Seven apply to fill Goldman's vacant Wake school board seat

Cary, N.C. — Seven people have put their name in the running for the Wake County Board of Education seat left vacant by former member Debra Goldman.

Among them is Bill Fletcher, who spent more than a decade on the school board before an unsuccessful bid for state school superintendent in 2004.

Linda Gunter, a lobbyist for the North Carolina Association of Educators, is also on the list.

Other names include Nancy Caggia, Lois Nixon, Anna Johnson, Jim Pomeranz and William Ingerslew.

The school board will interview the candidates Saturday, March 9 from 9:30 a.m. until 2:15 p.m. and then decide who will fill Goldman's seat until her term expires in November.

Goldman, who represented District 9 in western Wake County, resigned Feb. 3 to serve as executive director for a nonprofit group.

Her resignation was the second in the past several months.

Thomas Benton, of Zebulon, was named earlier this month to fill Chris Malone's District 1 seat.

Malone left in December for the state House of Representatives.

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If they have no kid in public school while working full time, none of them qualified.

tonnylee00
March 5, 2013 2:11 p.m.

Expertise in the field of education is precisely why a board separate from other government entities was created.

What? Maybe in your mind. The expertise in educating is the job of the school system employees, not the board. The board is to provide oversight and policy direction, based on the wishes of their constituients. They are there to keep the educators in touch with what the comminity wants.

btneast
February 25, 2013 6:20 p.m.

And you have a problem with the police investigating itself but, you don't have a problem with the schoolboard overseeing itself?!!!

That's the angle I am coming from.

btneast
February 25, 2013 6:17 p.m.

Is having people totally unfit to serve in board of education seats in the taxpayers best interest?

That's up to the voters in a given district as to who they think is fit. The board is a representation of the publics wishes as to how their schools are run.

btneast
February 25, 2013 6:16 p.m.

By the way, non-democrats need not apply!!

stymieindurham
February 25, 2013 5:22 p.m.