- Tally Ho’s: For the 2022 legislation session in Tallahassee, there’s a proposal to make school board elections partisan. Just what nobody needs: Even more partisan politics. Florida’s Constitution currently says county school board members must be elected in nonpartisan races. If the proposal (HJR 35) is approved, it would be on the ballot next November. Yet more Tally meddling in local government. It’s more than the counterproductive countermanding of school district mask mandates that protect students.
Also, partisan school board elections—even though everybody knows who’s a D and who’s an R—would disenfranchise some voters because of Florida’s closed primary system. The NPAs would be shut out of primaries. School board races should remain as non-partisan as possible. No surprise that that’s not a Tallahassee priority.