Voters in the Cincinnati Public School District will have two school board elections on the ballot for Tuesday's election.
First, there is a six-candidate race for three seats on the seven-member board of elections.
Secondly, there is a three-candidate race for the unexpired term of Ericka Copeland-Dansby, who resigned from the board earlier this year.
In the six-candidate race, current board president Carolyn Jones, Eve Bolton and Ozie Davis III are the incumbents, while Ben Lindy, Heather M. Couch and Marlena Brookfield make up the field of challengers.
Don't bother looking for Davis' name on the ballot – it won't be there. Davis had to file as a write-in candidate after he failed to gather enough candidate petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. Since he filed with the Hamilton County Board of Elections as an official write-in candidate, ballots cast for Davis will be counted.
In the three-candidate race for the unexpired term, Pamela Bowers, the incumbent who was appointed to the board in March, faces a challenge from Gary Favors and Steve Megerle.
The unexpired term runs through the end of 2021.
No party designations appear on the ballot, but both the Hamilton County Democratic and Republican parties have endorsed the candidates. The Democrats have endorsed Davis, Bolton, Jones and Bowers. Republicans have endorsed Gary Favors and Heather M. Couch.
Leading up to Election Day, WVXU ran a series on the candidates' positions on major issues. All but Heather Couch responded to WVXU's questions. You can read their thoughts on the following:
- 2019 School Board Candidates On Equity
- 2019 School Board Candidates On Funding
- 2019 School Board Candidates On Transportation
- 2019 School Board Candidates On Neighborhood Schools
Tuesday night, tune into to 9.17 WVXU/88.5 WMUB and visit wvxu.org for results.
