school boards

Organizers of the NO on One Campaign said they are seeking to use television and social media ads to reach 1 million Florida voters and use partnerships on college campuses to urge young voters to reject Amendment One on Nov. 5.

Florida has had nonpartisan school board elections since 1998. If the amendment that Roach sponsored passes in November, it will restrict No Party Affiliation voters from choosing candidates in primary elections.

Despite their claims that politics has no place in schools, the race between Leon County Seat 4 incumbent Laurie Lawson Cox and challenger Jeremy Rogers has been consumed by partisanship.

A proposed constitutional amendment requiring partisan elections for school board members on or after November 2026 is on this year's ballot. The measure would also apply to the primaries for the 2026 general election.

The “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty is looking to expand its efforts to elect school board candidates in 2024 and beyond, as well as get involved in other education races.

The proposal (HJR 31) will go on the 2024 ballot and, if approved by voters, would do away with a requirement that school-board candidates run without party labels

The 2023 Florida Legislative session continues to ramp up with the latest approval of four education bills in House, including those on partisan school board races and expanded sex ed ban

The state Constitution currently requires school-board races to be nonpartisan, but that could change under a proposed constitutional amendment.

More school board candidates are seeking office for political reasons than in decades past, and voters need to be savvy at the polls, says Florida Atlantic University associate professor Meredith Mountford.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is laying out more proposals to reshape education policy in Florida. At a press conference in Jacksonville, he voiced support for making school board elections partisan.

Of the 30 candidates endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis,19 won their races Aug. 23, and another six are headed to the general election in November.

Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli is helping fund some of Florida’s most competitive school board races.