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Jones, Haas win seats on elected city school board

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 3, 2010 - Donna Jones and Bill Haas have won the two seats up for grabs on the elected board of the St. Louis Public Schools.

With 100 percent of Tuesday's vote counted, Jones led the field of six candidates with 35 percent; Haas had 23 percent.

Jones is currently vice president of the elected board, which meets regularly but has no power over the city schools, which are run by the three-member appointed Special Administrative Board. Haas, a former member of the school board who has run unsuccessfully for several other offices, won the seat vacated by Peter Downs.

Dale Singer began his career in professional journalism in 1969 by talking his way into a summer vacation replacement job at the now-defunct United Press International bureau in St. Louis; he later joined UPI full-time in 1972. Eight years later, he moved to the Post-Dispatch, where for the next 28-plus years he was a business reporter and editor, a Metro reporter specializing in education, assistant editor of the Editorial Page for 10 years and finally news editor of the newspaper's website. In September of 2008, he joined the staff of the Beacon, where he reported primarily on education. In addition to practicing journalism, Dale has been an adjunct professor at University College at Washington U. He and his wife live in west St. Louis County with their spoiled Bichon, Teddy. They have two adult daughters, who have followed them into the word business as a communications manager and a website editor, and three grandchildren. Dale reported for St. Louis Public Radio from 2013 to 2016.