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Guilford School Board votes against using same district lines as commissioners

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published November 9, 2021 at 10:22 AM EST
"Map F" as approved by the Guilford County Commissioners. The county school board is looking at alternatives. Screenshot image from guilfordcountync.gov

The Guilford County School Board has rejected a resolution to use the same district map as county commissioners for the next election. The school board voted 6-3 against the commissioners' map during a retreat Saturday.

Some school board members told the News & Record of Greensboro that they had only recently seen the revisions and didn't think they had enough time to make a decision. 

The newspaper reports that the Guilford Board of Elections has requested the school board's choice of maps by Nov. 18.

Candidate filings begin next month for the March elections.

Both the school and county boards have the same number of elected members including an at-large seat. The school board currently uses the same map as the commissioners, but they're not obligated to do so.
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Politics & Government redistricting2020 CensusGuilford County Schools
Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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