg (Nonpartisan) | 3.4 | 3,805 | |
| Chaz Packan (Nonpartisan) | 3.0 | 3,370 | |
| Total votes: 112,869 | |||
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2014
The June 24, 2014, primary ballot included incumbents Colleen E. Cusimano, April Fleming Miller and Brad W. Young as well as challengers Liz Barrett, Jonathan C. Carothers, Mike Ferrell, Millicent Hall, Kenneth Kerr and Richard S. Vallaster III. Board member Jean A. Smith did not file for re-election. All of the primary candidates except Carothers faced off in the general election on November 4, 2014.
Incumbents Brad W. Young and Colleen E. Cusimano, along with newcomers Liz Barrett and Kenneth Kerr, won the general election.
Results
General
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Liz Barrett |
15.5% | 35,673 | |
| Nonpartisan | Brad W. Young Incumbent |
14.2% | 32,632 | |
| Nonpartisan | Colleen E. Cusimano Incumbent |
13.6% | 31,147 | |
| Nonpartisan | April Fleming Miller Incumbent |
12.9% | 29,700 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ken Kerr | 12.9% | 29,657 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mike Ferrell | 11.4% | 26,104 | |
| Nonpartisan | Millicent Hall | 10.4% | 23,984 | |
| Nonpartisan | Richard S. Vallaster III | 8.9% | 20,470 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in | 0.2% | 422 | |
| Total Votes | 229,789 | |||
| Source: Frederick County Board of Elections, "2014 Gubernatorial General Election Results," accessed December 20, 2014 | ||||
Primary
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Liz Barrett |
15.3% | 16,235 | |
| Nonpartisan | Brad W. Young Incumbent |
14.9% | 15,830 | |
| Nonpartisan | Colleen E. Cusimano Incumbent |
12.9% | 13,765 | |
| Nonpartisan | April Fleming Miller Incumbent |
12.3% | 13,044 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ken Kerr |
12.2% | 12,942 | |
| Nonpartisan | Millicent Hall |
9.5% | 10,131 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mike Ferrell |
8.7% | 9,250 | |
| Nonpartisan | Richard S. Vallaster III |
8.4% | 8,967 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jonathan C. Carothers | 5.9% | 6,270 | |
| Total Votes | 106,434 | |||
| Source: Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election results for Frederick County," July 16, 2014 | ||||
Funding
Young reported $2,300.00 in contributions and $2,252.50 in expenditures to the Maryland State Board of Elections, leaving his campaign with $3,850.88 on hand as of June 9, 2014. This total includes amounts from previous reporting periods.[2]
Endorsements
Yong had not received any official endorsements in this election as of May 23, 2014.
2010
| Frederick County Public Schools, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Brad W. Young |
21.3% | 43,414 | |
| Nonpartisan | James C. Reeder, Jr. |
15.1% | 30,780 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jean A. Smith |
12.5% | 25,470 | |
| Nonpartisan | April Fleming Miller |
11.5% | 23,352 | |
| Nonpartisan | Colleen E. Cusimano | 11.4% | 23,177 | |
| Nonpartisan | Janice Spiegel | 10.4% | 21,055 | |
| Nonpartisan | Aubrey Harbaugh | 8.9% | 18,032 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sarah McAleavy | 8.6% | 17,525 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.3% | 542 | |
| Total Votes | 203,347 | |||
| Source: Maryland State Board of Elections, "Official 2010 Gubernatorial General Election results for Frederick County," accessed June 9, 2014 | ||||
Campaign themes
2014
Young explained his themes for the 2014 race on his campaign website:
| “ |
Every student will learn in an intellectually challenging environment, prepared as a life-long learner to excel in college, further study and the workplace. This is a very critical time in the history of our school system. With Common Core being mandated by the Federal government, how we implement and respond to this mandate as a school system will determine our future success. I adamantly oppose the Federal government and the state government mandating curriculum on us as a local school system. That being said, everything in the common core standards is not bad. Much of what is listed in common core matches the direction in which our system was already in the process of implementing. We are a great system for a reason! We need to continue to strengthen and support our Career and Technology Center, CTC. The CTC prepares many of our students to go onto college in specific areas; it also provides employable job skills to many who do not have college as a goal or an option. I have been a huge advocate and supporter of CTC over the past 25 years. I served 15 years on the advisory Board for the Academy of Finance. Every student will learn in a safe, caring and engaging environment, and be prepared to participate as a productive citizen and contributing member of our global society. The safety of our students and staff is always at the top of my list for our school system. In my four years on the Board of Education, I have worked closely with the Sheriff and other law enforcement officials to make sure that our schools are as safe as possible. I am in our schools on a regular basis and work with