The movement to make Forsyth County school board elecetions non-partisan is rising again:
….some did sign a petition calling for a local law that established partisan school-board elections in 1970 to be overturned. And volunteers collecting those signatures regarded each one as a small victory toward making Election Day less about party affiliation and more about education issues.
I don’t know why I find it interesting that the one school board member quoted in the article is a Democrat who’s against returning to nonpartisan elections:
Many school-board members are either opposed or uncertain about nonpartisan elections, and some community leaders wonder if nonpartisan elections would change school-board voting districts and result in an all-white school board.
Vic Johnson, a Democrat school-board member, has called the push for change “a bunch of junk” and has said “what we’re doing is the best thing for black people.”
