Four Wake school board members have won their seats months before Election Day
Four of the nine Wake County school board members will run unopposed for re-election this fall.
The month-long filing period for Wake County school board candidates ended Monday with 16 people filing for nine seats. School board chairman Keith Sutton, board vice chairwoman Roxie Cash and board members Christine Kushner and Jim Martin will not have an opponent listed on the Nov. 3 ballot, virtually guaranteeing them another two-year term.
The five other board members will have opposition. They’ll try to compete for voter attention on a crowded election ballot that includes presidential, congressional, state and other local races.
In District 1, board member Heather Scott is being challenged by Deborah Prickett for the Eastern Wake seat. Prickett was part of the Republican majority that shifted the district in a more conservative direction from 2009 to 2011 before Democrats regained the majority on the officially nonpartisan board.
In District 2, board member Monika Johnson-Hostler is being challenged by Gregory Hahn and Dorian Hamilton.
In District 7, board member Chris Heagarty is being opposed by Rachel Mills, who is campaigning on a platform of supporting school choice.
In District 8, board member Lindsay Mahaffey is running against Steve Bergstrom.
In District 9, board member Bill Fletcher is challenged by Daniel Madding and Karen Carter, who has been a vocal critic of the district’s use of the MVP math program for high schools.
People can only vote for the school board seat in the district where they live. Voters can go to https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ to look up their school board district.
Wake County is North Carolina’s largest school district with 161,907 students. Like other districts, Wake is facing issues such as how to reopen school this fall after having been closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
