Election 2023: Vince Varallo For Hatboro-Horsham School Board

Candidates running in the Nov. 7 general election are providing background about themselves and their positions on the issues to voters in these profiles, which will run in Patch individually for each candidate.

HATBORO / HORSHAM TOWNSHIP, PA —Vince Varallo is running as a Republican for the Hatboro-Horsham School Board in the Nov. 7 general election.

Varallo is one of eight candidates vying for four school board seats along with Bill Daly, Denise DJ Schultz, Theresa E. Brown, Susan Hunsinger-Hoff, Janine Solley, David Brown, and Kellie Hall.

Biographical Information

Name: Vince Varallo

Age: 50

Town of residence: Horsham

Position sought: Hatboro-Horsham School Board Director

Are you an incumbent? No

What Towns Does Your Position Cover? Hatboro and Horsham

Party affiliation: Republican

Family: Married to Renee, a teacher's aide at Simmons Elementary. Three daughters ages 23, 21, and 8.

Education: Bachelors of Business Administration-Finance, Temple University

Occupation: Vice President of Engineering at a global software company.

1. What are the top issues currently facing your position and how do you plan to address them?

Quality of education, safety of our students, and transparency with parents are my top priorities. There is no "one-fix" to bring Hatboro-Horsham back to being a Top 10 school district. It will take changes in leadership to address the drop in ranking in the past three years. It will take changes in policies to ensure the safety of our students. It will take changes in attitude to be fully transparent with parents in the district.

2. Identify specific goals or ideas you have to enhance life in your position:

Improving education quality is an ongoing effort that requires collective action. By working together with teachers and parents, we can make a positive impact on the educational experience of students in our community. We need to go back to the basics and focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic and respect the line between what schools need to be teaching students and when parents need to be involved in the conversation.

3. What in your experience or background prepares you for election to office?

My background is in the business world and to be successful you need to have a vision that everyone can rally around. Hatboro-Horsham should be a Top 10 school district once again. We can do this by improving our test scores, fixing the policies to ensure the safety of our students, and listening to the parents who are frustrated with the current state of the schools. I think we can all agree that making Hatboro Horsham a Top 10 school district is an achievable goal.