Sarasota County School Board Candidates Bridget Ziegler, Tim Enos, and Robin Marinelli Ready win their elections in a conservative pure range.
C 94 of Reporting 99 precincts, Ziegler leading with 55.98% of in the votes of Enos and Marinelli approximately 52% each of in vote. Republican voters dominated Election Day voters, beating Democrats 3-1, which helped party overcome the early democratic mail shortage ballots.
AT one of largest nonpartisan elections area ever seen voters cast their ballots for them pick of six candidates for three places. District 1 has an incumbent Ziegler faced Downiel Singleton; in District 4, Marinelli faced Lauren Curnow; as well as in District 5, Enos faced Nora Chitek.
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District 4 and 5 races will determine who replacing retiring liberal school board members Shirley Brown and Jane Goodwin, respectively. With three of five places up for elections in this cycle, voting control of in board was up for enough on bulletin.
Although the Florida school board non-partisan seats, debates over questions from critical race parental rights theory in education became highly polarized. This year, both the local Democratic and Republican parties have made public support for candidates, and campaign deposits poured in in at an unprecedented level. Both sides seek to control education policy in county with over 45,000 students and almost 5,400 employees.
Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party of Sarasota County supported Ziegler, Enos, and Marinelli, who were dubbed “ZEM” by supporters. DeSantis even came to Sarasota for a rally for candidates, calling on voters will come in crowds to flip the blackboard.
With another side, Singleton, Kurnov, and Sitek were supported by the Sarasota County Democratic Party. Kurnov and Chitek were also approved by the Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association, the local teacher association. union.
School Board Members elected up to fouryear terms and although they represent geographic areas on in the board voters across the county ballots in in race. Their salary is $43,043 per year.
District 1
Ziegler: 55.98% Singleton: 44.02%
Ziegler, who seems ready for win another term on the school board has become national and national leader in conservative education politics. She continued to be on front lines of protection for parental rights and had a hand in parents account of Rights Act signed by the Governor in 2021.
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singleton, and former teacher and current non-profit worker in Sarasota, was an alumnus of Sarasota public schools. She became first Black school board member in district history. She and Ziegler were head to head in campaign finance, both raised about $140,000. in contributions.
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District 4
Marinelli: 52.44% Curnov: 47.56%
Kurnov, who supported local teachers union and the Democratic Party of Sarasota County raised the most money of anyone on vote with nearly $250,000. Previously, she was Assistant Vice President and director of student success in university of Sarasota-Manatee from South Florida and educational consultant at New College. of Florida. She has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD in education from USF.
Marinelli worked as a teacher for age five, school counselor at Southside Elementary School for 20 years old, was a district level administrator, supervised student Services for Sarasota County for 15 years.
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District 5
Enos 52.31% Sitek: 47.69%
Enos was in charge of Sarasota County Schools Police Department. Now he is an executive director on Florida Association of School Resource Officers and have testified before the State Legislature. on best school safety training after shooting in Parkland.
Graduate of Florida State University with bachelor degree in finance, Enos said he was uniquely qualified serve on school board. For 22 of he is 32 years old of law enforcement experience he worked with school district directly, he said. In my time with district police force he said he was in every school in county and tested their classes first-hand.
Cytek moved to area three years ago from Schenectady, New York. She previously worked special an education teacher; and a director and deputy director.
