Will opponents of Davie County’s $37 million school bond referendum use Superintendent Steve Lane’s DWI charge as a campaign issue?
The anti-bond group Davie Citizens for Responsible Government says no, as do bond supporters.
But John Dornan, the executive director of N.C. Public School Forum, a nonpartisan advocacy group, said that bond opponents will use issues not directly related to school construction to raise doubts among voters about their school system.
“The tragedy is all this is doing is taking attention away from kids and schools,” he said.
But the politics surrounding local education have a way of getting personal. Just ask Guilford County Schools Superintendent Terry Grier.
But here’s the big question: Why didn’t the Davie County Board of Education make the situation public when it “privately” dealt with Lane back in the fall?
