There are four open school board seats, and this race is not done with instant runoff, you just vote for four people and the top four vote-getters win.
On the ballot:
Zuki Ellis (incumbent)
Chauntyll Allen (incumbent, DFL-endorsed)
Yusef Carillo (DFL-endorsed and not an incumbent but he served on the school board previously to fill out Marchese’s term)
Erica Valliant (DFL-endorsed)
Carlo Franco (DFL-endorsed)
Gita Zeitler
Abdi Omer
Sahan Journal did interviews with every candidate. There was a LWV forum that Zuki Ellis, Chauntyll Allen, Yusef Carillo, and Carlo Franco all attended but the others did not; you can also see the screening interview done by SPFE with Yusef, Erica, and Carlo (although I didn’t get very far because FB video is so frustrating to watch for anything long-form — there’s no easy way to skip forward/backward).
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