East Somerville resident Tracey Leah Pratt is announcing her candidacy for Ward 1 School Committee. She is working on attaining the required 120 signatures from the East Somerville neighborhood before June 27.

Will MacArthur, a Harvard student, recent graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and candidate for School Committee, announced his senior staff today.

I know we do so much so well – and that we can do better. I will bring to the committee my skills and perspective as a former classroom teacher, a student of education policy and a communications and program management professional.

Cantabrigians should give their No. 1 vote for School Committee candidate Emily Dexter. She’s an experienced educator with high-level training from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and was an active city public school parent for more than 15 years.

In some ways, there is a sense with this term’s members of the School Committee that as a group they are becoming more effective. But what change has this produced? Look here to find out, and for links to challenger and incumbent profiles for Nov. 3 voting.

A Cambridge resident for 14 years, Weinstein has been a classroom teacher in a range of public school settings and a scholar of education, and now works in higher education. He is the only candidate who has served as a full-time public school classroom …

A School Committee member since 2008, Patty Nolan was born in Chicago, and raised there and Connecticut. Nolan attended Harvard University and the Yale School of Management and worked for several years for the consulting firm McKinsey until, as she sai …

Kathleen, a Mid-Cambridge resident for more than 20 years, has served one term on the School Committee. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Simmons and a dual master’s degree in social work and pastoral ministry from Boston Col …

Elechi was born in Tanzania, East Africa. He came to Cambridge when he was 4 and got his entire elementary and high school education in the Cambridge Public School System. He attended the then Joseph Maynard Elementary School, Mariah Baldwin School and …

Harding is a lifelong Cantabrigian and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School graduate with a degree from Fitchburg State College. In addition to his work on the School Committee, he runs the Men of Color Health Initiative, is a program consultant to the …