Five women — Stacy Hall, Amit Hickman, Sarah Kelsey, Rachel McQuillen and Carolyn Pitches — have chosen to run for the Fairfax City school board this November. It is the first time in years the board is poised to have only women at the helm on the five-person board.
In Fairfax City, this year’s candidates are all White women. There are no people of color on the board.Pitches, 52, said she contacted people from across the community, asking them to run when current members Jon Buttram, Bob Reinsel, Toby Sorensen and Mitch Sutterfield decided this would be their last term.“When you serve in an elected position, it’s work, it’s time and for a lot of people with children and who have jobs, it’s a sacrifice,” Pitches said.
John Singleton, a University of Rochester economics professor who researches school boards, said communities across the United States face this problem. “It’s likely true that school boards are generally unrepresentative of the communities that they serve,” Singleton said. “In general, they're going to be more affluent. In general, they're going to be more White.”
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