Oklahoma bill proposing changing school board elections draws opposition

 
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT mmcnutt@opubco.com
Published: January 26, 2012

Changing the date of school board elections from February to November would allow partisan politics to creep into the process, the head of a state school boards group said Wednesday.

“The system we have keeps partisan politics out of school board elections, as they should be,” said Jeff Mills , executive director of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association . “When you move them to a general election or ...


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