After being asked by several community members, Ngoc Vuong said he decided to run for the Wichita school board because he has “unfinished work.” Vuong, who has filed to run for the District 3 seat, is in the community psychology doctoral program at Wichita State, making him one of two WSU students to run this.
By a margin of about 2-to-1, Wichita school district voters opted to ditch the current hybrid voting system, which has been in place since 1994. Beginning next year, Wichita school board members will be elected in a fashion similar to city, county and state representatives.
In a special edition of The Range, we talk about what those two years have been like for the parents of a baby born during the pandemic and for a high school senior.