Lengthy terms by local school board members like Steve Gallon III and Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall will be a thing of the past, thanks to the passage of a bill headed to
Indiana is keeping its nonpartisan school board elections — for now. But a new law starts candidate filing two months earlier to give voters more time to learn about them.
I learned something from my colleague Steve Harrison last week: Partisan school board elections are more common in North Carolina than partisan city council races. Based on my experience in Mecklenburg County I had assumed the opposite was true.