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Who’s running for Kansas City-area school boards?: April 4 primary election primer

Melissa Mairs-King/KSHB

Voters will head to the polls Tuesday, April 4, 2023, for a primary election, which will narrow the field in several races to the top three candidates.

By: Dre Bradley

Posted at 5:12 PM, Apr 03, 2023

and last updated 2023-04-03 18:40:09-04

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Voters will head to the polls Tuesday for a primary election, which will narrow the field in several Board of Education races to the top three candidates.

Each candidate will serve a three-year term.

All voters in and around the Kansas City, Missouri, area will weigh in on the school board races, which handle many aspects of public education from finance and operations to performance and outcomes.

Here are the candidates who are running for each race, and included are answers from questionnaires KSHB 41 News sent out to candidates and links to the candidates’ Facebook pages:

FORT OSAGE

Kress Cambers, Kyle A. Leeds, Dustin Schnakenberg, Kelly K. Scott, David Shrout and Stephanie Watson

Read the candidate questionnaire

GRANDVIEW

JohnMark Bell, Damon Greene, Monica Terry, Patricia Smith and Stacy Wright

Read the candidate questionnaire

HARRISONVILLE

Paul W. Bartlett, Michael Culpepper, Ashley Franklin, Benjamin Johnson, Bing Schimmelpfenning and Nancy Shelton

Read the candidate questionnaire

HICKMAN MILLS

Irene Kendrick, Clifford Ragan III, Byron Townsend and Brandon Wright

Read the candidate questionnaire