With a sigh of relief, incumbent Felicia Ortiz put her hand over her chest and looked up from a laptop. The screen showed she was the leader in the State Board of Education District 3 race. She finished the night with 46.3 percent of primary election votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting.
Michael Wixom, an 11-year incumbent on Nevada’s higher education board, lost to a candidate who didn’t raise or spend any money to fund his campaign, as Patrick Carter pulled off the upset in their District 6 race.
Outspending Clark County School Board President Linda Young and securing endorsements from the local teachers and support staff unions failed to help Adam Johnson win enough votes in Tuesday’s primary election to earn a spot on November’s general ballot.
The attorney general’s office Tuesday asked the Nevada Supreme Court to postpone oral arguments in the highly watched school choice case because the state’s hired legal counsel will be out of the country on July 8.
A committee of two dozen community, education and political leaders soon will decide how best to carve the Clark County School District into smaller local precincts.
