Candidate filing ends for Wake County school board. See who wants to lead district.

Control of North Carolina’s largest school system will be at stake when five of the nine Wake County school board seats appear on the Nov. 5 ballot.

The two-week filing period ended in July with all five incumbent board members Lynn Edmonds, Sam Hershey, Lindsay Mahaffey, Wing Ng and Toshiba Rice filing to run this year. They’ll all face challenges this fall.

The board is officially nonpartisan, but it has a 7-2 Democratic majority. The board has opposed expansion of taxpayer-funded private school vouchers. It received implicit bias training that critics charge was Critical Race Theory. It has adopted the Biden Administration’s new Title IX guidelines.

The winning candidates will also likely appoint a successor to school board vice chair Monika Johnson-Hostler. She is heavily favored to win election to the state House in November.

But candidates will have a hard time getting much attention during the 2024 election cycle. They’ll appear on a ballot that also includes election of president, Congress, governor, Council of State and the General Assembly.




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