School board elections: turnout low, but rising in places

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Although last week’s school board elections had extremely low voter turnout, one education group points out this year’s numbers rose in many prominent districts. It has been consistently said that only about 10% of eligible voters hit the polls in school board elections.  Of the 11 school districts that had races this year, just one, Delmar, hit that mark, with …