Georgia senators on Wednesday passed a measure that would make school board elections nonpartisan in the state’s largest school district, a Republican power play that overrode the opposition of the mostly Democratic lawmakers representing Gwinnett County.
The Senate voted 32-21 for Senate Bill 369, which would take effect for this year’s school board elections in Gwinnett County. They would take place in May, when Georgia holds nonpartisan elections, instead of in the November partisan general election. The measure moves to the House for more debate.
“The education of our children should be a nonpartisan issue,” said the bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Clint Dixon of Buford. “Let’s get politics out of our schools and once again focus on educating our children.”
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