“So school boards are actually really, really important. So the way we think about it is we have our Department of Education from the federal government,” she says. “We have usually your state education — so in North Carolina, it’s the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction — and then each kind of school district has a school board.”
In Forsyth County, the board of education is made up of nine members elected to four-year terms with no term limits. There are two seats for District 1, four seats for District 2, and three at-large seats. It’s a similar setup in other counties.
Elisabeth Motsinger and Marilyn Parker both serve on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education and aren’t running for re-election. Motsinger has been on the board for 16 years, and Parker for 21. The two board members, with decades of experience between them, broke down some of the main responsibilities of the board.
“I think if you want the one-sent