students on an on-going basis. I strongly believe that our students are a byproduct of their home life and the environment in which they are educated. I work with our youth through coaching and teaching to help them to see their value as individuals and as a part of our society. This is vastly important to me. All employees will be highly qualified for their jobs, motivated and effective at work, and valued and respected by their students and community. We have great employees at FCPS. We are ranked as a great school system because of our employees and what they are able to do for our students educationally. We need to continue to make sure that our employees have the skills and support to continue that superiority in the future. I highly value and respect every employee in our school system. These past years have presented incredibly tough economic times. Unfortunately, it has been tough for our school system as well as others to make new financial commitments. FCPS has been able to give raises the past 2 years and has maintained its great employee benefit programs, while not having any employee lose their job due to layoffs. Would it be great to do more? Absolutely. But considering the economic environment, I would say that we have done the best we can under the circumstances. Every family will have access to the programs and services needed for their children to enter school ready to learn. Access is a very important issue for me. We have a very diverse county and the needs within different parts of the county are drastically different. We have done a lot to provide additional support to those schools that have kids in poverty and kids that do not speak English as their primary language. These schools need that additional support but we cannot neglect the needs of our other schools while doing so. We need to continue to explore grants and other options to help fund these incredibly expensive needs. All sectors of the community will be engaged in the education of our children. Community involvement is not only desired, but in my opinion essential to the continued success of our school system. One of the main reasons I ran for the board four years ago was because I did not believe the community was being sufficiently engaged in the running of our school system. I will use TERC math as a prime example of how the system ignored the community, and let TERC math become the primary resource for the teaching of math when the community strongly felt it was wrong. I voted to end TERC math at my very first meeting as a board member. Our new Superintendent has done a great job in trying to get the community engaged in the process of implementing new programs and ideas in our system. I pledge to continue that effort. I also have been responsive to parents and students when they have contacted me. I am easily accessible and always responsive. Every division and school will have sufficient resources and will manage those resources in a publicly accountable and cost-effective manner. Our school system has a budget that is over half a billion dollars! We have a responsibility to manage this money in an efficient manner, and to have the budget be transparent to the public. My background and experiences are in finance and I have worked hard to get our budget to be more transparent and to be more honest. When I got on the board the budget had many blatant deficiencies. Previous boards had not chosen to fund OPEB, (other post-employment benefits), when I joined the board, we committed and budgeted 14.3 million dollars towards our obligation. We made the same contribution my second year, but last year the board voted to gut that contribution and lowered it to $3 million. This is simply unacceptable and irresponsible! We are “kicking the can” to future students and employees and that is just not fair! The budget also had $0 allocated for technology, how could that be? We have put that line item back in the budget although it is not yet at the level it should be, I will work to get it there. In short terms, when I got on the board there was a lot of smoke and mirrors used to hide things in the budget. I have worked to change that. We have a great CFO now and she has done a outstanding job to make the budget more transparent and honest! |
” |
| —Brad Young's campaign website, (2014) | ||
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Frederick County Public Schools, "Brad W. Young," June 18, 2012
- ↑ Maryland Campaign Reporting Information System, "View Filed Reports," accessed May 23, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Friends of Brad W. Young, "Issues," accessed June 9, 2014
| Frederick County Public Schools elections in 2018 | |
| Frederick County, Maryland | |
| Election date: | Primary Election: June 26, 2018 • General Election: November 6, 2018 |
| Candidates: | At-large: • Incumbent, Liz Barrett • Incumbent, April Fleming Miller • Incumbent, Brad Young • Jonah Seth Eisenberg • Marie Fischer-Wyrick • Edison Joseph Hatter • Jay Mason • Chaz Packan • Camden Raynor • Cindy Rose • Masai Troutman • Kim Williams • Karen Yoho |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
