Common-sense conservative candidates, spotlighted by WAGOP, sweep school boards in Mead and Puyallup

Bellevue—Common-sense conservatives, supported and highlighted by the WAGOP, won big in last week’s elections, with Mead and Puyallup school boards securing conservative majorities. The Mead School Board, which serves north Spokane County, now holds a four-person conservative majority on its five-person board. “We were attacked as bringing partisanship into the race, but really it’s the opposite,” said winner Alan Nolan, …

Jaime Stacy, left, and Jennifer Killman are running for Mead School Board District 3 in the November 2023 election. (Courtesy photos)

Candidates to replace longtime incumbent on Mead School Board differ on funding, diversity issues

Mead School District voters have a choice in November to either elect a progressive focused on inclusion of students of all backgrounds or a conservative concerned that state-required diversity standards may harm the academic performance of students. Though Jaime Stacy and Jennifer Killman are both mothers with children in Mead schools, they represent a stark contrast in their pursuit of …

The races for Central Valley School Board were still too close to call the day after the Nov. 7 election.

Incumbents fared well in Inland Northwest school board races, but conservative newcomers took the lead in Mead

This election season saw more candidates interested in school boards than anything we’ve seen in recent history. What in the past was often an easy, uncontested race for reelection, became a battleground that many candidates hadn’t faced before. In the primaries, the Medical Lake School Board recorded the most candidates of any district throughout the state, with 17 people vying for …